The Feminist Club Amsterdam
Directed by Lisa and written by Eva, Motion draws on Maya Deren’s legacy to explore what it means to feel stuck, to search for meaning, and to inhabit a body shaped by expectation. The film resists traditional storytelling, instead moving through sensations, fragments, and emotions — tracing the quiet dissonance of womanhood through image, rhythm, […]
Arriving at the sea;______with a tender ferocity On a day; thick with summer’s heatslowly& softlysweat submerges me laying the basket fullof ripe peaches, melons and kiwis I gently devour the dew kissed peachdripping with sweetness;______It’s reminiscent of honey ______Then, swiftly getting ready;To surf the waves As smooth as velvet, feather & a breeze surging into […]
Dear Hanaa, The First Generation of labels: Second Generation of labels A chronological disorder of home. Maybe it is the resistance to the normalized order. An intellectual, emotional transition that transfers home from solid ground to a global sky where anything could feel like home, and anyone can make a home. And this is overly […]
As I stay immersing in my mirrorThe reflection seems to come alive It sways; a dance of illuminating light I see; in every creasein every fold in every mark, of me Is where I find my peace In my frame, in my skinin my singular sculpture I feel my;evergreen grace A steadying sensation A feeling; only I embrace a quiet joy;In a place […]
Rummaging through the toy room for a childhood gone by unlocks a memory film scroll inside my head:it rolls out; like an endless red carpetleading us back– to our infant past. With a flickering crackle, the memory unravels, starringpink-trimmed, blonde-haired Barbie dolls living inwhole universes we created at the dropof a head. Yes. In shrieking […]
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 […]