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Webinar "Done with Dominance"

In this Webinar we will share more about how the project came Ito life and how we worked on it together.
There will be space to exchange experiences and introduce other initiatives and educators.

Khaled Ghrairi

Khaled Ghrairi (they/them or no pronouns) is a queer BIPOC activist and advocate from Tunisia, currently living in exile in Germany. Navigating the complexities of the immigration system while confronting systemic discrimination, Khaled brings lived experience and deep insight into queer and migration rights. Their work is grounded in direct support of displaced and imprisoned queer and political activists in Tunisia, with a sharp understanding of the region's political structures and colonial legacies.

Khaled offers talks, workshops, and trainings that center marginalized voices, challenge systems of oppression, and open up new ways of understanding identity, resistance, and belonging.

Speaking Engagements & Contact
Khaled is available for panel discussions, guest lectures, community events, and collaborative learning spaces.

To get in touch or invite them to speak or lead a session, please email:
raus-aus-der-dominanz@posteo.de

Methu Thavarasa (they/them or no pronouns)
Methu Thavarasa (they/them) is Eelam Tamil, born in Frankfurt am Main, raised in the Wetterau region and currently based in Berlin. Experiences of displacement, flight and migration, as well as positionalities at the intersections of racism, classism, sexism, ableism and queerphobia, form central points of biographical orientation. These experiences continue to shape Methu’s perspective on social power relations and serve as a foundational lens in Methu’s professional work. For more than ten years, Methu has worked as an educational consultant and political educator, supporting civil society organisations, public institutions, and political stakeholders in developing discrimination-sensitive and participation-oriented structures. The core objective is to sustainably anchor equitable access to representation, visibility and meaningful participation for all people.

Methu understands political education as a space where:

• systems of power and domination are made visible,

• discriminatory structures are critically analysed,

• the perspectives of marginalised communities are centred,

• and practical strategies for equitable participation and effective protection from discrimination are developed.

Methu’s thematic focus includes power critique, intersectionality and critical approaches to diversity. Through workshops, training formats and long-term organisational development processes, Methu creates reflective and solidaristic learning spaces that enable both individual and institutional transformation.

Methu’s expertise is grounded in academic training in political and cultural studies, complemented by extensive pedagogical and didactic experience in conveying critical, emancipatory content in both school-based and non-formal educational contexts. Methu is guided by the conviction that societal transformation emerges from the interplay of individual reflection, collective action and structural change and that political education is a crucial arena in which these processes can be initiated, supported and sustainably embedded.

To get in touch or invite them to speak or lead a session, please email:
methujathavarasa@posteo.net
https://thavarasa.de

Methu Thavarasa

All offerings can be tailored to grassroots groups, educators, NGOs, and institutions committed to anti-oppressive work.

Workshops & trainings offered by Khaled:

🌈 What Does Queerness Really Mean -
and Could I Be Queer?

A Decolonial Exploration of Identity, Belonging, and Queer Possibility
This reflective session challenges fixed, Western ideas of queerness by centering lived experiences from the Global South and diasporic communities. Together, we explore queerness as practice, survival, and political refusal beyond visibility politics or rigid identity labels.

🌍 What Does It Mean to Be Queer Across Cultures?

Interrogating Queer Identity
Through an Intersectional and Anti-Colonial Lens
This workshop unpacks how queerness is shaped by colonial histories, racial capitalism, displacement, and cultural erasure. We explore how systemic power produces - and polices - queer identities, and how communities resist through creativity, care, and collective knowledge.

🌱 What Can Nature Teach Us About Queerness, Resistance, and Rupture?

Queer Ecology as Decolonial Practice
This workshop explores how queer and Indigenous ecological thinking challenge colonial ideas of nature, purity, and control. We reclaim interdependence, transformation, and "unnaturalness" as radical tools for healing, survival, and resistance.

🏛️ Why Is Homosexuality Criminalized in North Africa - and Who Benefits?

Uncovering Colonial Legacies, State Violence, and Resistance
Participants trace the roots of anti-queer legislation in the region, revealing how colonial law, authoritarian rule, and nationalist morality intersect to police queer existence. The session highlights resistance from within and beyond these borders.

🛂 How Do Queer Migrants Resist Borders and Bureaucracy?

Queer Migration as a Struggle for Dignity, Not Just Asylum
This workshop centers queer migration as a site of resistance against state violence, legal exclusion, and racial capitalism. Through lived experience and collective strategies, we explore survival, visibility, and the contradictions of "asylum" in Europe.

🏠 How Do We Build Truly Liberatory Spaces for Queer Migrants?

Beyond Inclusion:
Toward Collective Care, Autonomy, and Anti-Colonial Practice
More than symbolic diversity, this session offers a radical vision for building spaces rooted in care, solidarity, and power-sharing. Ideal for groups seeking to move from inclusion toward structural change and accountability.

Khaled Ghrariri

All offerings can be tailored to grassroots groups, educators, NGOs, and institutions committed to anti-oppressive work.

Workshops & trainings offered by Methu:

I. Workshops & Trainings (4–6 hours) with Co-Trainer

Focus areas: power-critical, anti-discriminatory and diversity-oriented educational work

Topics (selection):

• Structural and power-critical approaches to diversity in organisations

• Anti-bias training

• Allyship and critical solidarity

• Pitfalls of solidarity: navigating fragility and defensiveness through a Critical Whiteness lens within teams

• Introduction: Positional and values-based argumentation against right-wing rhetoric

• Advanced: Situational argumentation techniques against right-wing and populist narratives

Examples:

• “Introduction to Critical Diversity: What sustainable diversity development truly entails – and what it does not”

• “Seeing Power, Understanding Structures, Opening Spaces: An introduction to power-critical thinking”

• “Intersectional Perspectives as a Compass for Participatory Justice: Why diversity alone is not enough”

• “‘When they enter, we all enter’: Understanding and applying intersectionality according to Kimberlé Crenshaw”

• “Racism-Critical Organisational Development: Naming racism, building accountable stances, taking responsibility”

• “Allyship in Practice: Moving beyond performative solidarity”

III. Moderation

Professional and discrimination-sensitive facilitation of:

• Team retreats and strategy sessions

• Panel discussions

• Full-day events

• Readings and public conversations

V. Keynotes & Public Talks

Topics (selection):

• Democratic team structures

• Positional and values-based argumentation against right-wing narratives

• Intersectionality / intersectional power awareness in teams and organisations

II. Consulting & Process Facilitation (6 hours / ongoing project support) with Co-Trainer

Focus areas: organisational development, intersectionality, anti-discriminatory and racism-critical practice

Services:

• Process-oriented expert inputs and consultancy

• Intersectional case consultation

• Diversity-oriented organisational development

• Anti-discriminatory and racism-critical mentoring

Examples:

• “Intersectionality as a Tool: Making power relations visible and translating insights into operational measures”

• “Power-Critical Team Facilitation: Reflection, accountability, transformation”

• “From good intentions to structural change: Strategies for building more equitable organisations”

• “Understanding blockages – expanding room for action: Process facilitation in discrimination-sensitive contexts”

• “Between aspiration and everyday practice: Developing racism-critical approaches within teams”

IV. Empowerment Programmes for People Affected by Racism (6 hours) with Co-Trainer

Examples:

• “Stronger Together: Impulses for empowering collective practice”

• “Safer Space Network: Foundations for sustainable empowerment work”

• “Spaces for Healing: Empowerment programmes for people affected by racism”

• “Acting from strength: Empowerment as a political practice”

VI. Editing & Sensitivity Readings

For:

• Educational materials

• Brochures

• Guidelines

• Concept papers

Methu Thavarasa