diff --git a/content/session/undoingdivisioncarer.md b/content/session/undoingdivisioncarer.md index c53b636..b441b8e 100644 --- a/content/session/undoingdivisioncarer.md +++ b/content/session/undoingdivisioncarer.md @@ -30,16 +30,25 @@ Participants read aloud: **Step 2: Let’s talk about how we talk** Share mixed experiences, lessons learned, and strategies of the activist group / organization as well as those of the activists, related to sexism and racism. Look into: + (1) unstructured, spontaneous or ad hoc conversations around sexism and/or racism, + (2) internal organizational mechanisms for responding to denounced instances of sexism/racism on the ship, + (3) conversations among carers (crew) and cared for (guests) that touch issues of sexism/racism, + (4) interventions of the carers (crew) in situations of sexism/racism among cared for-s (guests), and + (5) working groups active on the issues of sexism/racism. Give examples. Open for discussion. **Step 3: Guests and hosts** Explain the constraints on the undoing of the carer/cared for division. On the Sea Watch 3, these are: + (1) temporal dimension of the relationship between the crew and the guests on board – short time spans, at least before the times of long stand-offs, + (2) logistical, skilled workload, security and safety issues that are basis for control mechanisms (e.g. taking away lighters from guests, not allowing them to certain spaces in/on the ship, not including them in work that requires specific skills) and coordination mechanisms, and + (3) issues of psychosocial and physical vulnerability – different survivors need different care, all carry traumas, some require specific medical care… + Think which of these, and to what extent, should and can be undone or modified in a way that introduces more mutuality, and which should not and/or cannot. Examples of challenging the clean division of recipients and givers of care on the ship: including guests in the searching for boats in distress with binoculars, in ship maintenance tasks and preparation of meals. \ No newline at end of file