The Feminist Club Amsterdam
Beach handball: the bikini will no longer be mandatory for women players. In the last months, there have been a lot of discussions around the sexualisation of women in sports because of the very unequal clothes rules that can be found in the beach handball regulations for instance. DRC: Women have to raise funds to […]
Do you want to see some prison-themed movies which are not played out The Green Mile or The Shawshank Redemption? I gotcha. I have for you four great recommendations: one about women’s prison, one documentary about a prison industrial complex in the US, one psychological character study during interrogations in the polish prison during soviet […]
Iran: Iranian women were allowed back into stadiums after two years on the occasion of the national team’s match versus South Korea. The restriction was enacted after 1979 to protect women from the actions of men. France: In Paris, at the Invalides, the organisation OSA (Objectif Sport Adapté) organised a fashion show with 16 amputee […]
Illustration: Ines DeRu pamela varelapavamere.la Feminism and cyberfeminism in Latin America are a praxis of their own. The lack of privilege and education that runs through the region generates a collective dissociation from the academic and conceptual feminisms of North America and Europe. I recently attended an online workshop1 held by Argentinian feminist hacktivists Sol […]
Criminals, offenders, psychopaths, horrible people capable of unimaginable things – is the image most of us have of imprisoned people. This image of them justifies the conditions they live under in prison – because society says they deserve it. However, don’t we want them to ultimately learn from their mistakes and be rehabilitated into society? […]
This month we are diving into the theme of Prison. I realised I didn’t know what prisons are actually like in the Netherlands, and how the prisons contributed to criminality, so I tried to find this out. It was quite hard to find the real deal with prisons. Mainly info on all the great looking […]