The Feminist Club Amsterdam
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 […]
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 […]