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Purpose

Beyond Patriarchy hosts collective learning journeys to explore how patriarchy shapes our lives, relationships, and ways of organising — and what it takes to unlearn them in practice.

The journey is for you if you want to:

• Explore how patriarchy shapes your relationship to yourself, others, and the world around us
• Share responsibility for impact and harm without collapsing into guilt, shame, or defensiveness
• Envision and practice new ways of being and relating
• Learn alongside others through shared reflection, dialogue, embodied practice and real-life experimentation

This journey may not be for you if you’re looking for:

• Quick fixes, certainty, or techniques without deeper questioning.
• Debate or purely intellectual critique.
• A space without accountability for impact.
• Therapy or personal crisis support.

You don’t need to have the ‘correct language’ or ‘answers’ — but a willingness to engage, reflect, and stay present is essential.

While open to all, we place particular emphasis on engaging men*, where patriarchal patterns are often most normalised and least questioned, supporting responsibility, repair, and more just ways of being together.

* Men and persons who have been socialised as boys or men.

Acknowledgments

This work stands on the shoulders of many others. It builds on generations of feminist, queer, anti-racist, Indigenous, and decolonial thinkers, practitioners, and organisers — and, more importantly, on the lived labour of those who have resisted patriarchy while bearing its greatest harms. Any clarity or possibility that has emerged here is indebted to those histories, struggles, and forms of care, even where they are only partially named.

Special thanks to collaborators at C*SPACE, Democratic Society, CitizensLab, Ulex Project and the Generative Journalism Alliance alongside several close allies and partners who support inspire and inform this work.