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Feminist Strike for Liberation, 8th March 2025

This 8th of March once more we joined the International Feminist Strike to march with thousands of our [...]

October 20, 2023

Feminist Fightback Statement of Solidarity with Palestine
October 3, 2023

Report back on 2nd of September action
March 14, 2023

January 2023 workshop on the Gender Politics of the Hard Right
March 9, 2023

Sexual harassment at the TSSA Union: The Kennedy report

Upcoming Events

Jul 14

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Feminist Fightback reading group: Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity Part 3

Jul 20

3:30 pm - 6:00 pm

July organising meeting

Jul 25

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Feminist Fightback Filmclub: Incompatible with Life

Aug 28

6:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Feminist Fightback Filmclub & Cine Brazil: Verde-Esperanza

Sep 15

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Feminist Fightback reading group: Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas

Sep 26

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Feminist Fightback filmclub: Roma (2018)

Oct 13

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Feminist Fightback reading group: Why would feminists trust the police – Part 1

Nov 10

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Feminist Fightback reading group: Why would feminists trust the police? – Part 2

TONIGHT 🎬Join Feminist Fightback for a lighthea

TONIGHT 🎬Join Feminist Fightback for a lighthearted, festive film screening this November, on Friday the 29th of November.

🍿We’ll be showing Polite Society, a 2023 movie about a rebellious teenager named Ria Khan who tries to save her older sister Lena from an unwanted marriage: Ria, a martial artist-in-training, enlists her friends to help her pull off a wedding heist to prove that her sister’s suitor is not a good match.

🎞Content includes: martial arts combat & mild violence; some swearing, mild drugs and drinking.

🔥Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points very much encouraged.

🎟Suggested donations on the door £2/5/10 unwaged/waged/solidarity.

🥤Drinks and snacks will be available for purchase.

All genders welcome.

⏰Doors open at 7pm.

📽The screening will be at Vibast Community Centre, 267 Old Street, London EC1V 9NH. It is about 3 minutes walking from Old Street station, or the 55 and 243 buses stop just in front. The venue is accessible and has accessible toilets.

📚Join Feminist Fightback for our winter reading

📚Join Feminist Fightback for our winter reading group book: A Short History of Trans Misogyny By Jules Gill-Peterson.

📖This book offers a refreshing intervention into the historical underpinnings of misogyny against trans women. Taking a global approach, Jules Gill-Peterson demonstrates that trans misogyny was not inevitable, it was created within certain historical conditions. Throughout, Gill-Peterson details examples of trans feminism that challenged colonial governments, policing, and exploitative working conditions. In drawing on this rich history, Gill-Peterson offers new ways of thinking about and fighting against modern trans misogyny.

📖The book is 192 pages long. We will discuss this book in three sessions as follows:

🗓Monday 9th of December (61 pages):
* Introduction: Femmes against Trans
* Chapter 1 The Global Trans Panic
* Defense of self, defense of the nation
🗓Monday 13th of January (36 pages):
* Chapter 2 Sex and the Antebellum City
🗓Monday 10th of February (58 pages)
* Chapter 3. Queens of the Gay World
* Conclusion: Mujerísima and Scarcity Feminism

👀Please come having read the relevant chapters. Drop us a line if you would like more details at feminist.fightback@gmail.com.

📚The book is only available in hardback at £14.99. If you need help getting a copy of the book due to the high costs, please email feminist.fightback@gmail.com and we will assist you.

📍All sessions will take place at the Sir Ralph Perring Centre, Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y 0SA. This is in Golden Lane Estate by the swimming pool and tennis court.

The venue is fully accessible. Please arrive at 7.00 for 7.15 start; we will finish at 8.30pm. All genders welcome.

🎬Join Feminist Fightback for a lighthearted, fe

🎬Join Feminist Fightback for a lighthearted, festive film screening this November, on Friday the 29th of November.

🍿We’ll be showing Polite Society, a 2023 movie about a rebellious teenager named Ria Khan who tries to save her older sister Lena from an unwanted marriage: Ria, a martial artist-in-training, enlists her friends to help her pull off a wedding heist to prove that her sister’s suitor is not a good match.

🎞Content includes: martial arts combat & mild violence; some swearing, mild drugs and drinking.

🔥Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points very much encouraged.

🎟Suggested donations on the door £2/5/10 unwaged/waged/solidarity.

🥤Drinks and snacks will be available for purchase.

All genders welcome.

⏰Doors open at 7pm.

📽The screening will be at Vibast Community Centre, 267 Old Street, London EC1V 9NH. It is about 3 minutes walking from Old Street station, or the 55 and 243 buses stop just in front. The venue is accessible and has accessible toilets.

All set up and ready for the day! We’re very hap

All set up and ready for the day! We’re very happy with our merch. Come check them out and have a chat with us! #londonanarchistbookfair @bookfairldn

More merch for the Anarchist Bookfair! @bookfairld

More merch for the Anarchist Bookfair! @bookfairldn Saturday is almost here!

Saturday 12 October 11am-5pm at Richmix on Bethnal Green road. See you there!

Busy preparing merch for the Anarchist Bookfair. @

Busy preparing merch for the Anarchist Bookfair. @bookfairldn Are you as excited as us for saturday?

Saturday 12 October 11am-5pm at Richmix on Bethnal Green road. Come and say hi!

📚Monday 30 September, join Feminist Fightback f

📚Monday 30 September, join Feminist Fightback for the final installment of our summer reading group. We will be discussing chapters 7 and 8 of Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence, by Elsa Dorlan and translated from the french by Kieran Aarons.

📖This book is a study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation. In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies “worthy of defending” and those who have been disarmed and rendered defenceless.

📖Elsa Dorlin looks across the global history of the left – from slave revolts to the knitting women of the French Revolution and British suffragists’ training in ju-jitsu, from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to the Black Panther Party, from queer neighborhood patrols to Black Lives Matter – to trace the politics, philosophy, and ethics of self defense.

📖The book is 272 pages long. The remaining schedule is as follows:

🗓Monday 30th of September
* Self-defense and safety
* Reprisals

👀Please come having read the relevant chapters. Drop us a line if you would like more details at feminist.fightback@gmail.com.

📚We urge people to buy the book or borrow it from a library, if they can find it, to support the author. However if you are not able to do either, we can provide you with a link to read it online.

📍This will take place at Golden Lane Community Centre, Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y 0SA

The venue is fully accessible. Please arrive at 7.00 for 7.15 start; we will finish at 8.30pm. All genders welcome.

🎬🎬🎬 Join Feminist Fightback for our Septe

🎬🎬🎬 Join Feminist Fightback for our September film showing. This month we are showing Concerning Violence(89min), a 2014 documentary film written and directed by Göran Olsson.

Concerning Violence is a bold and fresh visual narrative of African nationalist and independence movements in the 1960s and 1970s based on archive material from Swedish documentaries covering the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation from colonial rule. This powerful footage is combined with text from Frantz Fanon’s landmark book The Wretched of the Earth – written in 1960 and still a major tool for understanding and illuminating the neocolonialism happening today, as well as the unrest and the reactions against it.

Content warnings: scenes of military violence, descriptions of torture, racist language, scenes of apartheid

Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle very much encouraged. Drinks and snacks will be available.

Suggested donations on the door £2/5/10 unwaged/waged/solidarity.

All genders welcome.

Doors open at 7pm.

ACCESS:

The film showing will take place on the ground floor of Pelican House, in the room at the back of the courtyard. The toilets are on the same same level. The space and toilets are level access from the road.

Closest stations are Bethnal Green tube station and Bethnal Green overground station.

Closest bus stops are Cephas Street and Three Colts Lane for the 106 and 254 buses.

📚TOMORROW Monday 24 June, join Feminist Fightba

📚TOMORROW Monday 24 June, join Feminist Fightback for the second installment of our summer reading group. We will be discussing chapters 3 and 4 of Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence, by Elsa Dorlan and translated from the french by Kieran Aarons.

June’s session will take place at the Sir Ralph Perring Centre. This is in Golden Lane Estate by the swimming pool and tennis court. We have created a what3words for the specific location: https://w3w.co/bump.gums.slice

📖This book is a study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation. In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies “worthy of defending” and those who have been disarmed and rendered defenceless.

📖Elsa Dorlin looks across the global history of the left – from slave revolts to the knitting women of the French Revolution and British suffragists’ training in ju-jitsu, from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to the Black Panther Party, from queer neighborhood patrols to Black Lives Matter – to trace the politics, philosophy, and ethics of self defense.

📖The book is 272 pages long. The remaining schedule is as follows:

🗓Monday 24th of June
* Testaments of self-defense
* The state, or the non-monopoly on legitimate defense
🗓Monday 29th of July
* White justice
* Self-defense: power to the people
🗓Monday 30th of September
* Self-defense and safety
* Reprisals

👀Please come having read the relevant chapters. Drop us a line if you would like more details at feminist.fightback@gmail.com.

📚We urge people to buy the book or borrow it from a library, if they can find it, to support the author. However if you are not able to do either, we can provide you with a link to read it online.

📍The July and September sessions will take place at Golden Lane Community Centre, Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y 0SA

The venues are fully accessible. Please arrive at 7.00 for 7.15 start; we will finish at 8.30pm. All genders welcome.

📚Join Feminist Fightback for our summer reading

📚Join Feminist Fightback for our summer reading group book: Elsa Dorlin’s Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence, translated from the french by Kieran Aarons.

📖This book is a study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation. In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies “worthy of defending” and those who have been disarmed and rendered defenceless.

📖Elsa Dorlin looks across the global history of the left – from slave revolts to the knitting women of the French Revolution and British suffragists’ training in ju-jitsu, from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to the Black Panther Party, from queer neighborhood patrols to Black Lives Matter – to trace the politics, philosophy, and ethics of self defense.

📖The book is 272 pages long. We will discuss this book in four sessions, two chapters at a time:

🗓Tuesday 28th of May
* Prologue, What a body can do
* The production of disarmed bodies
* Defense of self, defense of the nation
🗓Monday 24th of June
* Testaments of self-defense
* The state, or the non-monopoly on legitimate defense
🗓Monday 29th of July
* White justice
* Self-defense: power to the people
🗓Monday 30th of September
* Self-defense and safety
* Reprisals

👀Please come having read the relevant chapters. Drop us a line if you would like more details at feminist.fightback@gmail.com.

📚We urge people to buy the book or borrow it from a library, if they can find it, to support the author. However if you are not able to do either, we can provide you with a link to read it online.

📍As an exception the May session will take place at Vibast Community Centre, 167 Old St, London EC1V 9NH.
📍The June, July and September sessions will take place at Golden Lane Community Centre, Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y 0SA

The venues are fully accessible. Please arrive at 7.00 for 7.15 start; we will finish at 8.30pm. All genders welcome.

Join Feminist Fightback for our May film showing a

Join Feminist Fightback for our May film showing as we screen Her Job (2018, 89min) by Nikos Labôt.

In this slow-burning film about sexism and female emancipation, Panayiota is an illiterate housewife who gets her first job as a cleaner. Over time, she rises up the ranks and gains her family respect; but danger looms as a series of layoffs start.

Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle very much encouraged. Drinks and snacks will be available.

Drinks and snacks will be available.

Suggested donations on the door £2/5/10 unwaged/waged/solidarity.

All genders welcome.

Doors open at 7pm.

ACCESS:
The film showing will take place on the ground floor of Pelican House, in the room at the back of the courtyard. The toilets are on the same same level. The space and toilets are level access from the road.

Closest stations Bethnal Green tube station and Bethnal Green overground station.

Closest bus stops Cephas Street and Three Colts Lane for the 106 and 254 buses.

💜 Calling all Feminists – join us to March th

💜 Calling all Feminists – join us to March this Saturday @ the PSC National Demo – Nakba 76!!! 💜

On Saturday we take to the streets to commemorate the 76th Anniversary of the Nakba, when Zionist forces ethnically cleansed and displaced over 750,000 Palestinians and took over 78% of the land of historic Palestine.

Today and everyday, as feminist we show solidarity to our Palestinian siblings because patriarchy and colonialism are linked as life destroying forces. None of us are free until all of us are free.

We must continue to put pressure on the UK government to demand a full #CeasefireNOW and to stop arming Israel. Britain is complicit in the war crimes and genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinians. We will not stand by and watch.

We know way too well that ethnic cleansing and land dispossession are key strategies of any settler colonial regime - Israel is no different. As feminists we stand in opposition to oppression and injustice in all its forms.

📍📍 Meeting point: Visitor Sculpture, Cavendish Square Gardens
🗓️ 🗓️ When: 18 May 2024 @ 11.30

📚Join Feminist Fightback for our summer reading

📚Join Feminist Fightback for our summer reading group book: Elsa Dorlin’s Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence, translated from the french by Kieran Aarons.

📖This book is a study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation. In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies “worthy of defending” and those who have been disarmed and rendered defenceless.

📖Elsa Dorlin looks across the global history of the left – from slave revolts to the knitting women of the French Revolution and British suffragists’ training in ju-jitsu, from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to the Black Panther Party, from queer neighborhood patrols to Black Lives Matter – to trace the politics, philosophy, and ethics of self defense.

📖The book is 272 pages long. We will discuss this book in four sessions, two chapters at a time:

🗓Tuesday 28th of May
* Prologue, What a body can do
* The production of disarmed bodies
* Defense of self, defense of the nation
🗓Monday 24th of June
* Testaments of self-defense
* The state, or the non-monopoly on legitimate defense
🗓Monday 29th of July
* White justice
* Self-defense: power to the people
🗓Monday 30th of September
* Self-defense and safety
* Reprisals

👀Please come having read the relevant chapters. Drop us a line if you would like more details at feminist.fightback@gmail.com.

📚We urge people to buy the book or borrow it from a library, if they can find it, to support the author. However if you are not able to do either, we can provide you with a link to read it online.

📍As an exception the May session will take place at Vibast Community Centre, 167 Old St, London EC1V 9NH.
📍The June, July and September sessions will take place at Golden Lane Community Centre, Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y 0SA

The venues are fully accessible. Please arrive at 7.00 for 7.15 start; we will finish at 8.30pm. All genders welcome.

Join Feminist Fightback for our May film showing a

Join Feminist Fightback for our May film showing as we screen Her Job (2018, 89min) by Nikos Labôt.

In this slow-burning film about sexism and female emancipation, Panayiota is an illiterate housewife who gets her first job as a cleaner. Over time, she rises up the ranks and gains her family respect; but danger looms as a series of layoffs start.

Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle very much encouraged. Drinks and snacks will be available.

Drinks and snacks will be available.

Suggested donations on the door £2/5/10 unwaged/waged/solidarity.

All genders welcome.

Doors open at 7pm.

ACCESS:
The film showing will take place on the ground floor of Pelican House, in the room at the back of the courtyard. The toilets are on the same same level. The space and toilets are level access from the road.

Closest stations Bethnal Green tube station and Bethnal Green overground station.

Closest bus stops Cephas Street and Three Colts Lane for the 106 and 254 buses.

Join Feminist Fightback TONIGHT for our third and

Join Feminist Fightback TONIGHT for our third and last in our short look at the Palestinian struggle. We’re now going to read ‘Interviews with radical Palestinian women’, a book edited by the Shoal collective.

This month we are asking people to read a couple of the interviews (a few pages each), ready for a discussion with the group.

The book can be downloaded for free here: https://shoalcollective.org/our-publications/

💚❤️🖤Thanks to everyone who came to this

💚❤️🖤Thanks to everyone who came to this past Sunday’s ‘Why is Palestine a Feminist Issue’ - Feminist Assembly & Political Education Workshop. It was amazing to gather as feminists to learn, strategize, and organise around why Palestine is a feminist issue. Our speakers offered us lots to reflect on and we’re feeling very grateful and committed to take continued action as feminists for Palestine.

👀🍉Stay tuned for information about future events and actions in solidarity with Palestine.

There is just ONE WEEK to go until the ‘Why is P

There is just ONE WEEK to go until the ‘Why is Palestine a Feminist Issue’ – Feminist Assembly & Political Education Workshop

The day will include talks from feminists organising around Palestine, a workshop to develop our collective thinking about why Palestine is a feminist issue and how we can effectively organise, and a communal meal.

Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-is-palestine-a-feminist-issue-tickets-858045566387

💚❤️🖤 Speaker Announcement (more to follow) 💚❤️🖤

Hania Tayara - a Syrian with Palestinian heritage, science communicator and activist will spotlight how Israel’s colonial violence and bordering practices shape reproductive injustices for Palestinian women across historic Palestine.

Lina Ashour - an Egyptian, feminist speaker and community organiser, will review the history of feminist resistance in Palestine and what we can learn to avoid the pitfalls of liberal white feminism; and how various feminist movements from the global south have shown solidarity.

📍Sunday 7 April at 14.00-18.00
📍 Golden Lane Community Centre, Golden Lane Estate, London EC1Y 0SA
📍 Transport: the Barbican tube station is a short walk, as is the bus stop for 4, 56, and 153 buses.
📍The venue is full accessible and there will be a prayer room available.

Please contact us if you require childcare or need assistance covering the cost of travel.

Join the Feminists for Palestine coalition for a F

Join the Feminists for Palestine coalition for a Feminist Assembly & Political Education Workshop

💚❤️🖤 A Free Palestine is a Feminist Issue 💚❤️🖤

The Feminists for Palestine coalition are organising a collective political education workshop to build upon the work and discussions we have had organising a feminist block during the ongoing Palestine demonstrations and this year’s Women’s Strike for Liberation.

Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-is-palestine-a-feminist-issue-tickets-858045566387

The day will include talks from feminists organising around Palestine, a workshop to develop our collective thinking about why Palestine is a feminist issue and how we can effectively organise, and a communal meal.

📍Sunday 7 April at 14.00-18.00
📍 Golden Lane Community Centre, Golden Lane Estate, London EC1Y 0SA
📍 Transport: the Barbican tube station is a short walk, as is the bus stop for 4, 56, and 153 buses.
📍The venue is full accessible and there will be a prayer room available.

Please contact us if you require childcare, or need assistance covering the cost of travel.

🎬🎞Join Feminist Fightback for our Easter fil

🎬🎞Join Feminist Fightback for our Easter film showing as we show All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022, 122min)

🎥 Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.

🍿🥤Drinks and snacks will be available.

🎟Suggested donations on the door £2/5/10 unwaged/waged/solidarity.
All genders welcome.
🕙 Doors open at 7pm.

ACCESS:
♿️The film showing will take place on the ground floor of Pelican House, at the back of the courtyard. The toilets are on the same same level. The space and toilets are level access from the road.

🚇🚋Closest stations Bethnal Green tube station and Bethnal Green overground station.

🚍🚏Closest bus stops Cephas Street and Three Colts Lane for the 106 and 254 buses.

✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼Its been a week since a large

✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼Its been a week since a large number of you joined us in the streets of London for this year’s Womens Strike.

💚❤️🖤We hope you are all still feeling the beautiful energy of the evening and remembering the powerful speeches from our comrades in the forefront of the fight for Palestinian liberation.

👀🍉Watch this space as we are currently organising an exciting follow up event for next month. See you soon!

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