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January 2023 workshop on the Gender Politics of the Hard Right
Sexual harassment at the TSSA Union: The Kennedy report
Why Feminists Must Support Free Movement
Why Trans Liberation Must be Part of the Feminist Fightback
In support of decriminalising abortion in the UK

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January 2023 workshop on the Gender Politics of the Hard Right

The Gender Politics of the Hard Right – a workshop to educate and build resistance 28 January 2023 Part I [...]

March 9, 2023

Sexual harassment at the TSSA Union: The Kennedy report
October 28, 2022

Why Feminists Must Support Free Movement
October 28, 2022

Why Trans Liberation Must be Part of the Feminist Fightback
September 30, 2022

In support of decriminalising abortion in the UK

Upcoming Events

Aug 20

3:30 pm - 6:00 pm

August organising meeting

Aug 26

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Rehearsal for Un Violador en tu Camino / A Rapist in your Path + Pañuelo Making + Assembly on Reproductive Rights for all!

Aug 29

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Feminist Fightback Reading Group: Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment – Part 2

Sep 2

Featured 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Our Bodies Our Lives Our Right to Decide

Sep 17

3:30 pm - 6:00 pm

September organising meeting

Sep 26

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Feminist Fightback Reading Group: Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment – Part 3

Oct 15

3:30 pm - 6:00 pm

October organising meeting

Oct 24

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Feminist Fightback Reading Group: Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment – Part 4

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⚡️One month to go til 2nd September! 💥Join

⚡️One month to go til 2nd September!
💥Join us on the streets for joyful dancing and activities and bring your friends.
🌈⭐️Freedom to live is freedom to choose.
📆2nd of September ⏱12noon 🏢2 Marsham Street, London
#FreedomToLive

Please share your reflections and experiences of a

Please share your reflections and experiences of abortion in the UK to be read out anonymously as part of the FreedomToLive demonstration on September 2nd.

If you are someone who has needed or could need an abortion, whether or not you can attend on September 2nd, please help by submitting a few lines on your feelings and experiences as a message here or by email to feminist.fightback@gmail.com

Testimonies we have read out at a previous demonstration against March for LIfe included the fear of what it could mean to not be able to access abortion & experiences of accessing abortion.

ENG 💚 Rehearsal for Un Violador en tu Camino /

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💚 Rehearsal for Un Violador en tu Camino / A Rapist in your Path + Pañuelo Making + Assembly on Reproductive Rights for all!
📌 26 of August, Golden Lane Community Center
🪧 Join us to prepare for the demonstration on the 2nd of September 💥Our Bodies Our Lives Our Right to Decide 💥where we will be opposing March for Life, a pro-life group that is campaigning to ban abortion.
👐 We will rehearse the dance together (in English + Spanish) and host an assembly on the topic of reproductive rights, whilst we make pañuelos ahead of the demonstration. We will provide food.
💜 All feminists are welcome! This is a trans-inclusive feminist space - we want to actively discuss reproductive rights and life-affirming health care for ALL.

ACT UP
BRAZIL MATTERS
FEMINIST FIGHTBACK
WOMEN’S STRIKE ASSEMBLY
LONDON ANTI-FASCIST ASSEMBLY
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD
FEMINIST ASSEMBLY OF LATIN AMERICANS
SEX WORKER ADVOCACY AND RESISTANCE MOVEMENT
#freedomtolive #ourbodiesourlivesourrighttodecide #abortionrights #reproductivejusticeforall

Join Feminist Fightback and friends for our summer

Join Feminist Fightback and friends for our summer reading group. We’ve taken the decision to replace the book we’d planned for our next reading group with ‘Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment’(2023) by Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk. This book is much more aligned with our politics, particularly around trans liberation and sex work decriminalisation.

‘Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment’ charts the new phase of global struggles around gender equality and sexual democracy: the ultraconservative mobilization against "gender ideology" and feminist efforts to counteract it, as well as how opposition to "gender" has become a key element of the rise of right-wing populism. The authors map the anti-gender campaigns as a global movement and argue that the anti-gender rhetoric is best understood as a reactionary critique of neoliberalism as a socio-cultural formation.

We’re reading ‘Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment’ to build our collective understanding of attacks on gender and reproductive rights from the hard right, which is the current focus of Feminist Fightback’s activism.

Find the link to the Open Access version of this book on the event page on our website. Link in our bio.

Please come having read the text. Drop us a line if you would like more details and to let us know if you will be joining, so we have an idea of numbers at feminist.fightback@gmail.com.

These will take place in person at Golden Lane Community Centre, Golden Lane Estate, London EC1Y 0SA. The venue is fully accessible. Please arrive at 7.30 for 7.45 start; we will finish at 9.00pm. All genders welcome.

Its the time of the month again! This Saturday mor

Its the time of the month again! This Saturday morning Honor Oak community support and counter protest. 🔥 We will not let the far right dictate the rules of what or who is acceptable! 🏳️‍⚧️⚧✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻

On 2 September 2023 the anti-abortion organisation

On 2 September 2023 the anti-abortion organisation March for Life will descend on London to demand an end to abortion under any circumstances.

As a coalition of feminists, queer, trans, migrant and anti-racist activists, we refuse to allow the politics of bigotry to take over our streets.

💖💙💜🏳️‍🌈👩🏾‍❤️‍👨🏿👩🏻‍❤️‍👩🏼👨🏻‍❤️‍👨🏾🏳️‍⚧️⚧

Meet at 12noon on Saturday 2nd September outside the Home Office, 2 Marsham Street, London to make sure it’s our vision of freedom that holds the day.

This action is supported by:
Act Up @actup_london
Brazil Matters @brazilmatters
Women's Strike Assembly @womenstrike.britain
Feminist Fightback
London Anti-Fascist Assembly @london_antifascist_assembly
Feminist Assembly of Latin America @falatinamericans
Industrial Workers of the World @industrialworkersoftheworld
Sex Workers Advocacy and Resistance Movement

🔥✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🔥

#freedomtolive #freedomtochoose #freedomtolove #abortionishealthcare #reproductivejustice #reproductivefreedom #reproductiverights

Join Feminist Fightback for a screening of Palme d

Join Feminist Fightback for a screening of Palme d'Or winner ‘4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days’ (1h 53m), a Romanian film by Cristian Mungiu, set during the final years of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s rule. Abortion was illegal in Romania at that time, and the film follows friends Otilia and Găbița as they attempt to obtain an illegal abortion on the black market when Găbița becomes pregnant. ‘4 Months…’ is a minimalist, realist portrayal of the danger pregnant people face in states which deny access to abortion.

When the film was released in 2007, abortion was still illegal in Ireland. In 2023, we’re in a world where Roe V Wade has been overturned, making abortion illegal in many states. The hard right around the world have put gender and reproductive justice at the centre of their discursive and policy agendas, attacking trans healthcare, information for young people about sexuality and ‘non-traditional’ families, alongside abortion rights. The US Supreme Court decision was a powerful and painful reminder that our rights are not settled, that we have to fight to keep what we have and to push for more. We have to fight if we don’t want abortion to look like scared, vulnerable, exploited people waiting in hotel rooms for procedures or drugs that they’re not sure are safe, risking criminalisation in the process.

Please note, the film contains scenes of medical procedures and sexual exploitation.

We’ll be hosting a discussion after the film, which will be a great chance to find out more about the organising Feminist Fightback are doing around threats to reproductive justice in the UK. We’d love to you to join us.

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.

Another great evening discussing our current book

Another great evening discussing our current book and sharing experiences and opinions. See you next month as we discuss the last two chapter’s Leslie Kern’s Feminist City. #reading #readinggroup #feminist #bookclub #feministcity

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From the picketline at Great Ormond Street Hospita

From the picketline at Great Ormond Street Hospital, today, the 1st of May #strike #nursesstrike #supportnurses #picket

Despite being taken to court by the government, nu

Despite being taken to court by the government, nurses and HCAs are striking again from the 30th of April to the 1st of May. Feminist Fightback will be supporting the picket line at the Great Ormond Street Hospital on the 1st of May from 10.30am. Join us! Main entrance, Great Ormond Street WC1N 3JH #nursesstrike #picketline #mayday #rcn

A reminder that this Friday we are showing The Jan

A reminder that this Friday we are showing The Janes. After the film showing we will also have two guest speakers: Jane Grant and Sue O’Sullivan, both american feminist activists from the 60s and 70s who will share their experiences of living through that time.

The film showing will take place at Vibast Community Centre, 167 Old Street, London EC1V 9NH. The centre is in St Luke’s, a three-minute walk from Old Street station. It is also served by a large number of buses, the 55 and 243 having stops almost in front of the venue . The venue is accessible and has accessible toilets. We will screen the film with subtitles.

Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30 start. All genders welcome.

It was lovely to see so many new faces today and t

It was lovely to see so many new faces today and to have such an interesting engaging conversation with you all. Who is excited for next month’s reading group session? #readinggroup #feministcity

Join Feminist Fightback and friends for our spring

Join Feminist Fightback and friends for our spring reading group, where we will discuss Leslie Kern's book Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World. This book is smaller than our last books at 224 pages so should be an easy read.

Please come having read the text. Drop us a line if you would like more details and to let us know if you will be joining, so we have an idea of numbers at feminist.fightback@gmail.com

The discussions will take place in person at Golden Lane Community Centre, Golden Lane Estate, London EC1Y 0SA. The Barbican tube station is a two minute walk away. The venue is fully accessible. Please arrive at 7.30 for 7.45 start; we will finish at 9.00pm. All genders welcome.

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This month we will be showing a documentary about

This month we will be showing a documentary about events in 1970s that are once again topical.

The Janes is a documentary from directors Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes that tells the story of The Jane Collective, which helped thousands of women obtain abortions in the US when they were still illegal in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. The Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision of January 1973 legalized abortion in the US and brought some relief. With its overturning a short while ago the story of their daring remains frighteningly relevant nearly 50 years later.

The film showing will be followed by a discussion featuring two guest speakers.

Jane Grant is a feminist activist who moved to London from the US. Attending the first Women’s Liberation Conference in Oxford in 1970 transformed her politics and reading Our Bodies Ourselves influenced her decision to become a midwife.

Sue O’Sullivan has been a women’s liberationist in London since the late 1960s after growing up in the USA. She had an illegal abortion when she was 21 while living in New York State before any abortions were legal. This was a horrifying experience and led Sue to feel passionately about women’s right to accessible, freely available abortion - now more than ever.

Feminist Fightback Film Club will be at a new venue for this screening – Vibast Community Centre, 167 Old Street, London EC1V 9NH. The centre is in St Luke’s, a three-minute walk from Old Street station. It is also served by a large number of buses, the 55 and 243 having stops almost in front of the venue . The venue is accessible and has accessible toilets. We will screen the film with subtitles.

Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30 start. All genders welcome.

This is a free screening, with donations collected on the night. Drinks and snacks will be available. #filmshowing #filmclub #abortionrights #righttochoose #feministfilm

Join Feminist Fightback and friends for our spring

Join Feminist Fightback and friends for our spring reading group, where we will discuss Leslie Kern's book Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World. This book is smaller than our last books at 224 pages so should be an easy read.

The series will take place over three sessions:
- Tuesday 25th April - Introduction: City of Men & Chapter 1: City of Moms
- Tuesday 30th May - Chapter 2: City of Friends & Chapter 3: City of One
- Tuesday 27th June - Chapter 4: City of Protest & Chapter 5: City of Fear & City of Possibility

In Feminist City, through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. Kern offers an alternative vision of the feminist city. Taking on fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and perils of being alone, Kern maps the city from new vantage points, laying out an intersectional feminist approach to urban histories and proposes that the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and women-friendly cities together.

Please come having read the text. Drop us a line if you would like more details and to let us know if you will be joining, so we have an idea of numbers. feminist.fightback@gmail.com
These will take place in person at Golden Lane Community Centre, Golden Lane Estate, London EC1Y 0SA. The venue is fully accessible. Please arrive at 7.30 for 7.45 start; we will finish at 9.00pm. All genders welcome. #readinggroup #feministcity #lesliekern

Feminist Fightback held an open workshop this Janu

Feminist Fightback held an open workshop this January to explore the ways in which the hard right is using gender as a political weapon. Our aim was to inform ourselves of the connections between attacks on trans rights, homophobia and reproductive rights and the nationalism, racism and xenophobia of the hard right. It was also to begin to build a coalition of feminist, queer, trans and other organisations to resist the rise of right-wing populism in our government, in our schools and on our streets. Read the summary of the event on our website. Link in our bio.

Join Feminist Filmclub this Saturday

Join Feminist Filmclub this Saturday

In February the Kennedy report into sexual harassm

In February the Kennedy report into sexual harassment at the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) Union was published. Find the link in our bio to our article about it. #sexualharassment #workplaceorganizing #metu

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