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:
Free Them All: A Call to Abolish the Prison System by Gwenola Ricordeau – 25th August at 16:30 in NieuwLand
On Sunday 25th August we’ll talk about Free them all: A feminist call to abolish the prisons ystem (2023) by Gwenola Ricordeau, translated by Emma Ramadan and Tom Roberge
In Free them all we are asked to consider the specifically feminist importance of prison abolition, and our looking to it connects closely to some of our amazing past reads by Angela Davis and Mariame Kaba, among others, and to our upcoming September book, Revolting prostitutes: The fight for sex workers’ rights
From the publisher:
‘The mainstream feminist movement has proposed “locking up the bad men,” and called on prisons, the legal system, and the state to protect women from misogynist violence. This carceral approach to feminism, activist and scholar Gwenola Ricordeau argues, does not make women safer: it harms women, including victims of violence, and in particular people of color, poor people, and LGBTQ people’
We’ll meet in NieuwLand on Sunday 25th August at 16:30.
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, who know of the importance of places like this, which exist alternative to an individualistic society, capitalist economy and
gentrifying neighbourhoods.
NieuwLand is wheelchair accessible but the toilets are not. The nearest public spaces with larger toilets are Wereld Museum Amsterdam (open Tuesday-Saturday 10-17) and hotel The Manor (open 24/7)
If you have access needs regarding the event that you feel may not be in place please get in contact with us so that we can do our best to incorporate these. If you have difficulties getting hold of the text, also reach out to us and we will try to help. You can send an
email to feministbookclubamsterdam@gmail.com or you can send the feminist book club Amsterdam a message on facebook
To learn more about NieuwLand visit their website (https://nieuwland.cc)
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 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 and discussing with you!
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33. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights by Molly Smith & Juno Mac – 15th September at 16:30 in NieuwLand
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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)