1. Promoting a Collective Understanding of Care: Care is often seen as a personal responsibility, predominantly shouldered by women - often tied to global inequalities through care chains. The project aimed to shift this perception by emphasizing care as a collective social issue. 2. Building a Network to Articulate Mutual Care: The project sought to establish a transnational network and partnership. 3. Addressing Divisions and Promoting Intersectionality: Participants noted a division in their work between projects focused on so-called inclusion and gender justice. The project aimed to overcome this division. 4. Highlighting Marginalized Voices: The project aimed to prioritize, center and amplify the voices of marginalized individuals, particularly disabled female, non-binary, and trans* theater pedagogues and curators. 5. Creating Relaxed and Accessible Spaces: the project aimed to develop a learning framework and practical experience in creating relaxed and accessible spaces that inherently embody principles of care. 6. Sharing and difusing project results: Finally, the aim was to share the art, methods, thoughts and processes that been part of that journey for other educators and artists.
We applied for this project because we recognized the pervasive nature of discrimination and exclusion in our society. Our participating organisations observed a division in their work: their projects are dealing either with so-called inclusion or with gender justice but rarely connecting both. We wanted to overcome this artificial separation. We sought to address the topics within the arts, theater and education sectors in particular. The main need we addressed was to create an accessible art and education space where marginalized people can participate and feel safe, welcome, valued and seen. Recognizing that ideas of accessibility and care vary across different communities, we saw the necessity of incorporating diverse and transnational perspectives. Our project brought together queer feminist and disability justice activists from European regions to explore, discuss and experience the creation of accessible learning and creative spaces. We did this through the following activities: a close collaboration between partners and participants that was deepened in two hybrid educational trips to Munich and Vienna (one week each) and the creation of a website to share and diffuse some of our work.