On Saturday May 11, at 14:00 we are hosting the workshop The Amateur Feminist Library by Lara Dautun.

The amateur feminist library is a space for encounters, revision, and negotiation, where informal research and collective knowledge production strive to enable the making of critical feminist herstories.
Bringing into the physical world a digital archive of feminist periodicals from the 1970’s-1980’s, this workshop invites everyone to become an amateur feminist librarian. Reading, arranging, discussing, rearranging, editing, cutting, pasting and writing together, we’ll discover which resonances they can have today. What can they teach us about collective and collaborative ways of doing? About the emancipatory potentials of publishing practices? About love, labor, friendship, anger and the beauty of shaky drawings and hand-drawn lettering? About the way feminist thoughts and practices evolved? 

« The materials are books, yes, but they are also spaces of encounter; how we are touched by things; how we touch things. I think of feminism as a fragile archive, a body assembled from shattering, from splattering, an archive whose fragility gives us responsibility: to take care. » Sara Ahmed, Out and About on feministkilljoys, February 2017.

To register, please sign up by writing to register[at] page-not-found.nl. The workshop is free, however the number of participants is very limited!

This project is made possible thanks to the Makersregeling by the Gemeente Den Haag.