The Feminist Duration Reading Group was set up in London in 2015 to explore lesser-known feminist texts from outside the Anglo-American feminist tradition, combining this with discussions of current feminist issues and urgencies.

On their visit to Hypatia, Giulia Antonioli, Sabrina Fuller, and Helena Reckitt of the FDRG will share texts and inspiration from black feminist writings, Italy and Indonesia.

No advance reading is required as we will read texts out loud together and then discuss.

Thanks to Cultivator this is a free event with refreshments.

2pm networking and coffee

2.30-45pm introduction to the FDRG and our visitors Giulia Antonioli, Sabrina Fuller, and Helena Reckitt

3.00- 4.30pm reading and discussion sessions

5.00-6.00pm informal networking and refreshments

More information

The Feminist Duration Reading Group welcomes everyone to explore the feminist legacy and its resonance in art, thinking and collective practice. If there are enough people who are interested in forming a local reading group we may also discuss the viability of this.

Details about The Feminist Duration Reading Group, London can be found here: http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/news/feminist-duration-reading-group-dec-2018/

Specific text details to be read. Copies will be made available:

Milan Women’s Bookshop Collective, The Practice of Doing, in Sexual Difference: A Theory of Social- Symbolic Practice, trans. Patricia Cicogna and Teresa de Lauretis, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Hazel V Carby, White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood, in The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in Seventies Britain, edited by the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 1982.

Khairani Barokka, ‘Moon Dances with Three Planets,’ ‘Eve and Mary Are Having Coffee,’ and ‘Coffee Monologues,’ (excerpts from solo spoken word/art show Eve and Mary Are Having Coffee) in Poems and other myths: a collection of spoken word poetry by women from Asia, Big Bridge Press, 2016.

Khairni Barokka, Indigenous Species, London: Tilted Axis Press, 2016 (selections)