• Feminist Fightback reading group: Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence – Part 1

    Vibast Community Centre 167 Old Street, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • Feminist Fightback Filmclub presents: Her Job

    Pelican House 138-148 Cambridge Heath Road, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our May film showing as we show Her Job (2018, 90mins) 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 […]

  • June Organising Meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • Feminist Fightback reading group: Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence – part 2

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • July Organising Meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • Feminist Fightback reading group: Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence – part 3

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • September Organising Meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • Feminist Fightback Filmclub presents: Concerning Violence

    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 […]

  • Feminist Fightback reading group: Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence – part 4

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • October Organising Meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • November Organising Meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • Feminist Fightback Filmclub: Polite Society

    Vibast Community Centre 167 Old Street, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • Feminist Fightback reading group: A Short History of Trans Misogyny By Jules Gill-Peterson

    Sir Ralph Perring Centre Golden Lanes estate, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • December Organising Meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • Feminist Fightback reading group: A Short History of Trans Misogyny By Jules Gill-Peterson

    Sir Ralph Perring Centre Golden Lanes estate, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • January organising meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • Feminist Fightback Filmclub & London Trans Pride: Kokomo City

    Pelican House 138-148 Cambridge Heath Road, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • Feminist Fightback reading group: A Short History of Trans Misogyny By Jules Gill-Peterson

    Sir Ralph Perring Centre Golden Lanes estate, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • February organising meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • March organising meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • Feminist Fightback Filmclub: I am not a witch

    Pelican House 138-148 Cambridge Heath Road, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • April Organising Meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we usually meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For April, however, to work around the Easter holiday, we are meeting the second Sunday of the month. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part […]

  • Feminist Fightback reading group: Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity Part 1

    Sir Ralph Perring Centre Golden Lanes estate, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • May Organising Meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • Feminist Fightback Filmclub: Shoplifters

    Pelican House 138-148 Cambridge Heath Road, London, United Kingdom

    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. […]

  • Feminist Fightback reading group: Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity Part 2

    Sir Ralph Perring Centre Golden Lanes estate, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • June Organising meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

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

    Sir Ralph Perring Centre Golden Lanes estate, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • Feminist Fightback Filmclub: Incompatible with Life

    Pelican House 138-148 Cambridge Heath Road, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • Keep your laws off our bodies: Global Struggles for Bodily Autonomy

    GIK-DER Refugee Workers Cultural Association Wedge House, White Hart Lane, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • Feminist Fightback Filmclub & Cine Brazil: Verde-Esperanza

    Farr's Pub 17-19 Dalston Lane, Hackney, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • Keep your laws off our bodies: Banner and placard making

    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 […]

  • Feminist Fightback reading group: CANCELLED

    Vibast Community Centre 167 Old Street, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • September Organising meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • Feminist Fightback filmclub: Roma (2018)

    Pelican House 138-148 Cambridge Heath Road, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

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

    Vibast Community Centre 167 Old Street, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • October Organising Meeting

    Sir Ralph Perring Centre Golden Lanes estate, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • Feminist Assembly: Lets talk about what reproductive justice means for us

    Feminist Library Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Rd, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

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

    Vibast Community Centre 167 Old Street, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • November Organising Meeting

    Sir Ralph Perring Centre Golden Lanes estate, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • Feminist Fightback Filmclub presents: The Spies Who Ruined Our Lives

    Pelican House 138-148 Cambridge Heath Road, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback Filmclub this November to watch The Spies Who Ruined Our Lives (2024, 88min) a gripping documentary that exposes police surveillance of activists, revealing the devastating impact of undercover officers who infiltrated groups, formed intimate relationships, and betrayed trust. ​For over 40 years, a secret organization spied on British citizens. This secret organization […]

  • Feminist Fightback reading group: Why would feminists trust the police? – Part 3

    Vibast Community Centre 167 Old Street, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • December Organising Meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • January Organising Meeting

    Golden Lane community centre Fann Street, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month, 3.30pm-6.00pm. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second part of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people […]

  • Feminist Fightback Filmclub presents: Sister Midnight

    Pelican House 138-148 Cambridge Heath Road, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • Feminist Fightback reading group: Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights Sex Workers – Part 1

    Vibast Community Centre 167 Old Street, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]