Book Club

If you love reading and talking about feminism this book club is for you.

Through reading and discussion we want to explore intersectional feminist texts that critically and reflectively engage with our worlds as they are, and open up our imaginations to the worlds that could be.

This group is for anyone who is interested in learning and discussing feminist texts with others, and anyone who has an eye on changing the status quo.

Like the FCA more generally we aim to be a harassment free space for everybody. If you are new to our meetings, or feel you need a refresher please read our code of conduct to find out what behaviors we hope for from you, and hold ourselves to in our sessions (http://www.thefeministclub.nl/coc)

Everyone who participates can suggest texts for future sessions.

Future reads:

Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry, by adrienne maree brown on the 15th of March upstairs in NieuwLand at 16:30

The time has come to announce our next read! In this kaleidoscopic collection, adrienne maree brown explores themes of existence, loneliness, marginalization and liberation. It is impossible to narrow this collection down into a single genre; brown’s writings build upon each other to create a wonderful cascade of hope and dreams, a call to imagine a better future for oneself and the community around you. 

To purchase the book there are a few options. In Amsterdam, the book is available to pick up/order at the lovely bookshop Het Fort van Sjakoo, which also always has a great collection of feminist literature to further diversify you bookshelves – https://sjakoo.nl/en/

If you are based in Utrecht you can send an email to the lovely bookstore Bijleveld, and they will promptly order it for you. In my experience it takes around 4 working days for the book to arrive at the bookstore (and if you are picking it up yourself there I would recommend perusing their selection, as they always have the most amazing picks out) – https://www.boekhandelbijleveld.nl/bestel-een-boek/

Finally, the book (as well as its digital and audio versions) is also available to order directly from the publisher’s web page – https://www.akpress.org/fablesandspells.html 

Here is what brown’s own website has to say about the book: 

“Fables and Spells is a vibrant selection of visionary works, both previously published and brand new. Included here is brown’s most beloved story, “The River,” as well as the two sequel tales of her Water Trio. The remaining sixty-seven pieces explore moments of beauty, conflict, and transformation that also weave deep, radical lessons. With narrative “fables” of speculative fiction and “spells” that play with the lines between poetry, instruction, song, and chant, Fables and Spells demonstrates how good writing can engage the present while providing expansive visions of the possible worlds humans can build.” 

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Our previous reads:

  • Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis (15.01.2026)

  • Feminism for the World by Lola Olufemi, Françoise Vergès, Silvia Federici, Verónica Gago, Zahra Ali, Rama Salla Dieng, Sayak Valencia & Djamila Ribeiro (16.11.2025)

  • Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon (21.09.2025)

  • Earthseed Series: Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler (20.07.2025)

  • Earthseed Series: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (18.05.2025)

  • Counter-sexual Manifesto by Paul B. Preciado (06.03.2025)

  • I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé (19.01.2025)

  • Tomorrow Sex Will be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent by Katherine Angel (17.11.2024)

  • Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers Rights’ by Molly Smith & Juno Mac (15.09.2024)

  • Free Them All: A Call to Abolish the Prison System by Gwenola Ricordeau (25.08.2024)

  • King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes (14.07.2024)

  • Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty (19.05.2024)

  • Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici (17.03.2024)

  • Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis (21.01.2024)

  • Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back by Julia Serano (10.12.2023)

  • Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism and Palestine by Nada Elia (19.11.2023) 

  • White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race by Gloria Wekker (22.10.2023)

  • Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez (02.07.2023)

  • Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (04.06.2023)

  • Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena (07.05.2023)

  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (02.04.2023)

  • Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie Lewis (05.02.2023)

  • Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (04.12.2022)

  • A Decolonial Feminism by Françoise Vergès (06.11.2022)

  • A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century by Donna Haraway (02.10.2022)

  • Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism & Black Veganism From Two Sisters by Aph Ko & Syl Ko (16.09.2022) 

  • Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi (27.07.2022)

  • The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams (24.05.2022)

  • Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed (12.04.2022)

  • The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland by Joanna Mishtal (09.03.2022)

  • I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (02.02.2022)

  • We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba (25.11.2021)

  • Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (28.10.2021)

  • Ecofeminism by Maria Mies & Vandana Shiva (08.07.2021)

  • Whipping Girl by Julia Serano (20.05.2021)

  • The Power by Naomi Alderman (15.04.2021)

  • The Will to Change by bell hooks (04.03.2021)

  • Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine (21.01.2021)

  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (10.12.2020)

  • Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall (29.10.2020)

  • Feminism, Interrupted by Lola Olufemi  (24.09.2020)