The Feminist Club Amsterdam
In the first week of September we got together to listen to feminist songs. Beforehand, we asked our members to contribute to a playlist online, and we had well over 50 submissions. You can find the entire playlist on Youtube or follow it on Spotify. Listening to the music and watching the music videos led […]
In 6 days, we’re starting our 3rd season of Discussion Nights. Since our first meeting (reading Simone de Beauvoir in someone’s living room) a lot has changed. Today, I want to discuss a particular change: why we decided to ask an entrance fee. Up to now, we’ve asked for donations. After a meeting with all […]
I like to think that pretty much everyone in society is in agreement on this: violence against women, gender-based violence, and violence in general, is bad. So why is something that’s generally agreed to be bad so prevalent? Why does one in three women worldwide still experience physical or sexual violence at some point […]
On the 13th of June The Feminist Club Amsterdam is organizing a discussion night in collaboration with Emancipator. This night we will discuss violence against women as a men’s issue. We will ask the question, should violence against women be seen as a men’s issue, and what kinds of activism we might be able to […]
Elisabeth Schön usually makes work centered around the theme of the marginalization of motherhood but since the US elections her work has become very political. Elisabeth works with photography, media images, collage, and embroidery and tends to combine those elements. You can follow her on Facebook and on Instagram. (you can click the images to see […]
In the first week of April we had a discussion night on abortion. It was not the first time that we paid attention to this fundamental human right. We’ve had a discussion night on the topic back in October of 2016 and we organized a benefit for Women on Waves before that. Therefore we decided […]