TEMA#4
Matriarchy -
What if society was built around women*?
Matriarchy could mean solidarity.
Matriarchy could mean awareness.
Matriarchy could mean sustainability.
Matriarchy could mean understanding.
Matriarchy could mean tenderness.
Matriarchy could mean female* self-determination.
Matriarchy could mean an equal division of labour.
Matriarchy could mean less violence against women*.
Matriarchy is desirable
– is it?
In its fourth issue, TEMA wants to provoke a discussion on the male-dominated power structures in the world and discuss an alternative: Is matriarchy a real opportunity? Is it even possible to change thousand-year-old patriarchal structures? What is in between the two extremes?
We have a saying / Männer LOL
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