{"id":3000,"date":"2023-04-13T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T03:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metzineres.org\/el-22-i-23-dabril-les-metzineres-i-christina-schultz-hem-preparat-un-cap-de-setmana-ple-de-magia-i-esoterisme-el-proper-dissabte-dia-22-lestranger-espai-cultural-situat-a\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T03:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T03:02:18","slug":"moving-together-towards-an-anti-prohibitionist-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metzineres.org\/en\/moving-together-towards-an-anti-prohibitionist-feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving together towards an anti-prohibitionist feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Something magical has sprouted for four days in the middle of an orange grove. In a residence turned refuge, adjacent to the Albufera Natural Park (Valencia), more than fifteen women have come together towards multiple universes yet to be created.<\/h4>\n

Until now known as\u00a0Red de Mujeres Antiprohibicionistas\u00a0<\/strong>(REMA) has held its\u00a0first face-to-face meeting<\/strong>\u00a0with the collectives and organisations* that currently make it up in order to lay the cards of its present and its future on the table.<\/p>\n

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However, the past is also worth remembering. The birth of REMA, in\u00a02016<\/strong>, came about as a result of a meeting of women linked to the cannabis sector: El Encuentro de Mujeres Cann\u00e1bicas. Some of these women are the ones who have made it possible that, between periods of greater and lesser activity, the network has been welcoming new groups focused in one way or another on the drugs field, beyond the world of cannabis \u2013for example, Sot a Terra, whose members have been presented for the first time at this meeting.<\/p>\n

What we have done, meeting and colluding together, has also been forbidden to us at many times in history and in many places around the world. Those who have persecuted and penalised us have always known how much power emerges from the\u00a0bonds and alliances<\/strong>\u00a0that womxn create. Fortunately, we know this too.<\/p>\n

Re-imagining a network of anti-prohibitionist womxn<\/h2>\n

The desire to build together has been the main motivation for this meeting. It has also been the desire\u00a0to generate strategies of articulation<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0to question our ideological positioning<\/strong>\u00a0in order to re-elaborate it, as well as\u00a0to have a political and social impact in the drugs field<\/strong>\u00a0from a feminist perspective.<\/p>\n

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The exchange of ideas, knowledge and experiences at this meeting has been nourished by an\u00a0intergenerational perspective<\/strong>\u00a0(we are women between the ages of 27 and 64). Moreover, we come from different places and different realities, but the enthusiasm to combine memory and new sensibilities has made possible the birth of initiatives that aim to shape a new REMA. We came to the conclusion that, from now on, our name will explicitly include two of the main axes of this network.\u00a0We are REMA \u2013 Anti-prohibitionist Feminists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We know that the perfect potion does not exist, but we are also aware of the urgency of a paradigm shift that guarantees the rights of people who use substances through decriminalisation and regulation based on social justice principles. In order to achieve this, it will be crucial\u00a0to make visible and strengthen narratives that have been historically silenced<\/strong>\u00a0in the framework of a cis-heteropatriarchal, racist, colonialist and ableist system. These narratives also advocate for\u00a0the right to decide over our own bodies<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0management of our pleasures.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Care and intersections<\/h2>\n

We have shared proposals, laughter, food, worries, dreams and moments of complicity under the light of the sun and the moon, getting to know and recognise each other. We made the word\u00a0care<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0acquire smells, flavours, textures and forms that some of us had never even experienced before.<\/p>\n

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On the other hand, we decided to rethink the intersection between those systems that oppress people who use drugs. We know that\u00a0prohibitionism stems from the will to specifically criminalise non-white people<\/strong>, so our most urgent commitment is to review the homogeneity and the privileges of this network and, above all, to reach out to those partners who are not with us.<\/p>\n

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In the end, this meeting has been a breath of fresh air. It has also been a space-time in which\u00a0to listen to each other without judgement<\/strong>\u00a0in order to learn, from admiration, inspiration and empathy.<\/p>\n

It has not been easy to get this far and it will not be easy\u00a0to face the challenges to come<\/strong>, especially because of the risk they imply for the established order. However, we are willing to be a trench, to continue to grow and to raise our voices against the established rules, just as those who preceded us did \u2013in spite of everything.<\/p>\n

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*Who are the members of REMA \u2013 Anti-prohibitionist Feminists?<\/h2>\n

Collectives and organisations:<\/strong><\/p>\n