kroužek intersekce [krɔːʒek ɪntɜːrsektse] is an independent, imaginative space for collective learning in Prague. About once every three weeks, it organizes public meetings where participants discuss contemporary feminist literature and experiment with forms of learning without a teacher. They use the term kroužek (club, circle) to describe their effort to reclaim theory from the ivory towers of academia, and they also use it to celebrate childishness and play. With the term “intersection,” they highlight the intertwining of various forms of social inequality, which they not only identify during their meetings but also brainstorm ways to collectively disrupt.

The impulse to found kroužek intersekce came in October 2022. At that time, their primary motivation was a personal need to create a space where intersectional feminist texts could be openly debated. As emerging researchers, they lacked such an environment within their own institutions. The format of the meetings gradually evolved as the group of people attending and facilitating them grew and changed. In addition to the discussion of the text itself, an important aspect has become the methodology, which they have continually refined through mutual interaction with the participants. Thus, the goal of kroužek intersekce is now not only to seek out the intersections of various social inequalities but also to foster revolutionary imagination, free association, the development of facilitation skills, and the disruption of hierarchies within the collective.