LA REINE
Article 1 : inclusive writing
The use of inclusive writing will now be compulsory for all written documents: reports, briefs, exams, minutes of general meetings, minutes of the EC, and any schools communications. The use of inclusive writing will also be mandatory for all posts published on the erg's social networks. A course will be given to all students and teachers, in order to allow a better practice of this writing. Another course will be created, that of the oral adaptation of inclusive writing, presenting an advanced module of invention of the inclusive language for the masters, to allow it to transform itself continuously and thus to be open to the novelties that it will have to include.The hegemony of the "objective", "impartial" and "neutral" point of view will be punished (see Article 19: BDSM/whipping)
Article 1 bi: Neutral Feminine
The use of the neutral feminine will henceforth be mandatory for all oral lectures and oral communications. [in the french language, the neutral is masculine]
Article 1 bis: On the issue of language in general
Mandatory reading of No, the masculine doesn’t win over the feminine! by Éliane Viennot
Learn to heart the following vocabulary from Reclaim The Night
https://reclaimthenightbruxelles.wordpress.com
Article 2: Concerning the library and its books
When the author identifies as male, cisgender, heterosexual and white, the books will be moved to the archives, to remind us that this is one point of view among others, and that it is hegemonic. A disclaimer page will be included in each book when readers wish to consult these works. Strict quotas will be put in place for the selection of books represented. Strict quotas will be set for the selection of books represented. Attention will be paid to the subject matter, the context of the writing and the authors.The library will have to offer books on its shelves whose subject matter is present in the following proportions:
- 20% on gender issues,
- 20% on queer issues,
- 20% on feminism issues,
- 20% on Afrofeminism issues,
- 20% on transfeminism issues,
- 20% on xenofeminism issues,
- 20% on intersectional feminism issues,
- 20% on ecofeminism issues,
- 20% on ecosexuality issues,
- 20% on LGBT issues,
- 20% on LGBTQQI2SPAA+ issues (to be updated regularly).
The list is not exhaustive.
Article 3: Tuition fee
A tuition fee is imposed by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Its amount is indexed and varies according to the year and the type of study. The price of the tuition fee will be adjusted for each person according to a coefficient which will be attributed according to the following criteria which will determine the rate of privilege:
◊ male
◊ heterosexual
◊ cisgender
◊ white
◊ able bodied
◊ normative body
◊ literate
◊ middle class and bourgeois
◊ carnivorous
◊ human
Total = .../ 10
This coefficient is then translated into a percentage (10/10 = 100%, 5/10 = 50%, etc.) This percentage will be applied in two ways:
- as a supplement to the value of the tuition fee and other school-related expenses (coffee machine, photocopies, etc.)
- as a malus on the points awarded during evaluations and juries
Example: If you obtain 5/10:
- 50% of the price of your tuition fee will be charged to you as a supplement.
- 50% of the points awarded by your jury will be deducted from your final mark.
- and so on, …
Article 4: References and courses
Article 34 bis.
The management now requires the teaching staff to review its historical and artistic references, so to prohibit, in all theory courses, the mention of works by white cisgender heterosexual men. In this way, the erg intends to broaden the references of students and teachers. So-called "taboo" subjects, in that they are deliberately not addressed in current courses, will cease to be invisibilised. They will be given back their real place in the cultural landscape. For example, pornography, which represents an important part of the production of the images and narratives, will be reintegrated into the appropriate courses. New subject nominations will be as follows:
- Misogynistic communication theory
- Contemporary proto Queer and Queer histories and news
- Orientation support: modulations of embodiment
- Post-porn & Ecosex narratives and experiments
- CV Dazzle, politics of multiples: appearance transformation course
- Eat your make-up: cooking course, how to reclaim our livelihoods
- Femme Feral: wrestling course, led by Queer people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgvqEcS4OqA
- Take it down! A trashy make-up class inviting European queer hotspots to manage the proposals.
The orientations will be redesigned with new names, such as:
- Installation/sexual performances
- Vegan sculpture
- …
Article 5: Organisation of studies
The rhythm of the first and second cycles is to be adapted to the menstrual cycle.
Article Cis: Composition of the juries
The juries are composed of at least five members, five of whom are women. No academics. The composition of the juries will be established according to a reversed coefficient established in Article 3 of this document.
In preparation, the members of the juries who are not familiar with gender, post-colonialism, intersectional feminisms queer and situated, will have to spend at least two weeks locked up in the library (and not in the archives)
Article 7: Occupation of space and time
In order to avoid that the common space reproduces the same oppressive patterns as those of the world around us, several rules will be put in place concerning the occupation of space:
- the proportion of white heterosexual cisgender men should not exceed 30% for each spatial unit (room, corridor, workshop, etc.). When this percentage is exceeded, one or more of them will have to leave the room in order to maintain a healthy mix
- this rule also applies to speaking in mixed assemblies: the speaking time of white heterosexual cisgender men should not exceed 30% of the total discussion time.
Article 8: Rules of conduct for public events
To ensure that people who identify as heterosexual abide by the same rules as others at public events, the following list, which is taken from the Queer Nation Manifesto, shall be displayed at the entrance to the common space:
Rules of conduct for straight people:
1. Keep your displays of affection (kissing, holding hands, hugging) to a minimum. Your sexuality is not welcome and offensive to many here.
2. If you must slow dance, be as discreet as possible.
3. Don't stare at dykes and fags, especially butches and drag queens, we are not your freaks.
4. If you can't handle someone of the same sex hitting on you, get out! Don't flaunt your heterosexuality. Be discreet. Risk being thought of as a dyke or a faggot.
6. If you think these rules are not fair, go and fight homophobia in straight clubs, or
7. Go and get fucked. (it will do you good)
Everyone will be expected to follow these rules and will be held solely responsible if they do not. These rules will also apply to open days and other large public events, both by members of the school and by visitors.
Article 9: Heels and/or naked days
Heels and/or naked days impose the conspicuous wearing of heels and/or body hair.
Graduation day is now a "heels and/or naked day" with the aim of making the school radiate. Shoes and socks left in lockers will be taken care of during the day by foot fetishists (a public offer will be sent out for the occasion).
Article 10: Toilets
The erg toilets will now be renamed for alternative uses:
- toilets for vegans and cannibals
- toilets for maniacs and house fairies
- toilets for menstruating men and women who pee standing up
Article 10 bi
Drawings of sexual organs in the toilets (and elsewhere) must be varied.
Article 10a
The school will provide free dispensers of tampons, towels and mooncups, pee-debuts, condoms of all kinds and gels, in all toilets (including vegan ones). This list can be updated at any time at the toilet council.
Article 11: Cuddle Room
A Cuddle Room will be provided throughout the year in the school. Consent is required and sex is allowed in this space on the condition that you move to the Back Room.
Article 12: Respect and relationship to material
Queer and bondage parties are organised regularly, where anyone entering the building has to tie themselves to furniture, walls, doors in the school and spend the night there (see : Furniture Porn Project - Antoine Heraly (Fun Queer), the ecofeminist human chains of Greenham Common, …)
Article 13: Medical check-up
The erg refuses the imposition of the compulsory medical check-up and proposes a session of gynaeco-andro-genital self-observation, for the re-appropriation of the knowledge of our bodies