BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Feminist Fightback - ECPv6.17.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Feminist Fightback X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Feminist Fightback REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240308T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240308T210000 DTSTAMP:20240304T163515Z CREATED:20240213T151402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240304T163515Z UID:4204-1709922600-1709931600@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Women's Strike 2024 - Feminist Strike for Liberation DESCRIPTION:📣 We take the streets again this year in a feminist strike for liberation. \n📍Friday 8th of March 2024 6.30pm \n📍Location Soho Square\, London \n  \nFrom 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. \nThe 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 building a movement to overcome colonial\, imperialist and patriarchal systems\, to build new more just worlds together. \nWe strike because around the world our siblings are losing their lives to patriarchal\, imperialist and colonial powers. \nWe strike to grieve our siblings. \nWe strike because we believe another world is possible. \nWe strike for collective liberation. \n  \nJoin us! Share this with all your friends! See you on the streets! \nIf your collective/organising group wants to join the call for the 8th of March\, get in touch! \n📣 We take the streets again this year in a feminist strike for liberation. \n  \nThis event is being organised and supported by a growing coalition of feminist collectives. This is not a final definitive list: \n\nWomen’s Strike\nFALA\nFeminist Fightback\nPride of Arabia\nTransnational Social Strike\nRight to Roam London\nNarrow Margins\nBrazil Matters\nKurdish Women’s Assembly\nDecrim Now\nLAFA\nCAFI\nReproductive Justice Initiative\nTAB\nLondon Student Action for Palestine URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/womens-strike-2024-feminist-strike-for-liberation/ LOCATION:soho square\, Soho Square\, London\, W1D 3QN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Direct Action,Public Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/8M-location-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240226T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240226T210000 DTSTAMP:20240122T201852Z CREATED:20231217T170733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T201852Z UID:4172-1708975800-1708981200@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Reading Group: Greater than the sum of our parts: feminism\, inter/nationalism & Palestine - Part 1 DESCRIPTION: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” \nIn this bold book\, Palestinian activist Nada Elia unpacks Zionism\, from its hypermilitarism to incarceration\, its environmental devastation and gendered violence. She insists that Palestine’s fate is linked through bonds of solidarity to other communities crossing racial and gender lines\, weaving an intersectional feminist understanding of Israeli apartheid throughout her analysis. \nWe will discuss this book in two sessions: \n\nMonday 26th of February:\n\nIntroduction- Feminist\, Abolitionist\, and Indigenous Horizons\nin the Struggle Against Settler Colonialism and Apartheid (15p)\nChapter 1 – Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance from\nPalestine to Turtle Island (26p) and\nChapter 2 – DĂ©jĂ  Vu: Beyond Apartheid (28p)\nChapter 3 – Social and Political Liberation: No Free Homeland Without\nFree Women and Queers (27p)\,\n\n\nMonday 25th of March:\n\nChapter 4 – On This Land: Land and Cultural Reclamation from Turtle\nIsland to Palestine (25p) and\nChapter 5 – A Global Intifada (23p)\nEpilogue: Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts (4p)\nAppendix: Pledge—Palestine is a Feminist Issue (2p)\n\n\n\nPlease 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. \nThese 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. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-reading-group-greater-than-the-sum-of-our-parts-feminism-inter-nationalism-palestine/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Public Events,Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Greater-than-the-sum.png ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240218T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240218T180000 DTSTAMP:20240122T200604Z CREATED:20240122T200604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T200604Z UID:4197-1708270200-1708279200@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:February Organising Meeting DESCRIPTION: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 of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). \nThis month’s political discussion is: tbc \nLocation: Golden Lane Community Centre\, Fann Street\, London EC1Y 0SA \nNote: If you haven’t been to one of our organising meeting before and want to attend please email us so we can expect you. If you would like to speak to someone before the meeting\, need help with childcare or there is anything else we can do to make it easier for you to attend\, please get in touch. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/february-organising-meeting-6/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/monthly_organising.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240129T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240129T210000 DTSTAMP:20231206T185612Z CREATED:20231206T162214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231206T185612Z UID:4162-1706556600-1706562000@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Reading Group: Minor Detail by Adania Shibli DESCRIPTION:Join Feminist Fightback and friends for a one off mid-winter fiction session. Taking our cue from current events in Gaza and the return of the occupation of Palestine to the forefront\, we have decided to read a book relevant to the Palestinian struggle. \nWe will be reading Adania Shibli’s 2020 book Minor Detail. A haunting meditation on war\, violence and memory\, Minor Detail cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession\, life under occupation\, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment. \nMinor Detail was awarded Times Books of the Year 2020 and was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. \nPlease 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. \nThese 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. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-reading-group-minor-detail-by-adania-shibli/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Minor-Detail-fb.png ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240126T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240126T220000 DTSTAMP:20231218T151424Z CREATED:20231001T104855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T151424Z UID:4107-1706295600-1706306400@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Filmclub presents: In Between DESCRIPTION:Join Feminist Fightback for our January film showing as we show In Between (2016\, 103min) by Maysaloun Hamoud. \nIn 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 restrictions imposed on them by a blinkered society. \n \nExhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle is very much encouraged. Drinks and snacks will be available. \nSuggested donations on the door ÂŁ2/5/10 unwaged/waged/solidarity. \nAll genders welcome. \nDoors open at 7pm. \nACCESS: \nThe 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. \nClosest stations Bethnal Green tube station and Bethnal Green overground station. \nClosest bus stops Cephas Street and Three Colts Lane for the 106 and 254 buses. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-filmclub-presents-in-between/ LOCATION:Pelican House\, 138-148 Cambridge Heath Road\, London\, E1 5QJ\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Feminist Fightback Film Club,Public Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/in-between-cropped.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240121T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240121T180000 DTSTAMP:20231206T165627Z CREATED:20230626T113746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231206T165627Z UID:4081-1705851000-1705860000@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:January organising meeting DESCRIPTION: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 of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). \nThis month’s political discussion is: tbc \nLocation: Golden Lane Community Centre\, Fann Street\, London EC1Y 0SA \nNote: If you haven’t been to one of our organising meeting before and want to attend please email us so we can expect you. If you would like to speak to someone before the meeting\, need help with childcare or there is anything else we can do to make it easier for you to attend\, please get in touch. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/december-organising-meeting-5/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/monthly_organising.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231119T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231119T180000 DTSTAMP:20230626T113535Z CREATED:20230626T113405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T113535Z UID:4079-1700407800-1700416800@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:November organising meeting DESCRIPTION: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 of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). \nThis month’s political discussion is: tbc \nLocation: Golden Lane Community Centre\, Fann Street\, London EC1Y 0SA \nNote: If you haven’t been to one of our organising meeting before and want to attend please email us so we can expect you. If you would like to speak to someone before the meeting\, need help with childcare or there is anything else we can do to make it easier for you to attend\, please get in touch. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/november-organising-meeting-6/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/monthly_organising.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231027T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231027T220000 DTSTAMP:20231003T095321Z CREATED:20231001T104512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T095321Z UID:4103-1698435000-1698444000@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Filmclub presents: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night DESCRIPTION: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. \nSet in the fictitious Iranian ghost town of Bad City\, the film features a chador-wearing\, skateboarding young female vampire known only as The Girl\, who stalks the streets of the city at night preying on unsavory men. \nThe Girl\, with her vampiric teeth and supernatural powers\, subverts the image of the veiled woman as submissive\, turning the victimhood suggested by the film’s title on its head. This girl walks alone at night with no fear; she is the one to be feared. \nExhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle very much encouraged. Drinks and snacks will be available. \nSuggested donations on the door ÂŁ2/5/10 unwaged/waged/solidarity. \nAll genders welcome. \nDoors open at 7pm. \nACCESS: \nThe 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. \nClosest stations Bethnal Green tube station and Bethnal Green overground station. \nClosest bus stops Cephas Street and Three Colts Lane for the 106 and 254 buses. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-filmclub-presents-a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night/ LOCATION:Pelican House\, 138-148 Cambridge Heath Road\, London\, E1 5QJ\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Feminist Fightback Film Club,Public Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/a-girl-walks-home-alone-cover-poster-672x3721-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231024T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231024T210000 DTSTAMP:20230712T225326Z CREATED:20230607T201908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230712T225326Z UID:4047-1698175800-1698181200@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Reading Group: Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment - Part 4 DESCRIPTION: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 ElĆŒbieta Korolczuk. This book is much more aligned with our politics\, particularly around trans liberation and sex work decriminalisation. \n‘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. \nWe’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. \nThe Open Access version of this book\, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. \nThe series will take place over four sessions: \nTuesday 25th July \n\nIntroduction: The demonisation of “gender” and the crisis of democracy.\nChapter 1: Gender\, anti-gender and right-wing populism: Recasting the debate.\n\nTuesday 29th August \n\nChapter 2: Mapping the anti-gender campaigns as a global movement: From religious trend to political struggle.\nChapter 3: “Worse than communism and nazism put together”: Poland’s anti-gender campaigns in a comparative perspective.\n\nTuesday 26th September \n\nChapter 4: Gender as “Ebola from Brussels”: The uses and abuses of the anti-colonial frame.\nChapter 5: Anxious parents and children in danger: The family as a refuge from Neoliberalism.\n\nTuesday 24th October \n\nChapter 6: Counteracting anti-gender movements: Towards a populist feminism?\nConclusions: Gender in the populist moment.\n\nPlease 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. \nThese 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. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-reading-group-anti-gender-politics-in-the-populist-moment-part-4/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/anti-gender-politics.png ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231015T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231015T180000 DTSTAMP:20230626T113200Z CREATED:20230626T113200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T113200Z UID:4077-1697383800-1697392800@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:October organising meeting DESCRIPTION: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 of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). \nThis month’s political discussion is: tbc \nLocation: Golden Lane Community Centre\, Fann Street\, London EC1Y 0SA \nNote: If you haven’t been to one of our organising meeting before and want to attend please email us so we can expect you. If you would like to speak to someone before the meeting\, need help with childcare or there is anything else we can do to make it easier for you to attend\, please get in touch. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/october-organising-meeting-8/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/monthly_organising.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230926T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230926T210000 DTSTAMP:20230712T225158Z CREATED:20230607T201545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230712T225158Z UID:4045-1695756600-1695762000@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Reading Group: Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment - Part 3 DESCRIPTION: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 ElĆŒbieta Korolczuk. This book is much more aligned with our politics\, particularly around trans liberation and sex work decriminalisation. \n‘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. \nWe’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. \nThe Open Access version of this book\, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. \nThe series will take place over four sessions: \nTuesday 25th July \n\nIntroduction: The demonisation of “gender” and the crisis of democracy.\nChapter 1: Gender\, anti-gender and right-wing populism: Recasting the debate.\n\nTuesday 29th August \n\nChapter 2: Mapping the anti-gender campaigns as a global movement: From religious trend to political struggle.\nChapter 3: “Worse than communism and nazism put together”: Poland’s anti-gender campaigns in a comparative perspective.\n\nTuesday 26th September \n\nChapter 4: Gender as “Ebola from Brussels”: The uses and abuses of the anti-colonial frame.\nChapter 5: Anxious parents and children in danger: The family as a refuge from Neoliberalism.\n\nTuesday 24th October \n\nChapter 6: Counteracting anti-gender movements: Towards a populist feminism?\nConclusions: Gender in the populist moment.\n\nPlease 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. \nThese 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. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-reading-group-anti-gender-politics-in-the-populist-moment-part-3/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/anti-gender-politics.png ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230917T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230917T180000 DTSTAMP:20230607T203415Z CREATED:20230530T163858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230607T203415Z UID:4027-1694964600-1694973600@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:September organising meeting DESCRIPTION: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 of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). \nThis month’s political discussion is: tbc \nLocation: Golden Lane Community Centre\, Fann Street\, London EC1Y 0SA \nNote: If you haven’t been to one of our organising meeting before and want to attend please email us so we can expect you. If you would like to speak to someone before the meeting\, need help with childcare or there is anything else we can do to make it easier for you to attend\, please get in touch. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/september-organising-meeting-5/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/monthly_organising.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230915T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230915T210000 DTSTAMP:20230901T163400Z CREATED:20230831T165126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230901T163400Z UID:4096-1694804400-1694811600@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Reproductive Justice - Where next? DESCRIPTION: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. \nWe came together because anti-abortion\, anti-queer\, anti-trans and anti-migrant politics are linked – and our struggle for a liberatory future must be linked too. \n  \nTaking action together on the 2nd of September was one way for us to counter the reactionary and oppressive and gendered politics of the hard right – but the struggle continues. Join us on the evening of 15 September 2023 to take stock\, and to think together about where we go from here. \n  \nWe will meet from 7-9pm at Dalston Curve Garden\, Dalston Lane\, E8. The venue is wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. It is outdoors (with some rain cover)\, so please dress accordingly. \n  \nAll welcome – we welcome people of all genders\, and we would love to have you at the meeting whether you came to the action or not. Please let us know if you can make it by emailing feminist.fightback@gmail.com. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/reproductive-justice-where-next/ LOCATION:Dalston Curve Garden\, 13 Dalston Lane\, London\, E8 3DF\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Public Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/15_sept.png ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230902T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230902T150000 DTSTAMP:20230615T120921Z CREATED:20230615T120823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230615T120921Z UID:4051-1693656000-1693666800@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Our Bodies Our Lives Our Right to Decide DESCRIPTION:❌On 2nd September 2023 the anti-abortion organisation ‘March for Life’ will descend on London to demand an end to abortion under any circumstances ❌  \n  \n📣JOIN US ON THE STREETS TO OPPOSE THEM with JOY \nâ€ïžâ€đŸ”„ Our Bodies – Our lives – Our Right to Decide â€ïžâ€đŸ”„ \n  \n📍2 SEPTEMBER | 12:00 | OUTSIDE THE HOME OFFICE (2 Marsham Street\, LDN)  \n  \nGiven everything that has happened this week and the ongoing criminalization of abortion\, we are taking to the streets to defend our reproductive rights. We are part of a coalition of feminist\, queer\, trans\, migrant and anti-racist activists who refuse to allow the politics of bigotry to take over our streets. \n\nMarch for life is an off-shoot of a US organisation\, newly emboldened by the overturning of Roe vs Wade\, their theme for their march this year is #FreedomtoLive. \n  \n🌞For us #Freedomtolive means freedom over what happens to our bodies\, freedom to love who we want\, freedom to walk the streets without fear\, and freedom to cross borders (and to stay!). It means free healthcare\, education\, and public services. Join us to make sure our vision of freedom is the one that holds the day!  \n  \nACT UP \nBRAZIL MATTERS \nFEMINIST FIGHTBACK \nWOMEN’S STRIKE ASSEMBLY \nLONDON ANTI-FASCIST ASSEMBLY \nINDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD \nFEMINIST ASSEMBLY OF LATIN AMERICANS \nSEX WORKER ADVOCACY AND RESISTANCE MOVEMENT \nđŸ”„âœŠđŸ»âœŠđŸŒâœŠđŸœâœŠđŸŸâœŠđŸżđŸ”„ \n  URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/our-bodies-our-lives-our-right-to-decide/ LOCATION:The Home Office\, 2 Marsham Street\, London\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Direct Action,Public Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/OBOC-TWITTER-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230829T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230829T210000 DTSTAMP:20230712T225143Z CREATED:20230607T201208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230712T225143Z UID:4043-1693337400-1693342800@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Reading Group: Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment - Part 2 DESCRIPTION: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 ElĆŒbieta Korolczuk. This book is much more aligned with our politics\, particularly around trans liberation and sex work decriminalisation. \n‘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. \nWe’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. \nThe Open Access version of this book\, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. \nThe series will take place over four sessions: \nTuesday 25th July \n\nIntroduction: The demonisation of “gender” and the crisis of democracy.\nChapter 1: Gender\, anti-gender and right-wing populism: Recasting the debate.\n\nTuesday 29th August \n\nChapter 2: Mapping the anti-gender campaigns as a global movement: From religious trend to political struggle.\nChapter 3: “Worse than communism and nazism put together”: Poland’s anti-gender campaigns in a comparative perspective.\n\nTuesday 26th September \n\nChapter 4: Gender as “Ebola from Brussels”: The uses and abuses of the anti-colonial frame.\nChapter 5: Anxious parents and children in danger: The family as a refuge from Neoliberalism.\n\nTuesday 24th October \n\nChapter 6: Counteracting anti-gender movements: Towards a populist feminism?\nConclusions: Gender in the populist moment.\n\nPlease 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. \nThese 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. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-reading-group-anti-gender-politics-in-the-populist-moment-part-2/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/anti-gender-politics.png ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230826T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230826T160000 DTSTAMP:20230727T195045Z CREATED:20230727T195044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230727T195045Z UID:4087-1693051200-1693065600@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Rehearsal for Un Violador en tu Camino / A Rapist in your Path + Pañuelo Making +  Assembly on Reproductive Rights for all!  DESCRIPTION:ENG \n  \n💚 Rehearsal for Un Violador en tu Camino / A Rapist in your Path + Pañuelo Making +  Assembly on Reproductive Rights for all!  \n📌 26 of August\, Golden Lane Community Center   \nđŸȘ§ Join us to prepare for the demonstration on the 2nd of September đŸ’„Our Bodies Our Lives Our Right to Decide đŸ’„where we will be opposing March for Life\, a pro-life group that is campaigning to ban abortion. \n👐 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.  \n💜 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. \nESP  \n  \n💚 Ensayo de Un Violador en tu Camino + Pañuelo Workshop + Asamblea sobre Derechos Reproductivos para todos!\n \n📌 26 de Agosto\, Golden Lane Community Center   \nđŸȘ§ Acompåñanos a preparar la manifestaciĂłn del 2 de Septiembre đŸ’„Nuestros Cuerpos Nuestras Vidas Nuestro Derecho a Decidir đŸ’„ donde nos opondremos a Marcha For Life\, grupo pro-vida que esta haciendo campaña para prohibir el aborto. \n👐 Ensayaremos juntos el baile (en InglĂ©s + Español) y haremos una asamblea sobre el tema de los derechos reproductivos\, mientras hacemos pañuelos antes de la manifestaciĂłn. Nosotras aportaremos la comida! \n💜 Todes les feministas son bienvenides! Este es un espacio feminista trans-inclusivo – queremos hablar de los derechos reproductivos para TODES. \n  \nPOR: \n \n💚 Ensaio de ‘Um Estuprador em seu Caminho’ + Oficina de bandanas + Assembleia sobre direitos reprodutivos para todes!  \n📌26 de agosto\, Centro ComunitĂĄrio Golden Lane   \nđŸȘ§ Junte-se a nĂłs em preparação para a manifestação de 2 de setembro đŸ’„Nossos Corpos Nossas Vidas Nosso Direito de Decidir đŸ’„ quando estaremos opondo o March for Life\, um grupo prĂł-vida que estĂĄ fazendo campanha para proibir o aborto. \n👐 Ensaiaremos a dança juntes (em inglĂȘs + espanhol) e faremos uma assembleia sobre direitos reprodutivos\, enquanto confeccionamos bandanas para a manifestação. A comida Ă© por nossa conta!  \n💜 Feministas sĂŁo todes bem-vindes! Este Ă© um espaço feminista trans-inclusivo – queremos falar sobre direitos reprodutivos para TODES. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/rehearsal-for-un-violador-en-tu-camino-a-rapist-in-your-path-panuelo-making-assembly-on-reproductive-rights-for-all/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Public Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/ENG_26Assembly.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230820T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230820T180000 DTSTAMP:20230607T203546Z CREATED:20230530T163709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230607T203546Z UID:4025-1692545400-1692554400@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:August organising meeting DESCRIPTION: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 of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). \nThis month’s political discussion is: tbc \nLocation: Golden Lane Community Centre\, Fann Street\, London EC1Y 0SA \nNote: If you haven’t been to one of our organising meeting before and want to attend please email us so we can expect you. If you would like to speak to someone before the meeting\, need help with childcare or there is anything else we can do to make it easier for you to attend\, please get in touch. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/august-organising-meeting-2/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/monthly_organising.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230725T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230725T210000 DTSTAMP:20230712T224551Z CREATED:20230530T163354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230712T224551Z UID:4021-1690313400-1690318800@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Reading Group: Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment - Part 1 DESCRIPTION: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 ElĆŒbieta Korolczuk. This book is much more aligned with our politics\, particularly around trans liberation and sex work decriminalisation. \n‘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. \nWe’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. \nThe Open Access version of this book\, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. \nThe series will take place over four sessions: \nTuesday 25th July \n\nIntroduction: The demonisation of “gender” and the crisis of democracy.\nChapter 1: Gender\, anti-gender and right-wing populism: Recasting the debate.\n\nTuesday 29th August \n\nChapter 2: Mapping the anti-gender campaigns as a global movement: From religious trend to political struggle.\nChapter 3: “Worse than communism and nazism put together”: Poland’s anti-gender campaigns in a comparative perspective.\n\nTuesday 26th September \n\nChapter 4: Gender as “Ebola from Brussels”: The uses and abuses of the anti-colonial frame.\nChapter 5: Anxious parents and children in danger: The family as a refuge from Neoliberalism.\n\nTuesday 24th October \n\nChapter 6: Counteracting anti-gender movements: Towards a populist feminism?\nConclusions: Gender in the populist moment.\n\nPlease 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. \nThese 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. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-reading-group-anti-gender-politics-in-the-populist-moment-part-1/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/anti-gender-politics.png ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230716T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230716T180000 DTSTAMP:20230607T203800Z CREATED:20230530T163544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230607T203800Z UID:4023-1689521400-1689530400@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:July organising meeting DESCRIPTION: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 of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). \nThis month’s political discussion is: tbc \nLocation: Golden Lane Community Centre\, Fann Street\, London EC1Y 0SA \nNote: If you haven’t been to one of our organising meeting before and want to attend please email us so we can expect you. If you would like to speak to someone before the meeting\, need help with childcare or there is anything else we can do to make it easier for you to attend\, please get in touch. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/july-organising-meeting-5/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/monthly_organising.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230630T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230630T220000 DTSTAMP:20230607T201346Z CREATED:20230530T171242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230607T201346Z UID:4029-1688151600-1688162400@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Filmclub presents: 4 Months\, 3 Weeks and 2 Days DESCRIPTION: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. \nWhen 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. \nWe’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. \nPlease note\, the film contains scenes of medical procedures and sexual exploitation. \n \nExhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle very much encouraged. Drinks and snacks will be available. \nSuggested donations on the door ÂŁ2/5/10 unwaged/waged/solidarity. \nAll genders welcome. \nDoors open at 7pm. \nACCESS: \nWaterloo Action Centre is located at 14 Baylis Road\, SE1 7A\, close to Waterloo station\, near to the Old Vic theatre. The closest tube and train station is Waterloo.  The closest bus stops are Baylis road served by the 59 and 76 and The Old Vic served by the 1\, 68\, 168\, 172\, 176\, 188\, C10. \nThe event will take place in the mezzanine hall of Waterloo Action Centre which is on the first floor and is accessible via lift. Toilets are located on the ground floor of the centre. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-filmclub-presents-4-months-3-weeks-and-2-days/ LOCATION:Waterloo Action Centre\, 14 Baylis Road\, Waterloo\, London\, SE1 7AA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Feminist Fightback Film Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/filmclub_4m3w2d.png ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230627T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230627T210000 DTSTAMP:20230416T194616Z CREATED:20230304T224816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230416T194616Z UID:3940-1687894200-1687899600@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Reading Group: Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World by Leslie Kern - Part 3 DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe series will take place over three sessions: \n\n Tuesday 25th April – Introduction: City of Men & Chapter 1: City of Moms\n Tuesday 30th May – Chapter 2: City of Friends & Chapter 3: City of One\n Tuesday 27th June – Chapter 4: City of Protest & Chapter 5: City of Fear & City of Possibility\n\nIn 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. \nPlease 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.\nfeminist.fightback@gmail.com \nThese 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. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-reading-group-feminist-city-claiming-space-in-a-man-made-world-by-leslie-kern-part-3/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/feministcity-reading.png ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230618T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230618T180000 DTSTAMP:20230303T234809Z CREATED:20230210T164616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230303T234809Z UID:3905-1687102200-1687111200@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:June organising meeting DESCRIPTION: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 of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). \nThis month’s political discussion is: tbc \nLocation: Golden Lane Community Centre\, Fann Street\, London EC1Y 0SA \nNote: If you haven’t been to one of our organising meeting before and want to attend please email us so we can expect you. If you would like to speak to someone before the meeting\, need help with childcare or there is anything else we can do to make it easier for you to attend\, please get in touch. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/june-organising-meeting-5/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/monthly_organising.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230530T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230530T210000 DTSTAMP:20230416T194653Z CREATED:20230304T224647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230416T194653Z UID:3938-1685475000-1685480400@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Reading Group: Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World by Leslie Kern - Part 2 DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe series will take place over three sessions: \n\n Tuesday 25th April – Introduction: City of Men & Chapter 1: City of Moms\n Tuesday 30th May – Chapter 2: City of Friends & Chapter 3: City of One\n Tuesday 27th June – Chapter 4: City of Protest & Chapter 5: City of Fear & City of Possibility\n\nIn 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. \nPlease 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.\nfeminist.fightback@gmail.com \nThese 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. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-reading-group-feminist-city-claiming-space-in-a-man-made-world-by-leslie-kern-part-2/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/feministcity-reading.png ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230521T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230521T180000 DTSTAMP:20230303T234721Z CREATED:20230210T164454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230303T234721Z UID:3903-1684683000-1684692000@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:May organising meeting DESCRIPTION: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 of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). \nThis month’s political discussion is: tbc \nLocation: Golden Lane Community Centre\, Fann Street\, London EC1Y 0SA \nNote: If you haven’t been to one of our organising meeting before and want to attend please email us so we can expect you. If you would like to speak to someone before the meeting\, need help with childcare or there is anything else we can do to make it easier for you to attend\, please get in touch. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/may-organising-meeting-5/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/monthly_organising.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230428T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230428T220000 DTSTAMP:20230416T194750Z CREATED:20230210T163947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230416T194750Z UID:3895-1682708400-1682719200@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Filmclub presents: The Janes DESCRIPTION:This month we will be showing a documentary about events in 1970s that are once again topical. \nThe 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. \nThe film showing will be followed by a discussion featuring two guest speakers. \nJane 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. \nSue 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. \nFeminist 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. \nDoors open at 7pm for a 7.30 start. All genders welcome. \nThis is a free screening\, with donations collected on the night. Drinks and snacks will be available. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-filmclub-presents-the-janes/ LOCATION:Vibast Community Centre\, 167 Old Street\, London\, EC1V 9NH\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Feminist Fightback Film Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/the-janes.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230425T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230425T210000 DTSTAMP:20230416T194536Z CREATED:20230304T224510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230416T194536Z UID:3935-1682451000-1682456400@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Reading Group: Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World by Leslie Kern - Part 1 DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe series will take place over three sessions: \n\n Tuesday 25th April – Introduction: City of Men & Chapter 1: City of Moms\n Tuesday 30th May – Chapter 2: City of Friends & Chapter 3: City of One\n Tuesday 27th June – Chapter 4: City of Protest & Chapter 5: City of Fear & City of Possibility\n\nIn 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. \nPlease 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.\nfeminist.fightback@gmail.com \nThese 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. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-reading-group-feminist-city-claiming-space-in-a-man-made-world-by-leslie-kern-part-1/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Reading Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/feministcity-reading.png ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230416T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230416T180000 DTSTAMP:20230303T224954Z CREATED:20230303T224752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230303T224954Z UID:3929-1681659000-1681668000@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:April organising meeting DESCRIPTION: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 of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). \nThis month’s political discussion is: tbc \nLocation: Golden Lane Community Centre\, Fann Street\, London EC1Y 0SA \nNote: If you haven’t been to one of our organising meeting before and want to attend please email us so we can expect you. If you would like to speak to someone before the meeting\, need help with childcare or there is anything else we can do to make it easier for you to attend\, please get in touch. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/april-organising-meeting-6/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/monthly_organising.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230319T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230319T180000 DTSTAMP:20230210T164210Z CREATED:20221119T125939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230210T164210Z UID:3861-1679239800-1679248800@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:March organising meeting DESCRIPTION: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 of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). \nThis month’s political discussion is: tbc \nLocation: Golden Lane Community Centre\, Fann Street\, London EC1Y 0SA \nNote: If you haven’t been to one of our organising meeting before and want to attend please email us so we can expect you. If you would like to speak to someone before the meeting\, need help with childcare or there is anything else we can do to make it easier for you to attend\, please get in touch. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/march-organising-meeting-4/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/monthly_organising.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230311T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230311T170000 DTSTAMP:20230307T223858Z CREATED:20221218T185545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230307T223858Z UID:3887-1678543200-1678554000@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Filmclub presents: The Modi Question- Joint film screening with Peace in India DESCRIPTION:Join Peace in India and Feminist Fightback for a screening of the recent BBC documentary\, “The Modi Question”\, which examines the Indian Prime Minister’s role in deadly sectarian riots in 2002 and the impact of his government’s Hindu supremacist policies on India’s Muslim communities. \nPlease register via EventBrite for this screening + discussion with activists from India\, via Zoom. \nThe documentary and the Indian Government’s moves to ban it are illustrative examples of the hard right’s transnational reach\, and its authoritarianism. The documentary caused uproar in the corporate media in India\, was banned on Twitter\, and has led the Indian government to raid the BBC India offices. All this\, for bringing to international audiences what Indian journalists have known for quite some time\, but which a servile corporate media – and ‘friendly’ Western governments – have been all too eager to ignore. \nWe will be joined for a discussion via Zoom by three student activists in India who have faced incarceration for expressing dissent with the policies of the BJP government\, and experienced brutal violence perpetrated by the BJP’s student wing:\n\nAishe Ghosh\, student leader and politician from the Student Federation of India and former President of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union\nNatasha Narwal\, activist with the student feminist collective Pinjra Tod\nSafoora Zargar\, student leader and campaigner fighting for justice for atrocities committed against the Muslim community in India\n\nAll genders welcome. \nThe venue has accessible toilet facilities and a lift. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-filmclub-presents-tbc/ LOCATION:Golden Lane community centre\, Fann Street\, London\, EC1Y 0SA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Feminist Fightback Film Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/filmclub_modi-question2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230308T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230308T183000 DTSTAMP:20230228T220623Z CREATED:20230228T215450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230228T220623Z UID:3915-1678300200-1678300200@www.feministfightback.org.uk SUMMARY:International Women's Strike - 8 March 2023 DESCRIPTION:Feminist Fightback will be joining sisters and comrades on the streets this International Women’s Day. See you there! \n8TH MARCH 2023 \n\n6:30 PM @ TRAFALGAR SQUARE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Transnational Strike of all Women and Gender Non-Conforming folks take the streets to fight alongside our siblings\, to resist capitalist\, colonial and patriarchal exploitation!\n\n\n\n\nIndividualistic thinking maintains the status quo- and the conservative fascist nightmare that is unfolding in the UK demands collective resistance.\n\n\n\n\nTrans and migrant rights are under attack from the far-right and the government. The Police remain a violent institution that protects the interests of those who rape\, abuse and harrass us\, systematically.\n\n\n\n\nAround the world\, our sisters shout WOMEN LIFE FREEDOM from Kurdistan to Peru. They fight for liberation and sovereignty against violent and repressive states. We stand with them because this is our fight here too.\n\n\n\n\nWe are taking action to resist together\, and through rage and rebellious joy take up space to make our voices heard.\n\n\n\n\nWE STRIKE BECAUSE:\n\n\n1. in the UK alone 3 women are killed by men per week. We strike against femicide and to demand an end to the sexist\, homophobic\, and transphobic violence.\n2. in the past 5 years\, over 2000 police officers in the UK have been accused of sexual misconduct. We need to put an end to the silence pact that continues to protect their institutional misogyny and racism.\n3. we still get paid less than men for the same job and we overwhelmingly do the house work and care work on top of it.\n4. this government incites racist violence through its hostile environment and anti-refugee rhetoric. And we do not want the UK to continue to perpetuate imperialism.\n5. we are in full solidarity with all the UK workers who demand the government to prioritise living conditions\, and pay\, over an extortionate capitalist pursuit of profit.\n6. fossil fuel companies are making record profits\, while over 3 million households cannot afford to heat their homes.\n7. we strike with fury and love for the sisters that are no longer with us. For Brianna Ghey. For Sarah Everard. For Sarah Reed.\n8. WE STRIKE AS A WAY TO BUILD BETTER WORLDS TOGETHER. URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/womens-strike-2023/ LOCATION:Trafalgar Square\, London\, WC2N 5DN CATEGORIES:Direct Action ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/IMG_101362348AF2-1.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR