GFN Weekly Meeting: Sign-making and queer protest – June 23rd

When: Wednesday, June 23rdTime: 8pmWhere: Link to online meeting on facebook This week, we will prepare some signs for Queer Pride Groningen and some activists campaigning for queer liberation in Poland will tell us about their campaign. ✊🇵🇱 They will be talking about the current situation in Poland and especially shed some light on an…

GFN x GFN Book Club Pride Edition: The Colour Purple (Alice Walker)

When: Wednesday, June 16thTime: 8pmWhere: Location and meet-up address on facebook event Dear book enthusiasts and feminists and fellow queers, On this collaborative event between the GFN and the GFN book club on the occasion of Pride Month, we will have an outdoor meeting in the Oosterpark (see map) with a small presentation on queer…

GFN Documentary Screening: Pinkwashing Exposed (2017)

🏳️‍🌈 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…

LGBTQ+ PRIDE MONTH SERIES – On Instagram Live

When: Every Sunday of Pride Month (June)Time: 8pmWhere: Instagram Live (@gfn_groningenfeministnetwork) Pride Month is not billion dollar corporations selling rainbow colored products to capitalize on the Queer community. Pride Month is not cops pretending to be our allies while still using their power to abuse (BIPOC) Queer people. Pride is not only celebrating the white,…

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LTAS Event – Let’s Talk About Relationships! – May 26th

When: Wednesday, May 26Time: 18:00Where: Google Meets Next Wednesday, the 26th of May, we will be diving into a conversation about relationships with a special twist. The twist you may ask? We’ll be talking (ethical) non-monogamy. So, if you’re polyamorous; if you’ve ever wondered why monogamy is the default; if you’ve been wanting to open…

GFN Weekly Meeting: The queer politics of body modification and presentation – May 19th

When: Wednesday, May 19Time: 20:00Where: Google Meets (Link posted on Facebook) This week’s meeting will focus on body modification and its intersections with queerness  Our host, Nana, will initiate the conversation with a short presentation touching topics such as consumerism and the politics of presentation, modification as tool for performing queerness and the ways in…

GFN Weekly Meeting: Labour Day – bread, roses and unions – April 28th

This week, we will be learning and discussing Labour Day: the international day of recognizing workers’ rights across the globe, on 1 May. First of all, Niccolò will give us a bit of background. Niccolò is a student and trade union activist. He was born in Sardinia and is currently based in Milan, Italy, where…

Protest Livestream – Groningen Tegen Racisme & Fascisme

Livestream will be available around 12:50 WHAT? NOISE-PROTEST AGAINST RACISM AND THE FAR-RIGHT WHEN? 21.03.2021, 13.00 WHERE? Grote Markt, Groningen FACE MASKS ARE MANDATORY. 2m SAFETY DISTANCE IS MANDATORY. As part of the International Day against Racism, we are calling all anti-racist groups and individuals in Groningen to come together and make noise in the…