Book Club

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 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:

Making Death and Life in Palestine: Social Reproduction in Settler Colonialism (2025) edited by Tithi Bhattacharya and Susan Ferguson. On 27th September, upstairs in NieuwLand at 18:00

In this collection of essays leading feminists come together to talk about social reproduction theory in relation to Palestine.

If the daily renewal of human life is essential to function in this capitalist world of ours, what happens and what does it mean for a person living under it, when the ambition of a settler coloniser power is to eradicate life, and undermine social reproduction in as many ways as possible?
Here, by examining historical and specific manifestations of Israel’s attacks on social reproduction in Palestine, as well as Palestinian life affirming resistance to these, the theory of social reproduction is reshaped and refined, capitalism and its inherent violence is critiqued, and we encounter another base of understanding aimed towards solidarity.

🍉 Free Palestine 🍉

*The undisputable foundation of this discussion is the right of the Palestinian people to live in their homeland as free and equal citizens. It is not up for dispute that there is an ongoing genocide.

The text is 192 pages.

There will be a donation jar and some refreshments available (cash or pin). Please think about donating something if you are able – a place like NieuwLand can only exist through the contributions of volunteers and friends. To learn more about NieuwLand visit their website https://nieuwland.cc

We will be meeting upstairs which is not wheelchair accessible. If you have access needs regarding the event please get in contact with us so that we can do our best to incorporate these.

The text is available as an (e)book on the website of its publisher, Pluto Press https://www.plutobooks.com/product/making-death-and-life-in-palestine/

The beautiful Het Fort van Sjakoo in Amsterdam is able to order the book for you. It’s good to place an order with them sooner rather than later, as the wholesaler is out of stock (but expecting to be restocked soon). Mention that the book is for a bookclub and you may be offered a discount https://sjakoo.nl/product/making-death-and-life-in-palestine/

In Utrecht the awesome Savannah Bay has said they can order the book and you can do this online, and it should take 1 – 2 weeks for the book to arrive ( but again could be longer depending on the wholesaler) https://www.savannahbay.nl/

If you want to attend the session but find it difficult to get hold of the book we will try to help so reach out to us.

If there are topics or questions you would like to discuss please bring these with you. We lead a pretty structure-free discussion so rely on those attending to direct where we go.

We are looking forward to seeing and discussing with you!

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Our previous reads:

  • You Exist too Much by Zaina Arafat (12.07.2026)

  • Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Worlds, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin (10.05.2026)

  • Fables and Spells by adrienne maree brown (15.03.2026)

  • Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis (15.01.2026)

  • 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)

  • Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon (21.09.2025)

  • Earthseed Series: Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler (20.07.2025)

  • Earthseed Series: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (18.05.2025)

  • Counter-sexual Manifesto by Paul B. Preciado (06.03.2025)

  • I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé (19.01.2025)

  • Tomorrow Sex Will be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent by Katherine Angel (17.11.2024)

  • Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers Rights’ by Molly Smith & Juno Mac (15.09.2024)

  • Free Them All: A Call to Abolish the Prison System by Gwenola Ricordeau (25.08.2024)

  • King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes (14.07.2024)

  • Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty (19.05.2024)

  • Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici (17.03.2024)

  • Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis (21.01.2024)

  • Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back by Julia Serano (10.12.2023)

  • Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism and Palestine by Nada Elia (19.11.2023) 

  • White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race by Gloria Wekker (22.10.2023)

  • Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez (02.07.2023)

  • Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (04.06.2023)

  • Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena (07.05.2023)

  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (02.04.2023)

  • Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie Lewis (05.02.2023)

  • Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (04.12.2022)

  • A Decolonial Feminism by Françoise Vergès (06.11.2022)

  • A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century by Donna Haraway (02.10.2022)

  • Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism & Black Veganism From Two Sisters by Aph Ko & Syl Ko (16.09.2022) 

  • Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi (27.07.2022)

  • The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams (24.05.2022)

  • Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed (12.04.2022)

  • The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland by Joanna Mishtal (09.03.2022)

  • I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (02.02.2022)

  • We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba (25.11.2021)

  • Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (28.10.2021)

  • Ecofeminism by Maria Mies & Vandana Shiva (08.07.2021)

  • Whipping Girl by Julia Serano (20.05.2021)

  • The Power by Naomi Alderman (15.04.2021)

  • The Will to Change by bell hooks (04.03.2021)

  • Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine (21.01.2021)

  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (10.12.2020)

  • Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall (29.10.2020)

  • Feminism, Interrupted by Lola Olufemi  (24.09.2020)