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Critical Life, Spring
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Disciplining works through inclusion and exclusion, whereby control works as everyone is included, but how?
So, discipline is interested in a kind of self/other/subject/object construction, whereby control is thinking about these micro-states of differentiation.
... because while discipline works at the level of identity, control works at the level of intensity.
Discipline and control are mutually entwined with each other and they are perhaps incoherent and disjunctive to each other, but are not necessarily incompatible. And they are produced through feedback loops and not in the kind of teleological progression...
This is Jasbir Puar whom you will soon hear/watch/read in the serial Sources of Epistemology: Critical Life, just after Wendy Brown who has already been announced.
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Support Matters!
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Jefimija
„General support from RWF is the essential support to our organization, especially in times when all women’s human rights that we seem to have had and support for realizing them are in danger of being abolished through various recurrences of dangerous social trends we see in Serbia at the moment.
RWF’s support enabled us to feel much more comfortable regarding successful realization of our programme of regular activities. At the same time, this support also implies the development of the organization. Therefore, we have overcome the developmental crisis due to both financial and logistic support through talks and new perspectives – i.e. general support fully reached its goal. The result is an organization with strengthened human resources and clear goals and objectives. General support gives us the freedom from making any kind of compromises that would be against our mission.
Equally important is the fact that this support makes it possible for us to plan our work through budget and not only through projects, which became very hard since, for various reasons, it is becoming more and more difficult to obtain support for projects. It feels good when your task is to move forward, to grow, and you have enough space and „air” to make such effort without too much strain and losing breath.
If you work without the pressure of uncertainty whether you would be able to cover the expenses in near future, then you have a chance to work productively. And then you can also achieve a lot. That’s what this support means to us.”
Slavica Simić, Counseling for Women with Breast Cancer „Jefimija“
SOS Hotline for Women and Children Victims of Violence, Vlasotince
Your support provides sustainability, safety, higher capacity of the organization and efficiency in realizing certain activities. Thanks to the support, we efficiently and professionally hold workshops in schools and in our office. It's very important to us to achieve high quality of planned activities – which are the highest priority of our organization – without worrying whether we are financially safe. Without your support, we wouldn't be able to realize workshops and motivate young persons to attend them.
Svetlana Šarić, SOS Hotline for Women and Children Victims of Violence, Vlasotince
Roma Center for Women and Children Daje
General support from RWS is important for our team since we know we can make a plan for the whole year and realize it with dedication. It means that we can make long-term plans and bring a process to en and and reach a tangible result. That’s how it was in the processes of providing psychological support to women, work with institutions, providing documents and monitoring court proceedings. General support enable us to prolong our work in certain settlements where it is needed.
On the personal level it provides our fees and thus gives the stability to our team, since each of us can plan her development and obtaining new knowledge and skills.
General support was the most helpful in making our work safe, recognizable, sustainable, as well as in networking and gaining acknowledgement.
Nada Đuričković, Roma Center for Women and Children Daje
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Floods 2014-2016
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Reconstruction Women's Fund started interventions in the field and informative fundraising actions “Sisters Are Doing It Best” as our form of rebellion against arrogance and spreading fear during floods in May: by the Church that blamed LGBT for the scourge of floods, by nationalist conservatives who wanted women to make corn breads for men working at embankments, by the State that censored exchange of information and thoughts among citizens. Our policy of solidarity has always been based on activism, cooperation, information sharing, inclusion and learning from each other, and these are ours and experiences of our closest collaborators.
When it all started, we entered a big invisible world – a world of displaced and expelled people, people who experienced floods or fires more than once, people who grew old and deprived of their rights, people with asthmatic children, with cancers, heart attacks, a world of widows, of families with many members. Living conditions in these settlements at the periphery are bad and poor. One can see the long history of negligence and exclusion, and the options these people can choose from are either to remain invisible or to get into danger. They fight for themselves by themselves alone. Our interventions are unexpected for them, and unusual for us: from buying a crib, looking for a chimney sweep, building a roof on tall pillars over a ramshackle house, lobbying for a channel to be cleaned, to finding accommodation and trying to stop the obstructions of the repairs we did.
This is the report that kept growing during the two years of our work, and we are proud to share it with you: http://www.rwfund.org/kriticne-teme/poplave-2014-2016/poplave-2014-2016/
We are also presenting you the publication about the cooperation of (then) students of architecture with Reconstruction Women's Fund: A Model of Temporary Housing. From Concept to Realization: The Roma Settlement Example. We published the printed edition of this publication in January 2016, and virtual edition was published at the RWF website - http://www.rwfund.org/2016/01/25/model-privremenog-stanovanja-od-koncepta-do-realizacije-na-primeru-romskog-naselja/
This book has a life of its own. This group of students who worked with us, today graduated architects already, was invited to present their project at the BINA (Belgrade Architecture Week) exhibition in May. In the meantime, their work was presented and awarded in the category Experiment/Research at the Salon of Architecture in the Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade. For the sake of all of us, it is good to see this profession recognizing what it should really do.
We are very grateful to the Oak Foundation. Without its financial support, the activities we realized would be impossible. We would like to thank the Oak Foundation for the trust and recognition, as well as for the support we got when we needed it the most.
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Meaningful and powerful circle!
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Reconstruction Women's Fund develops the programme line Feminist Philanthropy through researching, learning about and applying the best ways to raise money for women and women's groups. Our action Sisters Are Doing It Best aims at supporting a specific person or a family in different troublesome situations.
We need to draw the public attention to the importance of the only local women's foundation that, throughout the 11 years of its work, distributes money across Serbia. Also, we need to open up towards others, to share our experiences and needs, and get heard by more people who could spare small donations to support the work of a women's group, a stipend for a woman or to invest into actions that mean a lot.
Every month we organize donation suppers in order to connect with our friends and maybe meet some new people who might come along with our friends and open new horizons! Exchange of information and advices is precious.
We are glad when after these meetings we get new individual donors who believe in our efforts to change the world and make it a place where women live better. Small donations from more and more people make our circle powerful and meaningful, and we are inviting you to join us and donate too!
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