The Feminist Club Amsterdam

Written by Arthur Guillaume-Gentil The worldwide #Metoo movement certainly represents “one of the most profound ‘moments’ in anti-sexual violence activism in recent histories” as it enabled survivors of sexual violence to speak about it as well as challenge patriarchal structures in place. Despite LGBTQI+ individuals facing comparable, if not higher, levels of sexual violence as […]

Article by Zoé Drawing by Dionne On legal prohibitions and the so-called “Reverse racism”  Sometimes, your thoughts appear to meet at a cosmic intersection, everything coinciding and suddenly unlocking another level of understanding about your reality. In this three-part story, I share my perception of denied racism in France, the country I grew up in. […]

June is pride month: check the article on pride to learn more about it. USA: Biden will increase the number of Afro-American women judges in the federal courts of appeal. Currently, only four of these judges are Afro-American women which is 2 % of the judges whereas Afro-American women represent 7% of the US citizens. […]

HISTORY OF PRIDE Pride started as a protest against police harassment towards the LGBTQ+ community, in New York City (NYC). The origin of pride is the famous “Stonewall riots” in reference to Stonewall Inn where the uprising happened on June 28, 1969, in NYC. At this period, homosexual relations were only legal in Illinois, USA. […]

By Hana Elramly As of March 2020, the world was hit by a ‘double pandemic’; Covid-19 and a surge in domestic violence cases across the globe. In France, a 30% spike in intimate partner violence (IPV) was documented in 2020. IPV refers to “sexual assault by a current or former intimate partner and includes sexual […]