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:
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé – 19th January at 16:30 in NieuwLand
Our next read and discussion will be about I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé, written in 1986
Description of the book from https://salemwitchmuseum.com/ –
“ I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem is an award winning novel by author Maryse Condé. In this book, Condé imagines the life of Tituba: one of the most fascinating and influential women in American history. In 1692, Tituba was a slave of Reverend Samuel Parris. She was one of the first individuals accused of witchcraft in Salem Village, and one of the first to confess. Little is known of Tituba beyond what appears in 17th century trial records, and she has fascinated historians and history lovers for more than three hundred years.
About her book, Condé says, “… I decided I was going to write her story out of my own dreams. … Tituba is the opposite of a historical novel. I was not interested at all in what her real life could have been. … I really invented Tituba. I gave her a childhood, an adolescence, an old age.”
We’ll meet on Sunday 19th January 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
To learn more about NieuwLand visit their website (https://nieuwland.cc)
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 feministbookclubamsterdam[@]gmail.com
If you want to attend the session but find it difficult to get hold of the book we will try to help
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 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)