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Feminist Fightback is a collective developed out of conferences in 2006 and 2007. On 14 February 09, along with other feminist and activist groups, we organised a conference on the theme Gender, Race and Class. We're inspired by the politics of a range of anti-capitalist feminist struggles, and believe that no single oppression can be challenged in isolation from all other forms of exploitation that intersect with it. More...
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Next Meeting 7-9pm Wednesday 8th September 2010 @ Oxford House, Derbyshire Street E2 (5 minutes walk from Bethnal Green tube). Open to all self-defining women. You are welcome to bring your children to the meeting but if you would like us to organise a creche please email in advance.

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Another Valentine’s Day Special

‘Sex, Work, and Sex Work: Building a feminist analysis and a feminist struggle’
Sunday, 14th Feb, 4-7pm at The Foundry, 86 Great Eastern St
London EC2A 3JL (nearest tube Old Street)
What does understanding sex work as labour bring to our analysis of prostitution? How might it change the way sex workers and feminists fight exploitation and violence? When is sex work and when is it play?  What new ways of ‘workplace’ organizing need to emerge in order to engage with other forms of ‘affective’ labour or care work?
Film screening @ 4pm ‘Estrellas de la Linea’ (2006) Documentary about Guatemala City sex workers who form a football team to challenge stigmatisation and fight exploitation.
Followed by a discussion with feminists, sex workers and researchers.
It might be useful to have a read of the below in advance. Email us if you cannot access a copy on line.
Noah D. Zatz , ‘Sex Work/Sex Act: Law, Labor, and Desire in Constructions of Prostitution’, Signs, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Winter, 1997), pp. 277-308
www.feministfightback.org.uk, email feminist.fightback@gmail.com

January 30, 2010 | Activism + Events
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