Chalk Circle, The Gender Literacy Foundation
Nonprofit Organization Management - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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MISSION STATEMENTChalk Circle is an independent organisation that creates conversations around gender literacy to empower the next generation.PURPOSEFounded by volunteers in Melbourne in 2014, we engage the community with credible, relatable and empowering information regarding gender literacy and equality. Our priority populations are young people and people from traditionally marginalised demographics. To engage these groups we run educational programs and events designed to balance critical engagement with fun, safe and interactive conversations. WHY 'CHALK CIRCLE'? Chalk Circle, as both an organisation name and concept, acknowledges that people often feel compelled to operate as though a faint chalk line is drawn around them, restricting them to specific gender roles and responses. This chalk outline also references the serious and sometimes violent outcomes that can occur when resources are unequally distributed and gender roles are rigid (VicHealth, 2007).Chalk Circle articulates the opportunity to create awareness around gender roles and work through educative models and structures to erase restrictions due to gender. Importantly, Chalk Circle presents an opportunity to rub out a past of gender inequality; and draw a future in which all people, especially those from traditionally marginalised demographics, have equal opportunity.WHAT IS 'GENDER LITERACY''?Emma Goldman famously said that ‘the most violent element in society is ignorance'. We believe that setting a standard for the community to be gender literate allows a strong foundation to critically examine gender and understand the effects of rigid gender roles and their relationship with gender inequality, discrimination, oppression and violence.Literacy, put simply, is the ability to use knowledge. It follows logically that knowledge must be gained before it is used. Particular skills, attitudes and behaviours must be fostered and harnessed to direct this use.
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