A Space for Learning and Accountability

Training opens July 13th.

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Deprogramming the Patriarchy is a 4 hour asynchronous learning experience with a facilitated online group component, created specifically for cisgender white women who want to engage honestly with how patriarchy and white supremacy function as intertwined and mutually reinforcing systems.

This training explores the social and political placement of white women, white women’s fragility and rage, the weaponization of femininity, shame and guilt, and the role of racism and transphobia, even within so-called “progressive” spaces. Participants will critically examine how trans-exclusionary radical feminism and political compromise often treat trans people’s  and people of color's safety and dignity as negotiable, within movements, families, and social relationships.

This is not a perfect or exhaustive training. It is an intentionally courageous one, designed to support participants in facing difficult truths with honesty, building clarity about their own power and responsibility, and leaving with practical ways to move in accountable allyship with all women. 

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand how patriarchy and white supremacy function as co-dependent systems, including how they shape both gendered and racial hierarchies, even inside progressive and feminist spaces.

• Examine the social and political positioning of white cisgender women, including how access to credibility, sympathy, and protection reinforces power.

• Identify patterns of white women’s fragility, defensiveness, and rage, and how these responses often derail accountability and protect harm.

• Recognize how trans-exclusionary radical feminism operates within feminist and progressive movements, and how its narratives reinforce patriarchy, racism, and gender policing.

• Analyze how racism and transphobia are frequently treated as negotiable in political spaces, families, and social groups, especially when maintaining comfort, unity, or relationships with those in power is prioritized over the safety and dignity of trans people and women of color.

• Understand the weaponization of femininity and gender roles, including how white womanhood is used to justify fear, exclusion, and moral panic, particularly toward trans women and gender-diverse people.

• Differentiate between guilt, shame, and responsibility, and develop practices for staying engaged through discomfort without centering oneself.

• Apply an intersectional feminist framework to better understand how race, gender identity, disability, class, and sexuality shape women’s lived experiences in unequal and interconnected ways.

• Develop clarity and confidence in accountable allyship, including concrete strategies for interrupting transphobia and racism in progressive spaces, family systems, and personal relationships.

• Leave with personal commitments and next steps for disrupting harm, redistributing power, and engaging in sustained, imperfect, and courageous action in solidarity with all women, especially trans women and all women of color.