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art work

Photographs by Julia Rose

Artist statement: “This selection of photographs/collages particularly reflects on the structures, traditions and representations that police the female body, influencing and restraining our own perception. By contrasting images of my body with additional visual information I aim to form a dialogue between my idea of Self and the structures which contextualize my body and exert […]

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Music

Creating a Feminist Playlist

In the first week of September we got together to listen to feminist songs. Beforehand, we asked our members to contribute to a playlist online, and we had well over 50 submissions. You can find the entire playlist on Youtube or follow it on Spotify. Listening to the music and watching the music videos led […]

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General

Why we decided to ask an entrance fee

In 6 days, we’re starting our 3rd season of Discussion Nights. Since our first meeting (reading Simone de Beauvoir in someone’s living room) a lot has changed. Today, I want to discuss a particular change: why we decided to ask an entrance fee.  Up to now, we’ve asked for donations. After a meeting with all […]

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opinion

Violence against women: a men’s issue?

  I like to think that pretty much everyone in society is in agreement on this: violence against women, gender-based violence, and violence in general, is bad. So why is something that’s generally agreed to be bad so prevalent? Why does one in three women worldwide still experience physical or sexual violence at some point […]

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Sunday Feminist Discussion

Violence against women as a men’s issue

On the 13th of June The Feminist Club Amsterdam is organizing a discussion night in collaboration with Emancipator. This night we will discuss violence against women as a men’s issue. We will ask the question, should violence against women be seen as a men’s issue, and what kinds of activism we might be able to […]

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art work

Feminist Artwork by Elisabeth Schön

Elisabeth Schön usually makes work centered around the theme of the marginalization of motherhood but since the US elections her work has become very political. Elisabeth works with photography, media images, collage, and embroidery and tends to combine those elements. You can follow her on Facebook and on Instagram. (you can click the images to see […]