Please remove if this is not a community to have this discussion.
I am a white cis het man living in the USA.
I am considering starting a local in-person group for white men to process their integration of feminism, anti-racism, decolonization, queerism, and anti-capitalism.
My intention is to support the process of liberating along those lines by reducing reactionary resistance, developing more traitors to the power structures, developing more effective allyship, and healing individual humans through community building, education, compassion, and support.
Has anyone done anything like this or seen it done or have any guidance or critique on this?
Thanks for the feedback and well wishes. Yes, I see it as a stepping stone and not a stopping point. My perception is that there is resistance that these men need to overcome in themselves and doing difficult work like that is easier with support. However, a group of white men can never be the source of all the stimulus needed to embark on the deconstruction that is needed.
I see it as a place that white men will return to over and over once they get over their initial resistance, because as they become less resistant they will find themselves encountering more things that trigger that resistance and make them uncomfortable, so I would like to be a place where they can process that as they deconsruct.
And finally, I would like to have those men who are further along in the journey come back to provide support to the men who are just beginning that journey, both as a way of developing themselves and also as a way of keeping bad actors from having major effects. I don’t imagine myself to be the only person who would be responsible for the immune system.
Your words are making me think more about the types of bad actors, their intents, and their methods. Thank you.