About Locating Patriarchy

Hello and welcome to Bakau Consulting’s Locating Patriarchy course! Locating Patriarchy expands our understanding of systems of oppression that are deeply rooted within patriarchy as well as who and what can uphold patriarchy.

In this course, we identify the origins of gendered hierarchies while examining the link between colonialism, imperialism and gender. We will also move far beyond the workplace to discuss where patriarchy is learned and our place within it, as well as how our intersecting identities may be marginalized and privileged in nuanced ways within patriarchy. 

As you complete this course, we hope that you will be able to see how patriarchy affects you and how we can radically hope for a different reality. Before you complete this course, we ask that you take time to go through the pre-readings that will be provided later on.

Length: 6-7 hours. Available on-demand with no expiry.

Learning Outcomes

  • Effectively use an intersectional lens to understand how patriarchy affects us as individuals, and a society.

  • Understand how patriarchy, intersectionality, and colonialism are intertwined and how they contribute to internalized patriarchy.

  • Develop the skills to envision a real and radical future that exists beyond patriarchal rule.

  • Be able to recognize and call out internalized patriarchy while creating an environment of self-reflection.

Course curriculum

    1. Table of Contents

    2. Welcome to the course

      FREE PREVIEW
    3. Land acknowledgement

    4. Community guidelines and content warnings

    5. Pre-readings

    6. Self assessment survey

    7. Helpful resource

    1. Defining patriarchy

      FREE PREVIEW
    2. The gender binary

    3. Intersectionality

    4. Summary

    1. A brief history

    2. The intersection of colonialism and patriarchy

    3. Orientalism

    4. Patriarchy and possession

    5. Internalized patriarchy

    6. Summary

    1. Patriarchy and Entitlement

      FREE PREVIEW
    2. Body standards and ableism

    3. Where are we learning about patriarchy?

    4. Beauty standards

    5. Summary

    1. Positionality and self-reflection

    2. Self reflection activity

    3. Gaining awareness of daily patterns

    4. Reframing our relationships to self

    5. How to ask for support

    6. Passing on the knowledge

    1. Imagining a non-patriarchal world

    2. Where do we go from here? 4 steps to conscious upgrading

    3. Summary

About this course

  • $49.00
  • 33 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

Meet the creators

Equity and Inclusion Strategist Amrita Aggarwal

Amrita is a passionate storyteller and strategist, helping organizations attain an equitable and sustainable future. She envisions leveraging her energy and enthusiasm to affect positive social change in her community. She was raised by a theatre family and attained a unique blend of education in fine arts and business which all coalesced into her becoming a natural facilitator and strategist, leading organizations into a more inclusive future one policy and one conversation at a time. To foster healthy and inclusive communities, she works with Lean In Canada, YWCA, and many other local and international organizations. At the moment, she is gratefully living and dreaming worlds on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ), Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm), Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), and Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) First Nations.

Research Analyst Clementina Consens

Clementina is an artist, researcher, and environmental scientist that is driven to imagine and implement radical visions. Their holistic approach to information gathering and analysis allows for an intersectional approach to equity, reform and justice. They have a degree in Environmental Geoscience and a minor in Geographic Information Systems, which brings a geospatial perspective to their understanding of data. Throughout their career, Clementina has worked with and for Indigenous-led organizations in Ontario and they are committed to decolonization through collective healing. They are passionate about visiting Uruguay often, drinking mate at the beach and listening to stories told by the fire.

Get support

Our work often requires emotional labour, so we want to offer trusted resources for folks to access the support they deserve. Bakau has partnered with Healing in Colour to provide professional help to our community members. 

In this partnership, we encourage employers to cover the costs of their employee’s sessions. Mental health professionals can bill employers directly, keeping their employee’s identities anonymous.

Healing in Colour offers a directory of BIPOC therapists committed to supporting BIPOC — in all intersections. 

Healing in Colour is committed to anti-oppressive values in everything they do. Their values are pro-queer, pro-trans, pro-sex worker, pro-Black, pro-Indigenous, and anti-colonial. They actively work to disrupt power in all they do and to be responsible and accountable to the communities they serve.

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