Spring opened in Palma with the opening of a gap for critical thinking from feminisms around artistic practice and cultural production as devices for intervention in socio-political change. Between March 29 and April 14 we could enjoy Feminisms, the other inappropriate, the module dedicated to this issue in the training and research program of the n the training and research program of the Museu Baluard, in its second edition after the success of the first one. It thus constituted a space for reflection for people from the fields of humanities, artistic practice, public policy, cultural production and management, activists and people linked to social movements or committed to social change, interested in research and collective action around practices of crisis repair and the imagination of possible futures.
Fina Birulés comments, in reference to Butler’s theories, that the polemic produces the richness of feminist thought: questioning what we take for granted, as valid and immovable, has the potential for social transformation. ntains the potential for social transformation. It is a matter of approaching the conflict from critical thinking, opening up questions that cannot be answered individually, but that demand collective reflection, revision, criticism and self-criticism. Welcoming, precisely, the diversity of discourses around feminisms (and their tensions), the module sought to dialogue and debate, identify processes of struggle and practices of resistance relevant to overcoming gender inequalities in a context of crisis of neoliberalism and democracies.
The module of this edition opened with a seminar open to the general public (not only students of the module), by Silvia Federici, Feminism, social reproduction and the struggle for the commons, in which the relationship between patriarchy and capitalism and the need to turn towards forms of life more respectful of the environment and where life (and its sustainability) is put at the center, from ecofeminism, were put on the table. The module was also taught by Nuria Alabao, PhD in Anthropology and member of the Grup de Recerca sobre Exclusió i Control Socials of the University of Barcelona; Ana Dević, curator and educator; Marta Malo de Molina, translator and independent researcher; Gabi Ngcobo, artist, educator and curatorial director at the Javett Art Centre of the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP); and Brigitte Vasallo, writer and independent researcher.