Dates for 2025: Saturday 19.07.2025 – Saturday 26.07.2025.
INTERNATIONAL WEEK 2025
The week is fully booked and we no longer accept sign ups for the waiting list either, unfortunately.
Who can participate?
Inti Week is a feminist week open to ALL women (cis and trans), as well as non-binary and intersex people. Participants must have an F or an X in their passport or an even CPR-number (Danish social security number). We recognize that having a passport is a privilege not everyone has access to. If you are a US citizen and recent policy changes have affected your passport, please reach out to us directly so we can find a solution together. While we acknowledge these structural barriers, we ask all participants to respect the spirit of the term woman and the purpose of a women’s camp. Cis men cannot join the camp.
Sign-up
From March 8, you can sign up here: Registration Form
What does international week stand for?
The subjects of feminism and queerness are at the heart of our week on Femø. We yearn for conversations about everyday life, and the thoughts and feelings of individuals in and from different cultures. We are very diverse: not only do we come from different countries, but the way we live feminism is also different.
At Inti Week, we build bridges between each other, our communalities and our differences. We try our best for everyone to feel heard and seen. Each and every one of us takes the responsibility to listen and to try and understand each other’s points of views – whether you are a feminist in your seventies or a genderqueer person in your twenties. At camp, we introduce ourselves with names and pronouns. This allows us to get to know each other. Not everyone wants to share their pronouns, which is of course accepted. But please respect all pronouns, even if they sound unfamiliar to you. The magic of Inti Week happens, when we meet each other with curiosity instead of judgement, with openness and a willingness to learn and be inspired. When we focus on what unites us, we can change the world – together.
We also really enjoy the simple things, like cooking together, dancing, swimming in the sea, sitting around the bonfire, singing, and laughing together. For many of us, International Week represents the joy of stepping back from daily life, slowing down, and being present in the now, rather than always “doing.”
What do we do during international week?
Every day, participants offer workshops for everyone to join. It is, of course, entirely up to you, if you want to participate. Some workshops are planned beforehand, like the ones you can read about below. Others pop up spontaneously, when more people want to share something with the group. This year, we are planning whittling workshops, dance workshops, morning yoga, talking groups, as well as workshops where we explore our bodies. “Pleasure” and “consent” seem to be important themes this year!
Each year, we also have a party together. This year’s theme is “Over the top”. You find a description further below.
Who makes Inti Week happen?
The Femø Camp is a self-organized camp on a tiny Danish island. A week team plans the week and provides a basic structure, and everyone during the week is part of making daily life at the camp enjoyable. All participants contribute by sharing various tasks such as cooking, dishwashing, cleaning, and other practical duties. You will probably have one duty a day, where you help keep the camp running smoothly. Duty sign-up takes place twice during the week so that you can combine camp duties with your workshop interests and other activities – or hanging out.
Practicalities
The camp is located on a beautiful meadow close to the water and consists of large common tents and an area for small private tents. Around 75 people are expected to participate in Inti Week. We have fresh drinkable water, a well-equipped kitchen tent with gas stoves, and basic facilities, including warm showers and simple toilets. Take a look at the pages on practicalities to see how to get to the island. The easiest (and nicest) way to get to the camp is by the specially chartered bus from Copenhagen or Rødby ferry harbor.
Language, community, and togetherness
Inti Week strives to build a queer, international community across borders and cultures, which doesn’t have a common language. We speak English – or rather Femø-English—a funny and not always intentional mixture of our different mother languages and body language— in the common areas so that everybody feels included. Inti Week thrives on the unspoken language of activities, presence, and care for one another.
Children
Typically, we have a small group of children at Inti Week. We arrange daily activities for a couple of hours where the children and child activists at camp come together. If you are bringing children and would like to help create a sense of togetherness for children of different ages and languages, we would greatly appreciate it—please let us know!
At the common meetings in the evenings, important information is shared. During this time, the agreement is that children are in the background or have been put to bed. (Bring a baby monitor for these situations.) It is often helpful to ask another adult in the camp beforehand to support you as a parent, provide information if you cannot attend the common meeting, or help with practicalities. Many adults or young people are glad to assist and connect with your children, but they need to know what you need to be there for you and your kids.
Talking groups
We invite you to participate in talking groups in traditional Femø-style, where we take a round (or two…) of sharing personally while everyone else listens. Since this is a good way to get to know each other, we would like to start those early in the week. And besides listening to each other, the beautiful nature of “our” piece of the island will be a part of our time together.
WORKSHOPS AND TALKING GROUPS
This year, we plan to offer the following workshops and talking groups (some details may still change, so please keep an eye on this website as well as the welcome letter you will receive upon registration):
Believing ears and eyes
Do you have dreams, ideas, or hopes for yourself, your life, or your role in society, but hesitate to share them with anyone because you fear others’ critical remarks—or your own inner judge telling you that these are silly or unrealistic thoughts? Would you like to try saying your dreams and ideas out loud? Well, you’ve come to the right place. This workshop offers a safe space for open sharing. Together, we will listen and explore your vision with you. We may ask clarifying questions to help us better picture it, but there is no room for any judgments or opinions. Come to this workshop if you want to share a dream. Come if you want to listen and dream together with others. Come if you want to both share and listen. Let us be each other’s believing eyes and ears.
Gender Across History and Cultures
We will start by filling out a global map with examples of genders in different cultures and at different times to create a visual representation of lives beyond the gender binary. This will include discussion of the impacts of colonisation. The mapping will be followed by a discussion about our own cultural experiences of gender framed around some key questions. This is a space to be curious about our own gender and how we express it, but not for questioning other people’s gender identity.
Mental Health Tools
We will co-create a list of mental health tools that we use and find helpful. These could be things that help you sleep, sooth your body, bring you joy, nurture yourself, or help with anxiety, panic or depression. This is a safe space to share as much as you want to so we agree not to repeat stories we have heard outside of the group. However, the focus will be on what helps. After we have made the list of tools, we will practice two or three together so that we can continue using them after the camp.
Whittling workshop
Whittling is the art of carving shapes out of wood using a knife, an age-old practice that transforms fresh wood into beautiful objects or funny shapes. This workshop is for beginners or experienced woodlovers, offering a step-by-step guide to the basics of knife handling, wood selection, and carving techniques. As we shape the wood shavings together, you will also experience the meditative and gratifying process of creating with your hands. It is a chance to slow down, and maybe even create something personal to take home. In camp we have whittling knives, so you don’t have to bring your own, unless you have a special connection to your own tool.
Making a big collaborative textile collage
We will have a large piece of fabric, sewing materials, fabric scraps and material from nature in order for us to make a big collaborative textile collage. Everyone will be able to sew some elements on the big piece of fabric, and several people will be able to work at once. Textile art is folk tradition in many places, and historically very often considered women’s work. It would therefore be interesting to talk about this history, and the politics of arts vs. craft, as well as the definition of art in a patriarchal world.
Choir
Welcome to Femø’s own choir! We explore our voices in a safe setting with focus on fun! No need to be able to sing, everyone’s welcome. We will learn to harmonise with each other and do creative warm-up exercises with a focus on rhythm!
Desire, Flirt, Touch & Empower
Does flirting feel awkward? Limited to those with whom you have romantic intention? Let’s explore ways to flirt in a fun, playful, lighthearted way, where it doesn’t have to be heavy or specific to romantic intentions. We’ll also look closely at our desires: many of us don’t even know what we want. We respond to what others want from us, what we feel we “should” do, or perhaps we are afraid of disappointing or hurting someone, so we go along. In this 2-hour workshop, we will create a safe space to flirt, explore our desires, our yes’s and our no’s, practice asking for what we want and exercising our right to say no and set boundaries.
Cuddle and touch-workshop
Cuddling and touching are just great and people almost always need more of it. Cuddling and touching also provide an alternative form of connection. Arriving at a new place with new people is not as easy for some as it is for others and a space with a clear framework, clear boundaries and exercises, just knowing what can and cannot be expected, can be really helpful to feel connected without having to use verbal communication. We might have it in two parts – one workshop focusing on talking about touch and different exercises to get comfortable. And a second one which is more of an open cuddle space.
Positive objectification
Can objectification be sexy, also for the ones being objectified? As feminists most of us have a negative relation to being objectified, for good reasons. However, in this workshop we will experiment with empowering ways to play with objectification. After an introduction and a consent negotiation, there will be exercises in smaller groups. The workshop is hands-on, playful, hopefully hot and maybe you will learn new things about yourself. The workshop is standing on traditions from the queer bdsm-scene, but you don’t need to be into BDSM in order to participate.
Introduction to Shibari
This workshop tries to explore the emotional art of Shibari, which is a japanese form of rope bondage. We will be focusing on its creative, mindful, consensual and erotic practices. Over three 1.5-hour sessions, we will try to learn foundational techniques, including the single column tie, while understanding the importance of verbal and non-verbal communication, consent, and safety in rope play.
Max. 10 participants. Please note that physical contact will happen in this workshop, you are welcome to sign up in pairs. No prior experience is needed, and all materials will be provided.
Sex Work Talking Group
This talking group offers a safe, open space to explore and share our personal feelings and experiences related to sex work. Through guided discussions, we will reflect on the complexities of sex work, its impact on gender, power, and autonomy, and how it intersects with feminist values. This session encourages respectful dialogue and collective learning in a supportive environment.
Talking group on intersectional feminism: Shoulder to shoulder
It feels like we have reached a turning point in our struggle. The steady rise of the right seems unstoppable. It is about class, racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia – the right is creating division at the very time we need solidarity and unity. If we are to survive we need to stand together as feminists – as intersectional feminists. Join us in a Femø-style talking group as we celebrate our differences and strive to fight the patriarchy with empathy, understanding and support for each other.
Yoga on the beach
We plan on having yoga sessions, preferably on the beach. Nearly daily, depending on your wishes. Either a nice connected series of exercises or individual exercises on specific focal points in our back, shoulders, etc. are treated in a morning and a late session. The sessions are for everyone and it would be great if as many as possible participate in the practice sessions. The more fun it is, the better the energy flows.
Dancing workshop
Dance like no one is watching – because during this workshop, no one is. This year we will again have a workshop inspired by the 5-Rhythms – a dance practice where we dance individually with ourselves, within ourselves. Feeling the different rhythms and dancing the movements that resonate with our bodies. There is no set choreography – it is all about dancing with whatever thoughts, feelings and movements come up. We will find a place in the camp where others cannot watch us, put on a playlist of songs in different rhythms, and dance as freely as we want to dance.
Kayak course
We have a number of sea kayaks and will – if the sea allows it – offer a workshop on how to kayak. The workshop starts on Sunday and will last for four days. Participation on all days would be nice. The following clothing would be useful: neoprene shorty, sun hat, neoprene shoes, +50 sun protection long-sleeved shirt.
Games
Every day, we want to have an hour of organized fun activities, like board games or active games. You are invited to share your interest with everyone attending the camp in a relaxed setting. On the evening before, we find out who is going to present or facilitate the playtime for the next day. If nothing particular is suggested, playtime can still be used as a way to meet up and relax, read together or play a game.
Pop-up workshops
In addition to what we have already planned, other workshops will most certainly pop up during the week. For example a joint tour to the other side of the island in our sea kayaks, stretching exercises before breakfast, meditation groups, folk dance, maybe some akro yoga, maybe some queer astrology, maybe a Gender & Sapphic Library, which is inspired by the Human Library concept and allows you to ask those who volunteer as human book all the questions you never dared to ask (in a respectful and caring way, of course).… to mention just a few possibilities that might come up…. And who knows – we might continue a 50-year-old tradition and make beautiful art pieces with our own very private parts. Join if you are curious and want to have fun with other artists.
IMPORTANT!!
Theme party: “Over the top”
Too much? No, you need to be much muchier! All of us are often told that we are either too much or not enough. It is an accusation used against drag queens or a young butch wanting to cut their hair short. Women, straight or queer, often face similar accusations. The words “too much” want to tell us that we ask for too much, that our love is too loud and that we really ought to pipe it down.
Well, not anymore! For this year’s Inti Week party, we invite you to show up as your loudest self. Do you have a fun hat that you have never had the occasion to wear? Or maybe a color-matching outfit that screams loud? Have you always wanted to try being in drag? Inti Week invites you to bring it all and join us and celebrate being too much and just enough at this year’s party.
It is often possible to find things on camp to create a costume, but we suggest bringing something from home that you can use. Remember, nothing is too much.
Sign-up
From March 8, you can sign up here: Registration Form
If you have questions, please contact the week team by email: intiweek@gmail.com
More information about International Week can be found here: INTERNATIONAL WEEK
