The Feminist Business Model Canvas — the very first tool to help you bring feminist values into your business— was designed in 2015 to help construct a feminist revenue model in a “greenfield” context. The premise behind the tool was that designing from a deliberately feminist perspective would help us create a business that defied the oppression built into conventional business as well as to resist the oppressive dynamics in our larger culture.
Alas, too many of us find that within our current markets and industries we have to build our businesses in a “brownfield” world, a world already struggling with kyriarchy-- the master nexus of all systems of oppression (including and not limited to racism, sexism, colonialism, ableism, ageism, extractivism, and more.) How can we dismantle these oppressive systems at the same time as we build our feminist enterprises?
Address the obstacles of today as we build the businesses of the #FeministFuture.
Join us for a zoom-based interactive workshop on Monday Nov. 2 7 ET/6 CT to 9:30 ET/8:30 CT.
Since we are building our feminist businesses in a world currently struggling with kyriarchy-- the master nexus of all systems of oppression -- we need to build our businesses to fight oppressions now.
Building on top of the Feminist Business Model Canvas, we'll draw from five main anti-oppression movements (feminism, anti-racism, anti-classism, decolonization (anti-settler colonialism), and anthropocentrism) to identify practices that can address any form of dominance regardless of its current system of justification.
This will entail, particularly, that we critique ways that business themselves justify some people having power over so many others. We'll face the fact that oppressing and dominating others is how we've been taught to extract financial value from other human beings.
When we're done, we'll have developed and tested -- together -- the latest expansion of the Feminist Business Model Canvas - the Anti-Oppression Lens For Feminist Enterprises.
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Preparation:
Readings: In advance of the sessions, participants will receive a brief introduction to defining a feminist business and a (condensed) version of the Feminist Business Model Canvas (FBMC). Participants will need to read these materials and become familiar with the concept of a feminist revenue model so that we can move directly to anti-oppression practices in the workshop. Plan to spend between 30 and 60 minutes to review the FBMC download and consider how it describes your current business.
Google Docs: Participants will also need to make sure they can access and use Google Docs.... here's a link to a test page so you can try this out!
These materials will be shared with participants a week before the workshop.
Followup:
As part of their commitment to learn within the session and with other learners, participants will be asked to share their feedback about how to make the session better.
Following feminist teaching/ learning praxis, participants will also be invited to follow a guided, private self-reflection on their participation, their standpoint, and what they learned.
All participants will receive a list of resources to continue your learning after the workshop.
Tiered Tickets for Feminist Pricing
To recognize the value of the work that will go into this workshop, and to address our feminist commitment to making learning more accessible financially, tickets are available at five price levels: Solidarity, GiftExchange, Seed, Nourish, and Grow. Details on the ticket page.
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