Soft Qualities vs Patriarchy — Miki Kashtan

The Power of the Soft Qualities to Transform Patriarchy — Miki Kashtan

Patriarchy emerges from scarcity, functions in separation, and results in powerlessness. You can’t fight it with its own tools. Kashtan proposes the qualities patriarchy despises: tenderness, vulnerability, humility, mourning, celebration — and communities built on purpose and agreements rather than control. A valuable map for what we’re building.

:open_book: Read the article (PDF, Self & Society, 2020)