• Feminist Fightback Film Club: Born In Flames

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    Made in 1983, ‘Born in Flames’ (dir. Lizzie Borden) is an incredible docu-drama/ sci fi film set in the future, ten years after a social democratic revolution which has established American Socialism. However, Black and working-class women are not happy with this form of reformism and start arming themselves and forming the women’s army to bring about […]

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club: Valentines Day Edition

    Its Valentines Day! Come to Feminist Fightback's film screening of She's a Punk Rocker UK by Zillah Minx and celebrate your love of mohawks, badass women, the 80's, swearing, neon, drums and so forth. Music, dancing and chat to follow. Zillah Minx ( from the band Rubella Ballet) tells the story with the women of […]

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    At the next installment of Feminist Fightback Film Club, we will be presenting: "Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger" For decades, performance artist and writer, Kate Bornstein, has been exploding binaries and deconstructing gender—and her own identity. Trans-dyke. Reluctant polyamorist. Sadomasochist. Recovering Scientologist. Pioneering gender outlaw. Kate Bornstein Is a Queer & Pleasant […]

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club: Mothers’ Strike

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    Inspired by the current Focus E15 Mothers struggle for social housing in Newham, London, and past and present housing struggles in the UK and abroad, this month's Feminist Fightback Film Club takes housing as its theme. Mothers' Strike (22', Szum TV/ Feminist Think Tank Poland, 2010) - introduced by Magda who made the film Behind the Rent Strike […]

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club presents: 12th & Delaware

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    For November's Feminist Fightback Film Club, we'll be screening 12th and Delaware: a documentary revolving around a 'pregnancy care centre' set up across the road from an abortion clinic in suburban Florida. Pregnancy care centres/crisis centres are unregulated clinics set up to look like providers of medical advice for pregnant women, with the aim of […]

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club: Paris is Burning

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    A Christmas/Hanukkah/solstice/communist social Including film showing of Paris is Burning, followed by a 1980s themed queer dance disco. Come and join us. All welcome. Suggested donations £3 low/unwaged; £5 waged. Join the Facebook event here.  www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight www.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback  

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: United In Anger

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    For January's Film Club we will be screening United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, jointly and in solidarity with the group, who will be leading a discussion afterwards. United In Anger is a unique feature-length documentary that combines startling archival footage which puts the audience on the ground with the activists, and remarkably […]

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Eyes of the Rainbow

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    This month, Feminist Fightback Film Club will be screening Eyes of the Rainbow, Gloria Rolanda's 1997 documentary about the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army activist Assata Shakur. There will be a post-screening discussion. Drinks and dancing to follow. Come and join us for this anti-Valentine's day special. All welcome. Suggested donations £3 low/unwaged; £5 […]

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club: Made in India

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    Come and join us. All welcome. Suggested donations £3 low/unwaged; £5 waged. Join the Facebook event here.  www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight www.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback  

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club: Mutantes

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    Virginie Despentes' 2009 documentary, Mutantes (Punk Porn Feminism), provides a context for the Post Porn movement (Punk Porn Feminism) which seeks to re-frame pornography as a creative activity that constructs and deconstructs ideas of gender, power, politics and equality. The documentary aims to provide answers to the understanding of porn from the perspective of pro-sex […]

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club: Les Stances à Sophie

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our screening of the playful French new wave film Les Stances à Sophie (1971, 97 minutes). Based on the feminist novel by Christiane Rochefort, the film explores themes of sexual liberation, the bourgeois family and its claustrophobic stranglehold, capitalist greed and its environmental catastrophe, set amongst a backdrop of music, poetry […]

  • Feminist Fightback North Film Club: Migration (Short Films)

    The Red Deer 8 Pitt Street, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Come and join us. All welcome. Suggested donations £3 low/unwaged; £5 waged. Join the Facebook event here.  www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight www.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback

  • FILM SCREENING Tactics to Counteract the Anti-Choice

    The May Day Rooms 88 Fleet Street, London, United Kingdom

    Feminist Fightback are delighted to be hosting pro choice screening + discussion at the Festival of Choice, Wednesday 23rd September, 7pm (The May Day Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH). For more information Join the Facebook event

  • Festival of Choice: Tactics to counteract anti-choice

    Feminist Fightback are delighted to be hosting pro choice screening + discussion at the Festival of Choice, Wednesday 23rd September, 7pm (The May Day Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH). We’ll be screening Twelfth and Delaware, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing’s 2010 documentary, following a group of anti-abortion protestors in Florida as they set up […]