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  • ‘Tis the Season to be Comradely

    London Action Resource Centre

    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)

  • The S Word: A Conversation on Feminist Sex and Relationship Education

    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 […]

  • Women at the Cutting Edge 20th October 2010

    Feminists Responses to Attacks on the Welfare State!

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

    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 […]

  • Feminist Fightback

    Public Meeting on Feminism, Childcare and Reproductive Labour

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

    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 […]

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club: Born In Flames

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

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

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club: Valentines Day Edition

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