The Feminist Club Amsterdam
Look back at your childhood. Were you allowed to be mad? Who in your family was allowed to express anger and who wasn’t? I learned as a child that expressing anger hurt more than it helped. Little girls who were dutiful were loveable and angry girls weren’t. Little girls were also responsible for managing the […]
The FCA joined 20,000 people on Dam Square for Amsterdam’s 2025 edition of the Feminist March. Some of our members shared what the day meant for them and how they view the act of protesting in these times. What happened at the Feminist March? ALEXIA described what she saw. “This year’s feminist march was an […]
Our discussion afternoon on the topic of ‘Trad Wives’ was one of the most-attended FCA discussions in a while with around 20 people joining. Below, we summarise the main discussion points. For more information, also check out the resources at the end of the summary! What is a ‘trad wife’ and what is the trad […]
This is a summary of what was discussed on 25 February, 2024 on the topic of financial feminism. At the Sunday discussion on financial feminism, one of the main questions was how to not perpetuate a growth-oriented exploitative system while this system is forcing us to take care of our financial and thus existential security […]
“Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. […] Women, then, have not had a dog’s chance of writing poetry.” A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf What personal wisdom or advice would […]
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept”. ~ Angela Davis Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis is the first book on intersectional feminism that I have ever read. As the title promises, the book describes the historical development of the feminist movement in […]