The Feminist Club Amsterdam
Photo by Emma Grima pamela varelapavamere.la Activism is the effort to change politics. Pleasure activism1 is making the pursuit of social justice a pleasurable experience. Dance as pleasure (activism) is using the joy of the body as a tool to fight for transformation. To break away from the framework of norms within which we have […]
Poem by Gertrude Stein pamela varelapavamere.la My body is my territory, and it was conquered, just like the Americas. Several parts of the human body are named after white, European men: Fallopian tubes1, G-spot2, Bartholin’s glands3, Skene glands4, to name a few. All the body parts mentioned above belong to the female reproductive system. It […]
Photo: Mónica González Islas pamela varelapavamere.la Ophelia Pastrana is a Colombian-Mexican trans woman. She is a physicist, technologist, and media personality who, despite being the relative of two ex-presidents of Colombia from the conservative party, transitioned into a trans woman and became an advocate of the LGBTQ+ and women+technology movements. She recognizes having used her […]
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 […]
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 […]
pamela varelapavamere.la Our body, our first territory, is unknown to us. We are not encouraged to get to know it. We are not taught about its parts, especially girls, especially genitals. And because everything is so internal, it is hard to see, to understand its cycles. When adulthood starts and processes like menstruation arrive, confusion […]