Open to all genders and everyone else! Join us for mince pies, mulled wine, gefilte fish balls, music, dancing and two great short films. ‘Mothers’ Strike’: A film about a hunger strike for housing by single mothers in Poland (2008) ‘People for Tomorrow’: A film by Selma James about reproductive labour and equal pay (1970)
We are a group from a diversity of backgrounds with an interest in the attitudes surrounding Sex and Relationships Education. We feel that a key reason why much SRE for young people is unsatisfactory is that as a society we have problems discussing, and having, sex and relationships in empowering ways. We therefore believe that […]
Feminist Fightback has been thinking about the gendered effects of the benefit cuts, holding ‘Women at the Cutting Edge’ in 2010, authoring ‘Cuts are a feminist issue’ and being involved in the Save Hackney Nurseries Campaign. We have long wrestled with the dilemma of how to defend services while refusing to be satisfied with the […]
If you require childcare for this meeting please email feminist.fightback@gmail.com. As the Coalition government forces more and more mothers to return to work while their children are still very young, a growing right wing lobby argues conversely that staying at home to look after the children should be valued and supported. The feminist movement has long grappled with the […]
Made in 1983, ‘Born in Flames’ (dir. Lizzie Borden) is an incredible docu-drama/ sci fi film set in the future, ten years after a social democratic revolution which has established American Socialism. However, Black and working-class women are not happy with this form of reformism and start arming themselves and forming the women’s army to bring about […]
Its Valentines Day! Come to Feminist Fightback's film screening of She's a Punk Rocker UK by Zillah Minx and celebrate your love of mohawks, badass women, the 80's, swearing, neon, drums and so forth. Music, dancing and chat to follow. Zillah Minx ( from the band Rubella Ballet) tells the story with the women of […]
At the next installment of Feminist Fightback Film Club, we will be presenting: "Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger" For decades, performance artist and writer, Kate Bornstein, has been exploding binaries and deconstructing gender—and her own identity. Trans-dyke. Reluctant polyamorist. Sadomasochist. Recovering Scientologist. Pioneering gender outlaw. Kate Bornstein Is a Queer & Pleasant […]
Inspired by the current Focus E15 Mothers struggle for social housing in Newham, London, and past and present housing struggles in the UK and abroad, this month's Feminist Fightback Film Club takes housing as its theme. Mothers' Strike (22', Szum TV/ Feminist Think Tank Poland, 2010) - introduced by Magda who made the film Behind the Rent Strike […]
For November's Feminist Fightback Film Club, we'll be screening 12th and Delaware: a documentary revolving around a 'pregnancy care centre' set up across the road from an abortion clinic in suburban Florida. Pregnancy care centres/crisis centres are unregulated clinics set up to look like providers of medical advice for pregnant women, with the aim of […]
What is the connection between day-to-day workplace organising and wider anti-capitalist struggle? What is our role as ‘revolutionaries’ in our own workplaces? What kinds of workplace struggles open up possibilities for wider and more fundamental social and political change, and what kinds simply reproduce existing hierarchies and end up containing class struggle? This discussion event […]
A Christmas/Hanukkah/solstice/communist social Including film showing of Paris is Burning, followed by a 1980s themed queer dance disco. Come and join us. All welcome. Suggested donations £3 low/unwaged; £5 waged. Join the Facebook event here. www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight www.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback
We'll be discussing feminist responses to the HPV vaccine in the UK and India. All self-defining women welcome to organising meetings, this includes trans women and intersex women. Please contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you to bring along any small people to the meeting. If you […]
For January's Film Club we will be screening United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, jointly and in solidarity with the group, who will be leading a discussion afterwards. United In Anger is a unique feature-length documentary that combines startling archival footage which puts the audience on the ground with the activists, and remarkably […]
This month, Feminist Fightback Film Club will be screening Eyes of the Rainbow, Gloria Rolanda's 1997 documentary about the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army activist Assata Shakur. There will be a post-screening discussion. Drinks and dancing to follow. Come and join us for this anti-Valentine's day special. All welcome. Suggested donations £3 low/unwaged; £5 […]
All self-defining women welcome to organising meetings, this includes trans women and intersex women. Please contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you to bring along any small people to the meeting. If you have any other access issues please get in touch! www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight […]
Over the last few years, the space outside many abortion clinics in England has become contested. Right-wing religious groups have been making their presence felt outside clinics, both with prayer vigils complete with hymns and religious icons, and through the deployment of specially trained ‘pavement councillors’ who make great efforts to stop women going into […]
Come and join us. All welcome. Suggested donations £3 low/unwaged; £5 waged. Join the Facebook event here. www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight www.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback
All self-defining women welcome to organising meetings, this includes trans women and intersex women. Please contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you to bring along any small people to the meeting. If you have any other access issues please get in touch! www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight […]
A religious anti-abortion group are planning a procession from their church to a nearby abortion clinic. We can't let this go unchallenged - they might have a right to express their opinion, but they don't have a god-given right to stand outside a clinic, peddle lies and intimidate and harass people. As well as making […]
All self-defining women welcome to organising meetings, this includes trans women and intersex women. Please contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you to bring along any small people to the meeting. If you have any other access issues please get in touch! www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight […]
All self-defining women welcome to organising meetings, this includes trans women and intersex women. Please contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you to bring along any small people to the meeting. If you have any other access issues please get in touch! www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight […]
Virginie Despentes' 2009 documentary, Mutantes (Punk Porn Feminism), provides a context for the Post Porn movement (Punk Porn Feminism) which seeks to re-frame pornography as a creative activity that constructs and deconstructs ideas of gender, power, politics and equality. The documentary aims to provide answers to the understanding of porn from the perspective of pro-sex […]
Join Feminist Fightback for our screening of the playful French new wave film Les Stances à Sophie (1971, 97 minutes). Based on the feminist novel by Christiane Rochefort, the film explores themes of sexual liberation, the bourgeois family and its claustrophobic stranglehold, capitalist greed and its environmental catastrophe, set amongst a backdrop of music, poetry […]
The next Feminist Fightback London organising meeting will take place on Sunday 19th July, 4-6pm at The Common House. All self-defining women welcome, this includes trans* women. Let us know in advance if you have any access requirements we can help with, including childcare.
Join us on Sunday for the London meeting of Feminist Fightback. We'll start with a political discussion about the Indignados movement in Spain and the move towards electoral politics. The second half of the meeting will be for organising - we'll be discussing our ongoing pro-choice activity, the upcoming Festival for Choice, our plans for […]
Organised by the Focus E15 Campaign, supported by Feminist Fightback You can visit the facebook event page here or see them on twitter @FocusE15 To mark the 2nd anniversary of Focus E15 campaign we are organising a march in Newham against evictions and for decent housing for all. For more information
All self-defining women welcome to organising meetings, this includes trans women and intersex women. Please contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you to bring along any small people to the meeting. If you have any other access issues please get in touch! Click here for the FB […]
Come and join us. All welcome. Suggested donations £3 low/unwaged; £5 waged. Join the Facebook event here. www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight www.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback
Feminist Fightback are delighted to be attending Connecting European Struggles; Feminism in the Crisis Conference in Malmö, Sweden 18-20 September 2015. In particular, we are honored to be co-hosting a session on 'Fighting for Reproductive Justice - a Review on Feminist Strategies and Right-Wing Attacks' with E*Vibes (Germany) 14:00-15:30, 20th Sept 2015 More information
Feminist Fightback are delighted to be hosting pro choice screening + discussion at the Festival of Choice, Wednesday 23rd September, 7pm (The May Day Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH). For more information Join the Facebook event
Feminist Fightback are delighted to be hosting pro choice screening + discussion at the Festival of Choice, Wednesday 23rd September, 7pm (The May Day Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH). We’ll be screening Twelfth and Delaware, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing’s 2010 documentary, following a group of anti-abortion protestors in Florida as they set up […]
Join Feminist Fightback for an evening of 'Feminism Past and Present' 6pm, 15th October 2015, Genesis Cinema, London The special screening of 'Suffragette' will be followed by a Q&A with Laura Schwartz (author of Infidel Feminism and historian of the women's suffrage movement at the University of Warwick) and Alice Robson (a member of the […]
Our political discussion this month will be on electoral politics, in the light of recent successes for ‘citizen’s platforms’ in mayoral elections in Spain, and Jeremy Corbyn’s success in the Labour leadership contest. In the second hour, we’ll make plans for our activity in the next month and beyond. All self-defining women welcome to organising […]
Last year, we held a debate at The Anarchist Bookfair on how to resist anti-abortion campaigners in the context of an escalation in the aggression and activity of these groups outside of clinics and differing opinions on how to confront them within the feminist community. We also felt that this rise was linked with the […]
Last year we held a debate on how to resist anti-abortion campaigners in the context of an escalation in the aggression and activity of these groups outside of clinics and differing opinions on how to confront them within the feminist community. We also felt that this rise was linked with the rise of fascists and […]
We meet monthly to discuss political issues through an intersectional lens and some of the ways we resist sexist, racist capitalism. New members are always welcome. Please contact us if you need childcare. Members often bring small people to the meeting, or we will provide funding if you need to make other arrangements. If you have […]
Feminist Fightback film club is delighted to have the opportunity to screen 2 amazing short documentaries on the Friday 13th November from 7:30pm at the Common House Rebel Menopause by Adele Tulli : Rebel Menopause is the intimate portrait of Therese Clerc, a french 85 years old woman and a militant feminist whose passion for […]
""All I want for Christmas is world revolution." "All I want for Christmas is full communism." "All I want for Christmas is the abolition of imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy" Friday, 18th December, 7pm – 11pm DJ sets from Girl Germs and Raymond Girl Germs is a feminist, not-for-profit club night which raises funds for […]
As usual, we will have a political discussion followed by some plotting and planning of actions and events. *All self-defining women welcome.* Please contact us in advance if you have any accessibility requirements, including childcare. For more information: FB Group Have you *liked* our Facebook page? Why not join our FB group? Stay up-to-date by following […]
We are kicking off a new Feminist Fightback reading group for the new year, reading Lynne Segal's Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure. The book was originally published in 1994, Segal's contribution to the contentious debates in the feminist movement on the possibilities and problems of heterosexual desire for women. Still relevant today, the book has […]
Women for Refugee Women will gather outside the Home Office to send a message of "Set Her Free" and "Refugees Welcome" - with performances by Lips Choir, Gaggle, Sula Mae, Sabrina Mahfouz, Demi Mseleku, Nyakaza (Move) African Dancers, Sajeela Kershi, and The London Klezmer Quartet, plus speakers including: Meltem Avcil (ex child detainee and Set […]
Shut Down Yarl's Wood! Saturday 12th March Feminist Fightback North and Feminist Fightback London members will be joining the demonstration at the Yarl's Wood Detention Centre in Bedfordshire, organised by Movement for Justice. Feminist Fightback have been involved in organising and supporting protests regarding Yarl’s Wood for many years – especially in light of repeated allegations of […]
Feminist Fightback Film Club presents... Je ne suis pas féministe mais Friday 18th March, 7.30-10pm. We'll be screening Sylvie Tissot and Florence Tissot's 2015 documentary about the political life of the French feminist Christine Delphy. The film will be followed by a discussion. Snacks available and we will again have the cheapest bar in East […]
*Al self-defining women welcome.* Our next organising meeting will be on Sunday 20th March from 4-6pm at the Common House. As usual we will have a political discussion, followed by day-today organising business. Please contact us in advance if you have any accessibility requirements, including childcare. Feminist Fightback are a trans friendly group, whose planning meetings […]
Feminist Fightback are planning a big counter action against the religious anti-choice brigade in April. Autonomy over our bodies is not negotiable, and we won't stand by and see our access to abortion threatened. This is an open invitation to all groups and individuals who want to take part and help plan and organise the […]
After a great first meeting last week, join us for our second organising meeting as we plot and plan for an action in east London on Saturday 16th April. We will discuss 'plan b' scenarios, firm up stuff and make banners so bring material (we will provide the paint). Thursday 7th April, 7pm at The […]
Feminist Fightback Film Club is excited to be screening Ken Loach’s powerful docudrama Cathy Come Home next Friday April 15th at 7.30pm at the Common House. 50 years ago in 1966, the controversy generated by Cathy Come Home led to public outrage at the state of housing in Britain. In 2016, the situation is no […]
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