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 more generally 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:
Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation (2025) by Sophie Lewis on 11th January at 16:30 in NieuwLand
Our next read is going to be Enemy Feminisms, in which Sophie Lewis explores the history of extremist feminist movements (such as anti-abortionist and anti-trans feminists, KKK feminists, pornophobes), and the way they are holding back a larger globalized feminist movement from bringing forth the change we so wish to see in the world.
This book relates directly to the conversation we had in our previous meeting, about whether we should call TERFs (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists) feminists or completely remove them from our movement, and about how we approach these people that are full of hate and self righteousness.
The book is available to order online through Savannah Bay, a cozy queer independent bookshop in the heart of Utrecht: https://www.savannahbay.nl/shop/non-fictie/feminisme/enemy-feminisms-sop…
For those who prefer to shop in person, the lovely feminist bookshop Het Fort van Sjakoo in Amsterdam is likely to have a few copies in stock, and they are very open to order this book for you (or any other book to enlarge your feminist literature collection) if they happen to be sold out – https://sjakoo.nl/en/
Here is what the Savannah Bay Website has to say about the book:
“From the author of Abolish the Family, an unflinching tour of two hundred years of enemy feminisms, making the case instead for the bold, liberatory feminist politics we need. In recent years, “white feminism” and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won’t make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to reckon with what Western feminism has wrought if we have any hope of building the feminist world we need. Sophie Lewis offers an unflinching tour of enemy feminisms, from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today’s anti-abortion and TERF feminists. Enemy feminisms exist.”
“Feminism is not an inherent political good. Only when we acknowledge that can we finally reckon with the ways these feminisms have pushed us toward counterproductive and even violent ends. And only then can we finally engage in feminist strategizing that is truly antifascist.”
“At once a left transfeminist battlecry against cisness, a decolonial takedown of nationalist womanhoods, and a sex-radical retort to femmephobia in all its guises, Enemy Feminisms is above all a fierce, brilliant love letter to feminism.”
Keep in mind that NieuwLand is an entirely independent venue that receives no government subsidies and is fully volunteer-run; there will be a donation jar and qr code so that anyone can support the venue if they wish to help us keep these events going. To learn more about NieuwLand and their events please check out their website, https://nieuwland.cc, they always have a very active social calendar.
If you have any specific accessibility needs regarding the event please do get in touch with us and we will try our best to accommodate them.
If you want to attend the session but find it difficult to get hold of the book we will try to help.
At 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 behaviours we hope for from you, and hold ourselves to in our sessions http://www.thefeministclub.nl/coc
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:
- Feminism, Interrupted by Lola Olufemi (24.09.2020)
- Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall (29.10.2020)
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (10.12.2020)
- Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine (21.01.2021)
- The Will to Change by bell hooks (04.03.2021)
- The Power by Naomi Alderman (15.04.2021)
- Whipping Girl by Julia Serano (20.05.2021)
- Ecofeminism by Maria Mies & Vandana Shiva (08.07.2021)
- Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (28.10.2021)
- We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba (25.11.2021)
- I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (02.02.2022)
- The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland by Joanna Mishtal (09.03.2022)
- Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed (12.04.2022)
- The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams (24.05.2022)
- Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi (27.07.2022)
- Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism & Black Veganism From Two Sisters by Aph Ko & Syl Ko (16.09.2022)
- A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century by Donna Haraway (02.10.2022)
- A Decolonial Feminism by Françoise Vergès (06.11.2022)
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (04.12.2022)
- Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie Lewis (05.02.2023)
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (02.04.2023)
- Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena (07.05.2023)
- Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (04.06.2023)
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez (02.07.2023)
- White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race by Gloria Wekker (22.10.2023)
- Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism and Palestine by Nada Elia (19.11.2023)
- Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back by Julia Serano (10.12.2023)
- Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis (21.01.2024)
- Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici (17.03.2024)
- Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty (19.05.2024)
- King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes (14.07.2024)
- Free Them All: A Call to Abolish the Prison System by Gwenola Ricordeau (25.08.2024)
- Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers Rights’ by Molly Smith & Juno Mac (15.09.2024)
- Tomorrow Sex Will be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent by Katherine Angel (17.11.2024)
- I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé (19.01.2025)
- Counter-sexual Manifesto by Paul B. Preciado (06.03.2025)
- Earthseed Series: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (18.05.2025)
- Earthseed Series: Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler (20.07.2025)
- Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon (21.09.2025)
- 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)