LADYFEST BUCAREST, 12 - 14 October 2007

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Saturday, the 13^th of October, started with a famous [Vegan Baking]. After this, we had a nice introduction into [queer identities vs heteronormativity] which endet with the question: When did you notice that you are heterosexual?

Afterwards we had a great discussion about [non-hierarchical, feminist, non-violent communication and group organizing]. The questions were, how do we communicate in groups and how can we avoid hierarchy. There are always different forms of hierarchy and how can we handle with them. We should find out, which values we have in talks and discussions and how we can handle with the idea of rationality and reaching an aim. Networking and consensus decision making would be helpful, too. See under consensus decision making http://sfpirg.ca/index.cgi?d=&g=/pirg/resources.htm

The next workshop introduced is into the ideologie of [maternity and its social and political implications]. The discourse from media and society about this topic is occupied absolutly positive. But if you ask people with children you will hear other things, to have a baby is stressful, you will have no time for sleep and other things, the topics of your interest have to change, you get worse jobs, - it is not all as happy as to see in the official public. Women, who are older and without a child are seen as poor persons or as not normal. So this ideology includes a lot of the structuring of the society. The idea of "normality" is to see very strong along the discourse of maternity and has an own form of exclusion.

There followed more discussion about radical reading and women's work…

This night at the Punkoteca we had a nice offer for free vegan food, which was delicious – thanks a lot to the cooks! After that we had a very nice concert from THE FITS, a great swedish band who gave us a lot of dancing and fun. Unfortunatelly the second band, a romanian one, called of short-term. But we had for further dancing the great DJ PINKTROL, who gave us on and on dancing music trough the whole night.