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Scenarios excercise

//Imane and dona

Scenario:
When starting an event everyone speaks about how they visited their family for a recent holiday. You are estranged from your family and spent the day alone.

* Equal rights

We advocate to the city and different funding bodies to provide the means so different spaces can be kept open during different holiday moments.
Moreover, inside our institution, when the is a public holiday that inloves some familial gatherings, we look out for events (public or not, things to do together or not) that are happening in the city to share them during meeting or via a specific email. Not target one specific individual but to share it as general information in solidarity with those who might not have good family ties and might end up spending the day alone or isolated.

* REVOLUTIONARY

We find a comunal way of living together ( like a farm ..)
We share all the means of care. We open the boundaries of our families in which care becomes a collectivized practice. There is no such things as nuclear family where you have parents and kids and such but we can all take different roles depending on needs and wishes.
We can throw out the (western) calendar structure, no more mothers day or christmas (controversial haha) and we invent our own calendar of festivities. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar we are on the 26th of the Windy month ]

* SUPREMACY

We organise collective readings around the book " Abolish family" by Sophie Lewis.
We critisize the privilege that is inherent in the classical family nucleus which provides a lot of benefits and 'glory' in current society. It is still very romanticised as the safe dreamy thing that people strive for, it is seen as a positive achievement. People with no kids always have to justify why for example.

* SEPARATISM

We decide to add in our working rules a new point: we cannot speak about families during collective meetings and events.

* DIFFERENTIAL

We decide to get in touch with other organisations and insitutions and see if we can built a network of hosting peers. We look into how the city could provide more welcoming events and spaces for people who are alone. We also try to be more aware on everybody family situations and to adjust certain modes of working when needed.

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also podcast by https://www.ugent.be/psync/nl/wie/vanheule_stijn
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