Challenging Male Supremacy Project

How do we cultivate the capacity & commitment of men to end heteropatriarchy & more effectively contribute to organizing for social, environmental and transformative justice? Earlier this year, a group of cisgender (non-trans) male organizers in NYC completed a nine month "study-into-action" towards ending gender violence, transphobia, misogyny & heterosexism in our personal & political lives. The Challenging Male Supremacy Project organized this in partnership with feminist, queer & trans justice organizers who are working to end violence, create alternative forms of safety & accountability, &/or challenge the prison industrial complex. In this workshop, we will explore holistic education and leadership development practices that support men in understanding and confronting male supremacy in relation to other systems of oppression, in our own lives and histories, and in our communities. For us, this includes incorporating our whole selves and considering our own experiences of violence & trauma. We will also look at how this work can contribute to building liberatory responses to violence - in particular, how we can support initiatives that are often led by women & LGBTSTGNC people of color. Open to people of all gender identities.

Since the last USSF, generationFIVE, our allies, and partners have continued to hone a framework of transformative justice (TJ) as we work to offer alternatives to collusion with child sexual abuse (CSA) – and intimate, community, and state violence – as well as approaches for addressing violence and power within our movements and organizations. TJ is an approach that calls for individual as well as community accountability and transformation of the social conditions that perpetuate CSA. It seeks to provide survivors with immediate safety and long-term agency, healing and reparations while holding offenders of CSA accountable within and by their communities. This accountability includes stopping immediate abuse, making a commitment to not engage in future abuse, and offering reparations for past abuse. This session provides an overview of the Transformative Justice (TJ) framework and approach, as well as principles and practices that are informing work developing and partnering with emerging TJ collaboratives. During the session we will screen digital pieces that reflect intersections of intimate and state violence that necessitate a TJ approach. We will also use the principles and practices to review case studies that allow us to practice intervention in cases of child sexual abuse and others that practice intervention in campaigns or organizations towards orienting them away from a criminal legal approach and towards a TJ approach.

generationFIVE has been developing and experimenting with Transformative Justice for the last decade. Transformative Justice is a libratory approach to responding to and preventing intimate and community violence. We work to offer alternatives to collusion with child sexual abuse – and other forms of intimate, community, and state violence – as well as approaches for addressing violence and power within our movements and organizations. Transformative Justice seeks to deeply integrate personal and social transformation. Transformative Justice calls for individual as well as community accountability and transformation of the social conditions that perpetuate child sexual abuse and other forms of violence. We use a politicized understanding of trauma, healing, and typical community responses to intimate violence to inform our organizing. We also look to how we can engage individual and community resilience to make all of our work more powerful and transformative. In this workshop we will learn about how to apply these understandings of trauma, resilience and healing to ourselves, our organizing work and within our organizations. We will explore somatic practices to support this, and help answer the questions of how and what we need to practice to align with TJ politics and principles.

How do we cultivate the capacity & commitment of men to end heteropatriarchy & more effectively contribute to organizing for social, environmental and transformative justice? Earlier this year, a group of cisgender (non-trans) male organizers in NYC completed a nine month "study-into-action" towards ending gender violence, transphobia, misogyny & heterosexism in our personal & political lives. The Challenging Male Supremacy Project organized this in partnership with feminist, queer & trans justice organizers who are working to end violence, create alternative forms of safety & accountability, &/or challenge the prison industrial complex. In this workshop, we will explore holistic education and leadership development practices that support men in understanding and confronting male supremacy in relation to other systems of oppression, in our own lives and histories, and in our communities. For us, this includes incorporating our whole selves and considering our own experiences of violence & trauma. We will also look at how this work can contribute to building liberatory responses to violence - in particular, how we can support initiatives that are often led by women & LGBTSTGNC people of color. Open to people of all gender identities.

Since the last USSF, generationFIVE, our allies, and partners have continued to hone a framework of transformative justice (TJ) as we work to offer alternatives to collusion with child sexual abuse (CSA) – and intimate, community, and state violence – as well as approaches for addressing violence and power within our movements and organizations. TJ is an approach that calls for individual as well as community accountability and transformation of the social conditions that perpetuate CSA. It seeks to provide survivors with immediate safety and long-term agency, healing and reparations while holding offenders of CSA accountable within and by their communities. This accountability includes stopping immediate abuse, making a commitment to not engage in future abuse, and offering reparations for past abuse. This session provides an overview of the Transformative Justice (TJ) framework and approach, as well as principles and practices that are informing work developing and partnering with emerging TJ collaboratives. During the session we will screen digital pieces that reflect intersections of intimate and state violence that necessitate a TJ approach. We will also use the principles and practices to review case studies that allow us to practice intervention in cases of child sexual abuse and others that practice intervention in campaigns or organizations towards orienting them away from a criminal legal approach and towards a TJ approach.

generationFIVE has been developing and experimenting with Transformative Justice for the last decade. Transformative Justice is a libratory approach to responding to and preventing intimate and community violence. We work to offer alternatives to collusion with child sexual abuse – and other forms of intimate, community, and state violence – as well as approaches for addressing violence and power within our movements and organizations. Transformative Justice seeks to deeply integrate personal and social transformation. Transformative Justice calls for individual as well as community accountability and transformation of the social conditions that perpetuate child sexual abuse and other forms of violence. We use a politicized understanding of trauma, healing, and typical community responses to intimate violence to inform our organizing. We also look to how we can engage individual and community resilience to make all of our work more powerful and transformative. In this workshop we will learn about how to apply these understandings of trauma, resilience and healing to ourselves, our organizing work and within our organizations. We will explore somatic practices to support this, and help answer the questions of how and what we need to practice to align with TJ politics and principles.