Feminist Bonding Activities?
I'm having a sleepover/retreat for my feminist group. We're going to paint potter, eat food and watch my favorite movie, Iron Jawed Angels . Also we're going to do some bonding activities, since that's kind of the idea of having the sleepover. Does anyone have any suggestions for good feminist bonding activities, or just good general ones?
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I have 3 we used to do with my color guard in high school and college. But I'm not sure if they are the activities you meant.
The first two are pretty general trust activities. Falling backwards and trusting people to catch you; and standing in a circle holding hands, and leaning back as far as you can and trusting no one to let go, or everyone falls. A variation of the last one is standing in a circle and having everyone sit on the lap/knees of the person on their right. We usually fell over on that one.
We also used to play a human knot game, if you have enough people. There, we'd gather really close in a bunch and then everyone would hold hands with two different people, creating a knot. Then we'd have to crawl over/under people w/o letting go of the others' hands until the "knot" was untied and everyone was just standing in a circle.
This is more of a general party game, but you can easily make it feminist themed. Just have everyone write down questions, put them in a hat and then pass around the hat. I know it sounds ridiculously simple, but you get some really interesting responses. And you can ask questions like "Have you ever voted for a Republican?", "What is your worst political volunteering story?", "What about you is the most/least feminist?" etc. It is fun, and you get some surprising answers.