The Feminist Club Amsterdam
Today, we invite you to zoom on different accounts of the prison as a place of social practice and what feminist standpoints have had to say about it. The criminal justice system has witnessed fierce debates over its actual impact and ability to support a feminist agenda. We hope that this brief introduction to carceral […]
Poem: Gloria Anzaldúa pamela varelapavamere.la In Mexico, it is common to hear the phrase se la robaron1. This means a woman was taken by a man and forced to mate with him and bear his children. This was a common practice in the generations before my grandparents. My great-grandmother–poor, with Cora indigenous roots, and […]
Mexico: Abortion has been decriminalised after that the Mexican Supreme Court declared it hybride punishment for abortions unconstitutional. The statue of Christopher Columbus in Mexico City will be replaced by one of an indigeneous woman because the mayor Claudia Sheinbaum says that she doesn’t want to forget the history around Christopher Columbus but that she […]
Written by Hana Elramly “Everything in life is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power” – Oscar Wilde. Sex drives a major part of our actions and is present in several aspects of our lives, though for long it is meant to be limited to a married couple’s bedroom. Because sex is the essence […]
South Kurdistan: Yazidi women who were detained by IS seven years ago are still fighting for justice. The Iraqi government passed legislation that qualifies IS’s treatment of Yazidis as genocide. The Yazidi Female Survivor Law, meanwhile, demands the Iraqi government to compensate Yazidi female IS survivors. Afghanistan: Since the Taliban retook control in Afghanistan, women […]
Written by Melike 1 in 10 female students in Dutch Universities (11%) have been raped, sexually penetrated against their will, during their studies at a University (Amnesty International, 2021). Shocking? Well, think about the fact that this doesn’t even include sexual assault, harassment or sexual violence. Unbelievable? Not really. A study by De Haas in […]