What happens when you realise the patterns you absorbed as a child – the ones that kept you alive – are the same ones now keeping you numb? In this conversation, Niels reflects on the ‘seed’ he planted during our learning journey: a commitment to finally feel patriarchy instead of just naming it, and theContinue reading ““Knowing when to speak up”: A generative interview with Niels Stabingh”
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“Risking the loss of male approval to do the right thing”: A generative interview with Sam Walby
What does it mean to be a parent and partner in a world shaped by patriarchy? In this conversation, Sam reflects on the ‘seed’ he planted during our learning journey: a commitment to unlearning inherited patterns of male entitlement and emotional distance, and the slow but necessary work of tending this when it no longerContinueContinue reading ““Risking the loss of male approval to do the right thing”: A generative interview with Sam Walby”
Revitalising radical popular education in European social movements
Introducing a new European project on revitalising radical popular education in European social movements
“I realised there’s a big difference between intellectual and embodied knowledge”: A generative interview with Valentin
In this conversation, Valentin reflects on the difference between understanding patriarchy intellectually and unlearning it in practice.
Resourcing the learning journeys: Thinking together about contributions
Beyond Patriarchy sits in a slightly awkward place economically — and we are still learning what it means to resource work like this well. This article shares how we currently think about financial contributions: what they are, what they support, why we hold them as negotiable, and how we arrived here.
Launching the first online men-only* learning journey
Over the past two years, Beyond Patriarchy has been holding men-only* learning journeys as one part of a wider inquiry around the question: What does it take to move beyond patriarchy — not just intellectually, but in the ways it shapes our relationships, bodies, and ways of organising? The next men-only* learning journey begins onlineContinueContinue reading “Launching the first online men-only* learning journey”