Weather you’re monogamous or not, super-experienced or just heard about polyamory/non-monogamy, communication can be one of the biggest issues in a relationship, so let’s talk about how we talk (or, too often, don’t talk enough). I’ll be presenting some communication approaches and tools, as well as how to develop better communication skills. I would like to focus on how we communicate especially in very intense emotional times, and some of the most common pitfalls that occur there.

This is a facilitated discussion, not a presentation, so you are kindly invited to participate and share as much or as little as you’d like from your experience. Just listening is also ok. Because the topic is so personal, I highly encourage a policy of what is shared in this event stays in the event.

Discussion will be in English, with consideration for non-native English speakers.
Facilitator has no formal training in related fields, just personal experience and determination to develop more ethical and sustainable ways of relating.

Meeting of Efling Union’s Organizing Division Field Organizer Team.

First reading circle of the year, hosted by Andspyrna, the anarchist library.

Texts:

• The power of women and the subversion of the community – Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James: https://libcom.org/library/power-women-subversion-community-della-costa-selma-james , Dalla Costa and James – Women and the Subversion of the Community (Pamphlet Layout).pdf , Dalla Costa and James – Women and the Subversion of the Community.pdf
• Let’s destroy work, lets destroy the economy – Alfredo M. Bonanno, p. 1- 19 (introduction + chapter “let’s destroy work”) : https://libcom.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-lets-destroy-work-lets-destroy-economy , Alfredo M. Bonanno – Let’s Destroy Work, Let’s Destroy the Economy.pdf

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Fyrsti leshringur ársins haldinn af Andspyrnu, bókasafni anarkista. Textar eru á ensku, umræður munu einnig fara fram á ensku. Hægt verður að fá aðstoð við þýðingu.

Bring your drum or whatever makes nice sound. Everyone is invited, feel free to pop by and drum along.

On Accessibility:

The event is open for everyone but not so accessible to people in wheelchairs.

“There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).

The bathrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). There is no bathroom on the ground floor.

Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral.”
-https://andrymi.org/accessibility/

Andspyrna’s reading circle will be held for the second time Sunday third of february. In our last session we read a marxist feminist text by Selma Jones and  Mariarosa Dalla Costa. We decided that for now the topic of our reading circle is the concept and reality of work, since it is one of the concepts that governs our everyday life and has a multitude of meanings. In later sessions we will explore the anarchist notion of the destruction of work and take a further look into a feminist analyses of work and capitalism.

In this upcoming session, however, we want to get a bit more familiar to Marx’s thought and are thus reading the introduction and first chapter of “How to read Marx?” by Peter Osborne.

Text source:
How to read Marx

Feel free to read further.

Discussions will be in English.

Closed meeting in the comfy room

Theme of the reading circles is the concept and reality of work.

Does work bind us or liberate us? What do we mean when we talk about work? How has capitalism affected our perception of work? What does government say about work? Can we destroy work? What would that even mean?

For 1st March we’ll read the article : Femonationalism and the “Regular” Army of Labor Called Migrant Women by Sara R. Farris

Reading material from earlier sessions are listed below:

• The power of women and subversion of community – Selma Jones and Maria della Costa
• How to read Marx – Peter Osborne