English Language Curricula

Feminism and empathy

Dragana S. Gunin | 120 minutes

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Keywords – Feminism, empathy, women, ngo, actors, victims

Actually these are two lessons (workshops), one with the feminist NGO Lastrada in which we mostly talked about sexual harassment and the other is artistic workshop in which we talked about empathy and how to listen to people how have been through sexual harassment on their workplaces without judgment.

Prior Art:

These two workshops were part from the training for artisitic activism. Beside the lectures about artistic activism, corruption, history, culture, etc, I wanted as a trainer to give part of me in the training as my workshop was connected to sextortion. I realized my trainees should learn and listen about feminism, sexual harassment, how does it happen in North Macedonia, how often, in which profession the most and how to listen to the victims with empathy and try not to judge and understand while making the interviews.
It was important to talk with someone from NGO who work with victims many years. We got suggestions that we should try and talk with more women in person and also check administration as they say, the sextortion is most seen there. So we did. They were right. There are a lot of women who are facing corruption (mostly as sextortion) on workplaces and they are afraid to talk about that with anyone.
Last week in two interviews, regarding to this topic, I talked about corruption and said that it is really important for the Commission against Corruption to be more active and try to see what is happening inside public institutions.