Critical Readings book club advances with Judith Butler's Undoing Gender book.

In this meeting we will read:

• Chapter 4 'Undiagnosing Gender' (24 pages),
• Chapter 5 'Is Kinship Already Heterosexual?' (26 pages).

It is not necessary to have read the previous chapterts to come to the meeting, neither is necessary to have read the chapters 4 and 5, although it is recommended in order to participate in the discussion.

Both chapters will be resumed and presented by usual attendants of the group, and a collective-based discussion will follow.

The DIY Publishing workshop is an opportunity to bring together ideas on passing on a message to others. The message can be of a varied nature – artistic, informative, political – whatever your interest is. The aim is to make your voice heard while keeping the budget low. Moreover, an opportunity for collaboration in blogging and zine publishing will be presented to those interested

The recent protests in the USA brought into the mainstream the demands to reform, defund or even abolish the police. Let’s read a some articles on the topic, present the main ideas in a way similar to our book readings and discuss them!

Five adolescents of good family, enamored with the occult, commit a savage crime. A man called 'The Captain' takes them in charge for a repressive cruise on a haunted, dilapidated sailboat. Exhausted by the methods of the Captain, the five boys prepare to mutiny. After arriving on a lush island with dangers and pleasures abound, the boys start to transform in both mind and body.

A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.
Scientists predict we may lose half the species on the planet by the end of the century. They believe we have entered the sixth major extinction event in Earth's history. Number five took out the dinosaurs. This era is called the Anthropocene, or 'Age of Man', because the evidence shows that humanity has sparked this catastrophic loss. We are the only ones who can stop it as well.

Join us for a film with English subtitles. An informal discussion will follow.

This is the tale of a young woman growing up in the age of the internet, turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, challenging you on what a woman „should be“. Through her fragmented personalities you see the emergence of a generation, in which the concept of a fixed identity has grown old.

We continue to read Judith Butler's Undoing Gender book.
In this meeting, we will discuss Chapter 3 "Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality" and an additional text or article that will be decided soon.

Attendants are asked to read the text before coming to the meeting, although anyone can attend the meeting even without reading the chapters, but doing so is recommended to participate in the discussion.

At the end of the meeting, we decide which chapters to read for the next meeting, additional texts, and who will present them.

Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation.

In the next one, we will present and discuss:

Chapter 1 "Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy" - 23 book pages
Chapter 2 "Gender Regulations" - 17 pages

Critical Readings book reading club starts again on Kampus Hybernská with a new text: Undoing Gender from Judith Butler. This book forms the basis of an understanding of how a body becomes gendered, how grief is experienced, how we are built and dissembled and how that experiences informs our bodies, our lives, our genders. It teaches us that we are related and relational and that gender sits at the center of the phenomenon of being.

In this meeting we will try to set up a safe space created for the reflexion of masculinity in our society and the consequences in the oppression of woman, man themselves, or anyone. This exercise aims to highlight toxic behaviour of men, which has been idolized by our patriarchal society through history. The program will be developed in the following order: 1. Introduction and motivations. 2. Characteristics of toxic masculinity. 3. Examples of masculine role models and how they are perceived in society. 4. Personal cases of toxic masculinity. 5. Open discussion.