The Feminist Club Amsterdam
“The Strike of Mecca” A short story from the series of 1001 nights of “NOT your Scheherazade” by Samar Zughool. In 2011, I went to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, with my mother. I did not go there for answers; I already had them, but I went in my search for closure! For any kind of closure! […]
night-sky-colored eyes encircled by stalks of dancing eyelashes she stares at passersby in the street speaking a language without words herd of willing humans at her hooves she leads us in silence prancing past admiration and disapproval alike explaining how animals are individuals too and how the earth is queer as hell did you know […]
I recently attended a virtual lecture from the scholar and feminist activist Silvia Federici about her book Caliban and the Witch. Professor Federici researched the European witch hunts because she wanted to understand the causes of the particular forms of discrimination that women have suffered in capitalist society and how they could be traced back […]
a poem by Jessica Lentz NB: the format of our website interferes with the spatial format of the poem. check out this link to see the original poem as it was intended. arriving at the peak of pleasure she thrusts a flag into the ground gliding gloating grinning glowing glorious she turns her gaze to […]
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Therefore, the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.” (World Health Organisation 1946). […]
By Jessica Lentz Slouching, her flesh dangerously spilling from her lacey corset, she erupts like a volcano into a fit of laughter. Unforgiving, her head tilted back, she draws people’s attention calling forth irritation, but also hypnosis as if each gurgling exhale carried with it the […]