110 years ago, in the blistering heat of August 1911 women working in jam, biscuit and sweet factories went on wildcat strike in protest against poverty wages and appalling conditions. Find out how they used direct action to fight their bosses and win! This radical history walk follows in the footsteps of the Bermondsey Uprising […]
Hackney Patients Not Passports will be running a lively and informative stall as part of the No Borders in The NHS week of action. The stall will be outside the farmers market at St Paul's Church, Hackney. We will have music and poetry and a chance to get involved and have your say. Come and […]
This winter, the Feminist Fightback reading group will read Amia Srinivasan's new collection of essays, The Right to Sex (Bloomsbury, 2021). Interrogating the relationships between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation, Srinivasan's essays explore key political and ethical questions of sex in […]
This winter, the Feminist Fightback reading group will read Amia Srinivasan's new collection of essays, The Right to Sex (Bloomsbury, 2021). Interrogating the relationships between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation, Srinivasan's essays explore key political and ethical questions of sex in […]
Winter Solstice Radical History Walk: The East London Federation of the Suffragettes Back by popular demand – another Feminist Fightback radical history walk. This time we’ll be following in the footsteps of the East London Federation of the Suffragettes to raise money for the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan. Sunday 12 December, meet at […]
This winter, the Feminist Fightback reading group will read Amia Srinivasan's new collection of essays, The Right to Sex (Bloomsbury, 2021). Interrogating the relationships between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation, Srinivasan's essays explore key political and ethical questions of sex in […]
This winter, the Feminist Fightback reading group will read Amia Srinivasan's new collection of essays, The Right to Sex (Bloomsbury, 2021). Interrogating the relationships between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation, Srinivasan's essays explore key political and ethical questions of sex in […]
This winter, the Feminist Fightback reading group will read Amia Srinivasan's new collection of essays, The Right to Sex (Bloomsbury, 2021). Interrogating the relationships between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation, Srinivasan's essays explore key political and ethical questions of sex in […]
This winter, the Feminist Fightback reading group will read Amia Srinivasan's new collection of essays, The Right to Sex (Bloomsbury, 2021). Interrogating the relationships between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation, Srinivasan's essays explore key political and ethical questions of sex in […]
For this months film screening we will be showing SEAHORSE (2019, 89 mins, Jeanie Finlay), a documentary film about a trans man called Freddy who decides to become pregnant and give birth. The film shows Freddy talking about his transition, decision to become pregnant and traces his experience of pregnancy and labour while navigating the […]
In the last year alone, Britain has witnessed renewed attacks on abortion clinics; mobilisations against sex education in schools; Tory leadership contenders competing as to who can appear more transphobic; and demonstrations against Drag Queen Story Hour. Gender is an important front in the war waged by the hard right, from the Conservative Party to fascist […]
After our successful workshop on the 28th of January we are inviting you all to come together again so we can discuss which action we will be taking forward and plan how we will do it. At this meeting we will revisit the two most popular proposals from the final session and collectively plan. Please […]
ENG 💚 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 […]
❌On 2nd September 2023 the anti-abortion organisation ‘March for Life’ will descend on London to demand an end to abortion under any circumstances ❌ 📣JOIN US ON THE STREETS TO OPPOSE THEM with JOY ❤️🔥 Our Bodies - Our lives - Our Right to Decide ❤️🔥 📍2 SEPTEMBER | 12:00 | OUTSIDE THE […]
On the 2nd of September, Feminist Fightback were part of a coalition of feminist, queer and trans, migrant and anti-racist groups who took to the streets to counter the anti-abortion organisation March for Life. We came together because anti-abortion, anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-migrant politics are linked – and our struggle for a liberatory future must […]
Join Feminist Fightback for our Halloween film showing as this year we watch together Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014). Amirpour's black and white debut film has become a cult classic often called the first Iranian vampire western. Set in the fictitious Iranian ghost town of Bad City, the film […]
Join Feminist Fightback for our January film showing as we show In Between (2016, 103min) by Maysaloun Hamoud. In Between follows the lives of three independent Palestinian-Israeli women in Tel Aviv. Away from the constraints of their families and enforced tradition, they find themselves torn between the unfettered lives they aspire to lead and the […]
Join Feminist Fightback and friends for the second book in our short look at the Palestinian struggle. After January's fiction respite we will spend February and March discussing the "Greater than the sum of our parts: feminism, inter/nationalism & Palestine" In this bold book, Palestinian activist Nada Elia unpacks Zionism, from its hypermilitarism to incarceration, […]
📣 We take the streets again this year in a feminist strike for liberation. 📍Friday 8th of March 2024 6.30pm 📍Location Soho Square, London From London to Palestine, Abya Yala to Kurdistan, our fight for liberation and solidarity must cross borders. None of us are free until all of us are free. The freedom of […]
From London to Palestine, Abya Yala to Kurdistan, our fight for liberation and solidarity must cross borders. None of us are free until all of us are free. The freedom of Palestinians is intrinsic to our collective freedom against all forms of oppression. As feminists we support all liberation movements to combat injustice: we are […]
Join Feminist Fightback and friends for the third and last book in our short look at the Palestinian struggle. Having read a fiction book (Minor Detail) and a non-fiction book (Greater than the sum of our parts), we're now going to read 'Interviews with radical Palestinian women', a book edited by the Shoal collective. This […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join Feminist Fightback for a lighthearted, festive film screening this 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join Feminist Fightback together with London Trans Pride for a film showing. This month we are showing Kokomo City(73min), a 2023 documentary film directed by D.Smith. This award winning documentary follows four Black transgender sex workers, who break down the walls of their profession. Holding nothing back, the film vibrates with energy, sex, challenge and […]
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 […]
On Saturday the 8th of March we will be taking to the streets again in London for the international feminist strike! More details will come shortly. Before the 8th of March we invite everyone to learn their rights. The more we know the more powerful we are! Green and Black Cross are offering FREE […]
TAKE THE STREETS WITH US THIS 8TH OF MARCH! Regent's Park - Gandalf's Corner, NW1 4LB. (corner of Outer Circ and Park Square) 3 PM On the 8th of March, we take the streets of London to mark the International Feminist Strike 2025, joined by our shared fight against the patriarchal war machine, and as part […]
Join Feminist Fightback this March for a screening of I am not a witch (2017, 93min) by Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni. Exploring Zambia’s little-known culture of “witch camps,” the film masterfully combines comedy, tragedy, and mesmerizing visuals. A portrait of a defiant young girl, I Am Not a Witch mounts an acerbic critique of women’s oppression […]
Hard-right populism, here and abroad, is on the rise - alongside attacks against migrants, the LGBTQ+ community (especially our trans siblings), the disabled and vulnerable, and the working class. In this climate, it is increasingy important that we build networks of mutual support and practical strategies for change. On 27 April, we will be coming […]
Join Feminist Fightback for our summer reading group book: Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak. In many places around the world, the freedom to simply care for one another is being attacked by the powerful, and acts of solidarity are being made illegal. In a […]
Join Feminist Fightback for our May film screening. We will be showing Shoplifters, a 2018 Japanese award winning film written and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Shoplifters is a study of family trauma and the fear of poverty. On the margins of Tokyo, a family is united by fierce loyalty and a penchant for petty theft. […]
Join Feminist Fightback for our summer reading group book: Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak. In many places around the world, the freedom to simply care for one another is being attacked by the powerful, and acts of solidarity are being made illegal. In a […]
Join Feminist Fightback for our summer reading group book: Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak. In many places around the world, the freedom to simply care for one another is being attacked by the powerful, and acts of solidarity are being made illegal. In a […]
This July in collaboration with Brazil Matters and the Feminist Assembly of Latin Americans, Feminist Fightback will be screening the Brazilian documentary Incompatible with Life. The 2023 documentary directed by Eliza Capai explores the deeply personal and universal themes of motherhood, prenatal grief, and abortion. The film begins with Capai's own experience of terminating a […]
Lets learn together about fighting for reproductive justice and bodily autonomy against rising fascism and the far right. At this panel event our speakers and discussion will be on bodily autonomy and reproductive justice in a time of rising fascism and far right ideology and activity. Trans Kids Deserve Better, Feminist Fightback, SKB Socialist Women’s […]
This August in Brazil Matters, the Feminist Assembly of Latin Americans, Feminist Fightback and Cine Brazil will be continuing our collaboration to screen two more documentaries centering abortion and people's experiences of them. We will be showing two films: Verde-Esperanza and Ours to Tell. Verde-Esperanza: legal abortion in Latin America (2023, 43min) directed by Maria […]
Reproductive rights are under renewed attack from far-right anti-abortion groups in both the UK & the US. Join us on 6th September to counter the UK’s largest anti-abortion demonstration. But before then join us for collective banner and placard making. Lets get creative together and give ourselves the opportunity to have some informal conversations on […]
Reproductive rights are under renewed attack from far-right anti-abortion groups in both the UK & the US. They are not isolated—they are part of a wider international reactionary movement advancing a xenophobic, racist, homophobic and ableist agenda. The same forces mobilising against abortion are also targeting trans people, queer communities, disabled people and racialised groups. Well funded organisations like […]
We are sorry to have to cancel this reading group event. The publication of the paperback version of the book we had scheduled to read was delayed and we were not able to find an alternative at such short notice. Please join us for the book we will start reading in October, as that event […]
Join Feminist Fightback Filmclub this September as in collaboration with Nanny Solidarity Network we screen Roma (2018, 135mins) by Alfonso Cuarón Roma is an epic film that delivers a vivid, emotional portrait of a domestic worker's journey set against domestic and political turmoil in 1970s Mexico. Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón recreates the early-1970s Mexico City […]
Join Feminist Fightback for our autumn reading group book: Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?: A tangled history of resistance and complicity by Leah Cowan Leah Cowan's book deals with the tangled history of feminism’s complicity and resistance as it traces the history of British feminism’s alliances and struggles with the law and its enforcers. Drawing […]
After comming together in the streets for another year in September to oppose the christian fundamentalist and hard right anti-abortion movement, our coalition wants to broader the discussion. Join us for an afternoon of collective reflection, discussion and action as we explore together what the reproductive justice means for each of us. Its not just […]
Join Feminist Fightback for our autumn reading group book: Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?: A tangled history of resistance and complicity by Leah Cowan Leah Cowan's book deals with the tangled history of feminism’s complicity and resistance as it traces the history of British feminism’s alliances and struggles with the law and its enforcers. Drawing […]
Join Feminist Fightback for our autumn reading group book: Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?: A tangled history of resistance and complicity by Leah Cowan Leah Cowan's book deals with the tangled history of feminism’s complicity and resistance as it traces the history of British feminism’s alliances and struggles with the law and its enforcers. Drawing […]
Join us this January as we start the year with a genre-bending comedy to beat the winter blues. Sister Midnight (2024, 110mins) by Karan Kandhari is a film about a misanthropic newlywed giving into her feral impulses which lead her to unlikely situations. Uma travels to Mumbai for a newly arranged marriage. The oddball couple […]
Join Feminist Fightback for our next reading group book: Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights Sex Workers by Juno Mac and Molly Smith Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly […]
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