GFN Attends: Black Lives Matter Solidariteitsprotest Emmen – June 21st

🏳️‍🌈 This week’s event will be a sign-making session IN PERSON in preparation for Queer Pride Groningen – which is taking place on Sunday 29.05.2022 at 13:00 at Grote Markt. Do you still need to make your sign or do you want to help make some for other protest attendees? 🏳️‍🌈 What to bring: Cardboard,…

In this week’s meeting, we will have a presentation on and discuss disability and new eugenics.  CW: ableism, historical oppression of disabled people.  New eugenics is the name currently given to certain structures in society that directly or indirectly threaten the lives of people with disabilities.  Bio-ethicists are, for instance, worried that new technologies like genetic…

🏳️‍🌈 This week, we will be watching the documentary ‘Pinkwashing Exposed’ (2017). 🏳️‍🌈 SYNOPSIS❌ Pinkwashing Exposed is an hour-long documentary on anti-pinkwashing and Palestine solidarity activism in Seattle edited by Amy Mahardy and directed by Dean Spade. ❌ “Pinkwashing” is a term activists have coined for when countries engaged in terrible human rights violations promote…

Dear book enthusiasts, feminists and fellow queers,for October, we read ‘The House on Mango Street’ by Sandra Cisneros, which tells the story of a young Chicana girl growing into adolescence. Let’s get together and discuss our thoughts, questions and insights. If the weather is still nice, we might have another literary picnic next to the…