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:
White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race (2016) by Gloria Wekker on Sunday 22nd October at 16, at NieuwLand
In this text Wekker “explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia […] Wekker analyzes the Dutch media’s portrayal of black women and men, the failure to grasp race in the Dutch academy, contemporary conservative politics (including gay politicians espousing anti-immigrant rhetoric), and the controversy surrounding the folkloric character Black Pete, showing how the denial of racism and the expression of innocence safeguards white privilege”
– From https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26029077-white- innocence
We’ll meet on Sunday 22nd October at 16, and our home for this event is the lovely NieuwLand in Amsterdam Oost (https://nieuwland.cc)
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 neighborhoods
NieuwLand is wheelchair accessible but the toilets are not
The nearest public spaces with larger toilets are Tropen Museum (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
We understand that it can be daunting to attend events where you don’t yet know anyone. If you feel worried or socially anxious about attending and would like to meet first, reach out
If you want to attend the session but money reasons make it difficult for you to get hold of the book we will try to help
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- Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back by Julia Serano (date tbd)
- Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis (date tbd)
Find our events and connect with us:
www.meetup.com/Amsterdam-Feminist-Book-Club/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/feministbookclubamsterdam/
https://www.facebook.com/thefeministclubamsterdam/
https://www.instagram.com/feministclubamsterdam/
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/feminist-club-amsterdam-0/events
feministbookclubamsterdam[@]gmail.com
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)