This is a campaign for you: man, boy, boyfriend, brother, uncle, child, grandpa, adult, teacher, student… whoever you are, as long as you belong to the male gender, the xaji would like to invite you to join a movement that fights for the equality of all people: we have a place for you in feminism! at home, at school, at work, with friends, at parties, on the pitch, in the playroom and whenever we fight for equal rights… we have a place or you!
We want to grow, cry, play, comfort each other, take care of each other, love each other, defend each other, talk to each other and debate together. we have room for you.
There is room for you in feminism!
This campaign has been devised by students, teachers and entities involved in the xaji 23-24 during the winter and spring of 2024.
This campaign has been devised by students, teachers and entities involved in the XAJI 23-24 programme during the winter and spring of 2024.
Campaign objectives
The XAJI is a programme for the prevention of gender violence, framed by peer education and cooperative learning. It aims to support young people, so that they promote gender equality, detect abusive relationships in their own educational environment and finally become references and active agents for social transformation among their peers. It is a process that usually starts in the 1st year of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) and ends in the 4th year of ESO. This year it is being carried out in Catalan centres and also in Porto.
With our communication campaign A Place For You, we aim to make an impact both in Portugal and Catalonia, with the active participation of the young people of XAJI, focusing especially on the involvement of people who are visible as XAJI men.
The main objective of the campaign has been to break away from the stereotype that “young men are increasingly sexist”. Its aim is to show that there are ways that young people live and act that represent an example in the feminist struggle, highlighting the positive aspects and the mobilisation that young people are taking part in. We need to raise awareness that other ways of doing things are possible, based on the XAJI youth themselves and on other initiatives and role models of young men in feminism.
The process of the campaign
Working with all the young people of the XAJI programme, focusing on those who identify as boys, but without ignoring the girls, community actions have been carried out throughout the process. A communication campaign has been carried out with the active participation of young people and the entities that coordinate the Programme.
We would like to give a special mention to all the young women in the centres of Sant Martí and Sant Adrià who took part in the dynamics of the campaign and a special thank you to the Institut Vàzquez Montalbán of Sant Adrià del Besòs where the filming took place.
#APlaceForYou is also a place for you: have a look at all the different parts of the campaign and help us share it, to create, together, a more feminist world!