# Valuing Indispensability
#### FTP08: What does it take to be an intersectional space in practice?
#### 9, 16, 23 March Wednesdays 7-8pm IST

### Intersectionality and Indispensability

We started thinking of intersectionality of spaces and the amount of labour that actually goes into making it so. One of the ideas that we had been exploring recently is the idea of **Indispensability**. There seemed to be many places where these two ideas overlapped. We started to consider how only by making certain voices, spaces and worldviews " *indispensable* ", we tend to approach intersectionality. The questions that came up immediately were about what it means to make something indispensable, what is the labour behind it, how do we maintain the effort etc. These are questions we want to ask, with you

### Origins

When we first saw the call that FTP had put out, we started thinking of ways to do these sessions with the people we work with. We have a community network set up in 3 villages: Durgadahalli, Thimmanayakahalli and Halekote. We initially thought that the session could be a way of translating the concepts of FTP like spaces back to our community but we couldn't figure out how to do it. The ethical considerations about what meaningful consent looks like, the nature of relationships in these settings in terms of power and capital, and translating (the vastly different) contexts in the two sites (the playground and the village). That was when we thought of this session where we could explore this conundrum together. The idea is to question the rules of this play session together, discuss its implications and take the playground outside its confines to make it more balanced. We want to take the conversations from this space and translate it into a street play. This is intending to circulate the money received from this call into the communities we work with as well as use it to start further conversations.

### Idea behind the poster

The poster is from one of our events called Anthillhacks where we invite various organisations, hackers, coders, artists, farmers and try to orchestrate sessions which are again intersectional in some sense. It tells the idea of a place where different people from various backgrounds can have a space and do things together. Look at Patch(our doggy friend) sleeping, or children from Thimmanayakahalli crowding around electric auto because it was something they saw first time in their village or the discussions about FLOSS with live sitar practice in the background.

However, the conflicts and fractures we observed in AnthillHacks overlap with those of FTP-like spaces. And we want to use this space to invite your ideas, struggles and discussions and thus continue this learning process.

### Your Responses, Ideas

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