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 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:

You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat. On 12th July, upstairs in NieuwLand at 16:30

Our next read and discussion will be Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much, first published in 2021.

From blurb:

Told in vignettes that flash between the US and the Middle East, Zaina Arafat’s powerful debut novel traces her protagonist’s progress from blushing teen to creative and confused adulthood. In Brooklyn, she moves into an apartment with her first serious girlfriend and tries to content herself with their comfortable relationship. Soon, her longings, so deeply hidden during her teenage years, explode out into reckless romantic encounters and obsessions with other people, which results in her seeking unconventional help to face her past traumas and current demons.

We’ll meet on Sunday 12th July at 16:30, upstairs in NieuwLand. Unfortunately, upstairs is not wheelchair accessible. If you have access needs regarding the event please get in touch and we can see what is possible.

There will be a donation ‘jar’ for contributing to NieuwLand (cash or pin). Please think about donating something if you are able; a place like NieuwLand can only exist through the contributions of volunteers and friends, who know of the importance of these places, which exist as alternatives to an individualistic society, capitalist economy and gentrifying neighbourhoods. To learn more about NieuwLand visit their website (https://nieuwland.cc).

The beautiful Het Fort van Sjakoo in Amsterdam has a copy listed as being in stock and is usually open to be contacted if you want to order something they do not have https://sjakoo.nl/product/you-exist-too-much-paperback/ In Utrecht, there’s the lovely Savannah Bay and their webshop. If you want to attend the session but are finding it difficult to get hold of the book, reach out and we will try to help – often people within our community have suggestions that help us avoid giving more pennies to giant companies.

We don’t have a fixed structure to our meetings and everybody who comes is encouraged to participate however they wish. If there are topics or questions you would like to discuss please bring those with you! We are looking forward to seeing you!

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Our previous reads:

  • Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Worlds, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin (10.05.2026)

  • Fables and Spells by adrienne maree brown (15.03.2026)

  • 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)