The project "Active citizens (s) and share capital in Brindisi" it was developed by a network of associations, organizations and representations, with the AUSER as leader.
The project aims to bring out new opportunities for engagement in active citizenship; to raise critical awareness, social bond and solidarity on issues still addressed in a fragmentary and marginal way in society.
It provides for the implementation of activities on four axes: inter-gender axis, inter-generation axis, inter-culture axis, social communication axis, the latter transversal to the first three.
The project is funded by the Puglia Region as part of the “Regional program for the promotion of the social capital of local communities in support of the area's social plans”.
The “Io Donna” association is part of the aforementioned network and takes care of the activities of the inter-gender axis.
The “Io Donna” association has been active for decades on issues of male violence against women and on the criticism of the role of women in society. It coordinates with other similar associations in Puglia; adheres to the national association D.i.Re, (Women on the net against violence), which brings together over 70 anti-violence centers and shelter homes from as many Italian cities.
Since 1991 it has managed an Anti-violence Center in Brindisi which adopts a gender vision in the analysis of the phenomenon and in the methodology of welcoming women, to whom it offers support in cases of physical, psychological, sexual, economic violence, stalking, mobbing, etc.
At the same time, it intervenes on the causes and consequences of male violence against women through information, awareness and training actions. The goal is to indicate new visions and ways of relations between women and men based on equality, respect and recognition.
The patriarchal system has determined power structures, family structures, hierarchical and excluding sexual roles and identities, functional to one's own preservation.
There are still many unresolved issues of the heavy patriarchal inheritance: male violence against women, heterosexuality imposed as the only sexual orientation, the social marginalization of homosexuality, lesbianism and transsexuality, the definition of gender on an exclusively biological basis, stigma towards any "difference".
Conduct research, elaboration, questioning of models and stereotypes, of language criticism; recognizing within oneself and in the social body the existence of introjections and resistances, but also of new needs, desires and rights is the strategy to advance that process of transformation triggered by the feminist, lesbian, homosexual, transsexual and queer movements that have settled on the scene social since the second half of the last century.
The workshops are proposed along this line with the aim of developing knowledge, comparison and awareness among the participants, thanks also to the presence of social actors already active and involved in the issues in question: some teachers of the Interdepartmental Center for Studies on Gender Culture of the University of Bari, feminist and lesbian associations, the male self-awareness group, the precious testimony of individuals.
Il initial workshop introduces a question common to the following ones, language: words, meanings, ways and purposes of use (hate speech), construction of new words in relation to genders and sexual orientations.
I three laboratories successive ones address and connect the critical points of the construction of gender identities and the recognition of sexual orientations: needs, desires, rights not yet accepted and sanctioned.
Participants
Men and women interested in questioning gender identities and sexual orientations in symbolic, relational and social terms will participate.
The workshops will end with a public meeting which will be attended by the teachers of the Interdepartmental Center for Studies on Gender Culture of the University of Bari, the "Io donna" Association, the ArciLesbica, the Plural Male Association, the Coordinator of the project.
Program
The workshops will be held from 17.30 to 19.30 at the CSV Poiesis headquarters in Piazza Di Summa in Brindisi.
Registration is free and essential to access the workshops; participation in all scheduled meetings is required.
1.Laboratory: Language has a gender
3 December 2015
"Language is a name for our doing: it is both "what" we do, and the effects we cause, the act and its consequences . " Judith Butler.
The workshop focuses on how current language is not very adequate to express and give recognition to the requests of women and men committed to building new visions of genders and sexual orientations.
Dr. Rosita Belinda Maglie
Researcher in English and Translation, Department of Education, Psychology and Communication, University "Aldo Moro" Bari
2. Laboratory: "Let's find out ”the genders,“ Let's find out ”the sexual orientations
The workshop focuses on the cultural contents and the methods of construction of genders and sexual orientations. It is divided into three meetings:
The construction of femininity and female freedom
10 December 2015
Prof. Rosa Gallelli
Teacher of Didactics, Coordinator of the Interdepartmental Center for Studies on Gender Culture, University "Aldo Moro" Bari
"Disobedient" sexuality: homosexuality, lesbianism, transsexuality.
17 December 2015
Prof. Alessandro Taurino
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Education, Psychology, Communication at the Degree Course in Psychological Sciences and Techniques, University "Aldo Moro" Bari
Monica Dragon
ArciLesbica activist
Transgenitoriality, Elena's testimony
The construction of masculinity and the masculine question
14 January 2016
Dr. Orazio Leggiero
National Association Male Plural, Group of Men at Play, Bari
Final meeting
5 February 2016, Former Monastery Via Santa Chiara 6, Brindisi.
We “discover” genders and sexuality in the path of an active and conscious citizenship project.
Speakers:
Association "Io donna"
Prof. Rosa Gallelli
Dr. Rosita Belinda Maglie
Dr. Orazio Leggiero
Prof. Alessandro Taurino
Monica Dragon
Coordinator of the "Active Citizens and Social Capital" Project