On October 22 we organize a presentation of the book “Make Love Better” by Jan Dworkin.
It is a text that wants to help build more sustainable relationships and love us better. It will be at La Raposa, feminist bookstore of the Poble-Sec of Barcelona and in collaboration with Fil a l’agulla.
It will be within the framework of Jan’s visit to Barcelona on the occasion of the Seminar: Damage and Responsibility.
The book Make Love Better by Jan Dworkin is the result of her experience of more than 25 years as an individual and relationship therapist, as co-founder of the Process Work Institute UK and as a facilitator, among other areas in which she has worked. From his personal experience and also from the one he has learned accompanying sex-affective relationships, Dworkin * compiles proposals to build more sustainable relationships that are freer and give us more freedom. However, it does so from the awareness that all this is a great challenge and that one cannot discern the relations of social, political, economic, cultural, etc. contexts. that frame them.
In an excerpt from the book, he explains that “beyond, I want to go to one point: when it comes to relationships (and most things), I don’t have a” normal “to promote. In fact, I am against the idea of normality, especially in the realm of love. If your relationship lives outside the margins of the mainstream forms; if you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, queer or transgender; if you don’t identify with gender binarism or with any kind of categorization; if you are polyamorous or non-monogamous by consensus; if you relate to someone substantially older or younger, or someone from a different ethnic, religious or racial group; if you or your partner / partners have functional diversity or * neurodivergence or experience extreme altered states of consciousness; or if one or all people in the relationship are having difficulties with substance or sex addictions, if you are struggling with chronic ailments, poverty, homelessness … the challenges that the world involves will probably be very severe.
Society does not forgive diversity in relational and family models. Society will pressure you because you abandon your dreams and stop trying when things get complicated. And then, the mainstream society will blame you and will not blame you for being single. Be that as it may, society will always find something to judge. I hope this book offers some kind of liberation towards this trial. ”
To talk about all this and to gain freedom, we invite you with great enthusiasm to the presentation of Jan Dworkin’s book that we will make to Barcelona next Tuesday, October 22 at 7:00 p.m. It will be in the feminist and vegan bookstore La Raposa, with whom we like very much to make this collaboration.
22nd October – 19h
La Raposa, bookstore
Carrer de Tapioles, 47, 08004 Barcelona