La Escocesa Feminist Protocol 2025

La Escocesa is a space for creation, work, and shared coexistence, where diverse artistic practices, community ties, and relationships converge, which are not exempt from conflict, tension, or violence. As in any collective space, these situations do not occur in isolation, but are intersected by structural inequalities linked to gender, origin, class, training, sexuality, or other axes of oppression.

In light of this reality, La Escocesa has developed a document between 2024 and 2025 in collaboration with the consulting firm Genera. It is entitled “The protocol for addressing assaults, harassment, discrimination, and repeated offensive behavior of a sexual or gender-based nature from an intersectional feminist analysis and restorative justice methodologies.”

This protocol was created with the aim of providing political and methodological tools to address, from a transformative perspective, the violence and conflicts that can arise within the community. Therefore, it is based on four fundamental conceptual pillars:

• Transfeminism, as a critical framework for cisheterosexual normativity and the violence that derives from it.

• The structural analysis of violence, understanding it as a phenomenon linked to systems such as patriarchy, racism, and capitalism.

• Intersectionality, to understand how different axes of oppression and privilege intersect in each situation.

• Criticism of the culture of punishment, advocating for methodologies of accountability, reparation, and transformation, rather than punitive logic.

The protocol establishes several courses of action depending on the type of incident:

• Gender-based violence (physical, psychological, sexual, economic, digital).

• Situations of discrimination or harassing behavior that may affect equal access to the space.

• Conflicts involving gender asymmetries, which require mediation tools and community healing.

The document also incorporates criteria and indicators for assessing the risk, severity, and impact of situations, as well as for guiding the type of support and possible restorative or institutional actions. It is, therefore, a practical tool, the approach of which places the affected persons at the center, without neglecting to analyze and support the persons who cause the harm, from a perspective of change and responsibility.

Adapting the protocol to other forms of violence

It is very important to note that this protocol is not a closed manual, but rather a living tool that invites collective engagement, review, and adaptation in order to continue building more just, pluralistic, and safe spaces based on shared responsibility.

Starting in the second half of 2025, La Escocesa began a new process to expand the scope of the protocol to other forms of structural violence, especially racist and ableist violence. This task has been entrusted to resident artist Tau Luna. During this phase, an in-depth review of the existing protocol has been carried out, as well as previous research developed at La Escocesa in relation to anti-ableism, and anti-racist protocols and good practices from other institutions and collectives, both locally and internationally. This work has identified the need for accessible language, clear definitions of violence, prevention measures, restorative mechanisms, and educational spaces adapted to the specific context of La Escocesa.

The analyses shared with the Comissió de Cures (Commission of Priests) and other groups have shown that an extension of the protocol carried out in a non-collective manner would undermine its political and community significance. In view of this, it has been decided to reorient the process and commit to a collaborative approach through the creation of a working group scheduled for 2026, with the participation of groups and cultural agents from Barcelona with experience in anti-racist and anti-colonial practices.