Our next regular Partisan Reading Group session is on the topic of ✨Antifascist Feminism ✨

Sunday 19th October, 3-5pm, Bridge 5 Mill

All the readings for this session are quite accessible. We always welcome new people and no prior knowledge/experience is required, so hope to see folks there 😊

Readings are either in links or found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JtmXaVuEPwSTmsx2wzLC0Sem9Lli6X0n

Core readings:

Sophie Lewis's 'Enemy Feminisms' - Introduction (pp11-29)

Lola Olufemi's 'Feminism, Interrupted' - short extract from the introduction: pp19-23

And 'No bounds' section: pp162-7

Optional extra readings:

Saadiya Hartman one-page chapter 'Wayward: A Short Entry on the Possible' (p 203 in 'Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments')

Extract from 'Fascism and the Women's Cause: Gender Critical Feminism, Suffragettes and the Women's KKK'

First section until 'US Suffragism'

https://libcom.org/article/fascism-and-womens-cause-gender-critical-feminism-suffragettes-and-womens-kkk

'Feminism, biological fundamentalism and the attack on trans rights'

https://irr.org.uk/article/feminism-biological-fundamentalism-attack-on-trans-rights/

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Some suggested questions for reflection while you read:

* Why might fascist visions of womanhood appeal to some women? What's the outcome of this?

* How have fascist ideas about womanhood and gender been spread into the mainstream? Where do we encounter them in our lives?

* How do these texts suggest we can make our feminism anti-fascist?