Bringing gender relations into motion:

Gender education is a key tool for achieving equality between all genders.

To this end, we offer books and didactic materials, organize events and workshops and supervise various educational projects (Workshops | Gender Drops | Bücherkoffer | KeK)

Our main goals are to

• to recognize gender roles as changeable, both historically and in the context of different forms of society and – with an intersectional perspective – in connection with class, ethnicity, age and physical normativity
• to promote non-conformity and diversity: Develop appreciation and respect for feelings, desires and goals beyond learned gender roles
• Recognize and question violent structures: Seeking help, developing self-confidence, learning self-empowerment and acting in solidarity

Since Autumn 2024, we will be expanding our range of services: In collaboration with and through funding from Luxembourg City, we will offer workshops in the field of gender education in primary schools in the capital. Raising awareness of gender equality is not only a political but also an educational task that is highly relevant in the current social climate.

This relevance was evident in the debates surrounding petition no. 3198, in which the signatories positioned themselves against the inclusion of LGBTQIA+ and gender-based topics in schools and curricula. Such initiatives illustrate the necessity and urgency of feminist education work: when conservative forces try to keep diversity out of the education system, it becomes all the more clear how crucial it is to strengthen (not only) children and young people in their understanding of gender roles and social norms in order to counteract discrimination and pave the way to a fairer society.

Kaméidi fir Toleranz a Fräiheet: Aktion vom 25.07.24 im CID gegen die Petition Nr.3198 ©CID

The feminist struggle for a just society therefore remains a cross-cutting task that must be fulfilled in many places at the same time. The classroom remains one of the most important “spaces of possibility” for social and emancipatory transformations (Bell Hooks 1994, Teaching to Transgress, Education as the Practice of Freedom, Routledge).