The Feminist Lecture Program

Booking your Summer vacay, or making hot plans for the warmer weather? Make sure you’re factoring in spending 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 Monday with us here at The Feminist Lecture Program because our kick-ass Summer Term is HERE! ☀️ Whilst we’ve been wrapping up a stellar Spring term, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to bring you even MORE up-to-date, never-before-seen, eye-catching lectures that take us from the pages of schoolgirl novels, to the mysticism of birthcharts; stretching from Palestine to online. We’re hitting every bit of feminist theory and then some! 💞 The first half of this term is already online and ready to be booked. Grab your PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN tickets via the link in our bio to join us live, or to catch up with the recording 📼 p.s. We’d like to take a second to remind you that we’re an unfunded initiative - yes, all your ticket sales go directly to paying our incredible lecturers and our team of two working behind the scenes. Keep thinking of us when you donate or share us with your family, friends, lovers, enemies... Spread the word and make FLP a global affair 🌍 • A Cultural History of the Schoolgirl: From Jane Eyre to St Trinians Monday 20th April 18:30 (UK time) with Atlanta Tsiaoukkas... @aatlanta_aa Gendered Environmentalities: Nature, Culture and Womanhood - RECORDING ONLY RECORDING ONLY - available immediately till Monday 4th May with Nina Pennick... @ninapaivaa “What’s Your Sign?”: An Anticolonial Exploration of the Connections between Astrology and Gender Monday 4th May 18:30 (UK time) with Amaryllis Ara... @lis.rising From Sextortion to Cyberstalking: Understanding Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence Monday 11th May 18:30 (UK time) with Leisha Beardmore... Blood Sisters: A Cultural History of Menstruation Monday 18th May 18:30 (UK time) with Luisa-Maria MacCormack… @luisamariamfineart Leonor Fini: Sartorial Sorceress - RECORDING ONLY RECORDING ONLY - available immediately till Monday 1st June with Dr. Sabina Stent... @sabinastent Fashion’s Feminist Lie: The Gendered Cost Of Super Fast Fashion Monday 1st June 18:30 (UK time) with Dr. Ophelia Chidgey... @ophelialaine

OK followers, we’ve introduced ourselves enough over the past 5 years… now spill! 👀💬 What feminist ideas are you obsessed with right now? Working on research? Launching a project? Hyping up a friend’s work? Or just want to introduce yourself as an avid fan of our Gender Studies program? Share everything in the comments below so we can connect, celebrate, and build the most vibrant feminist ecosystem on the internet🌱✨ • @luisamariamfineart @becca.douglass • #feminism #feminist #genderstudies #art #arthistory #feministtheory #onlineclass #onlinelecture #genderstudiesclass #GlobalFeminism #whattodo #events #onlineevents #activist

Join the Feminist Lecture Program this Monday evening (UK time) on Zoom for Blood Sisters — a lecture by Luisa Maria MacCormack exploring the strange, dark, fascinating history of menstrual taboos across the world. Pay what you can tickets available via our Eventbrite or Outsavvy! From the medieval Japanese Blood Bowl Sutra to menstruating goddesses in India, from ancient beliefs that periods could stop thunderstorms to Victorian scientists trying to prove menstruating women could kill plants — this lecture explores how one completely ordinary biological process became one of the most symbolically charged things in human history. We’ll be looking at:🩸 pollution and purity🩸 sacred blood and ritual power🩸 moon symbolism and goddess worship🩸 menstrual seclusion practices🩸 religion, mythology, anthropology and folklore If you can’t make it live, a recording option is always available. Hosted by the Feminist Lecture Program Lecturer: Luisa Maria McCormack / Luisa Maria Fine Art #feministlectureprogramme #feminism #anthropology #mythology history womenshistory folklore religion sacredfeminine goddess lecture zoomlecture onlinelecture periods menstruation culturalhistory arthistory witches occulthistory symbolism

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Turns out the future of digital justice is already being built by young people ✨ If you attended this lecture on technology-facilitated gender-based violence and youth-led resistance across the Global Majority, then you already know how powerful these conversations are - and now it’s time to dive into the reading list. From feminist digital safety networks to youth-led accountability practices, these texts explore what it means to build technologies, communities, and futures rooted in care, justice, and collective liberation. Huge thanks to our lecturer for curating such an urgent and transformative selection that will keep us questioning systems, reimagining safety, and following young people’s lead while we do it ♀️ • READING LIST 🤳 Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde 🤳 A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective, Françoise Vergès 🤳 Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, Laura Bates 🤳 Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, Linda Tuhiwai Smith • #activist #readinglist #whattoread #books #bookrecommendation #read #library #feministtheory #genderstudies #feminism #feminist #art #arthistory #booklist

Have you booked your ticket for TONIGHT yet? 👁️‍🗨️⏰ Last-minute spots are still available for our lecture with the brilliant Leisha Beardmore, exploring everything from deepfakes to cyberbullying and how young people across the Global Majority are reinventing digital safety, accountability, and care online. From youth-led anti-violence tools in Pakistan to feminist and Queer community safety networks across the Asia-Pacific, this lecture asks what happens when the people most affected start leading the conversation - and the solutions. Your evening scroll session will still be there afterwards. This is more interesting 🫶 • From Deepfakes to Cyberbullying: Understanding Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence Monday 11th May, 18:30 (BST) or via a recording! Book your PAY WHAT YOU CAN ticket via the link in our bio 🥳 • @luisamariamfineart @becca.douglass • #feminism #feminist #genderstudies #feministtheory #activist

📣 TODAY📣 It's your last chance to grab a ticket for today's lecture 'From Deepfakes to Cyberbullying: Understanding Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence' ☝️ join us live, or grab a recording only ticket to catch up in the next two weeks! We're joined by the amazing Leisha Beardmore (they/them), feminist researcher, practitioner, and community leader whose work bridges global mental health, trauma recovery, and human rights. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia Universities, they are currently a Research Fellow at Stanford University, jointly with the School of Medicine and the Law School, where their research examines technology-facilitated gender-based violence and survivor-centred systems of care. For more than fifteen years, Leisha has led protection and gender-justice programmes across humanitarian and conflict-affected settings, including senior advisory roles with Amnesty International, the International Rescue Committee, UNFPA, and UNICEF. Their work foregrounds trans, queer, disabled, refugee, and Global Majority survivors’ experiences, advocating for decolonial, intersectional, and trauma-informed approaches to feminist practice and research.They are also the founder of Cadre, a Netherlands-based non-profit, and Art House Collective centring survivors and communities as agents of healing, resistance, and creative transformation. Leisha lectures and publishes internationally on feminist praxis, trauma, and justice, reimagining care through solidarity, creativity, and collective liberation. • From Deepfakes to Cyberbullying: Understanding Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence Monday 11th May, 18:30 (BST) or via a recording! Book your PAY WHAT YOU CAN ticket via the link in our bio 🥳 • @luisamariamfineart @becca.douglass • #feminism #feminist #genderstudies #art #arthistory #feministtheory #onlineclass #onlinelecture #genderstudiesclass #GlobalFeminism #whattodo #events #onlineevents #activist

Just a friendly handful of jaw-dropping, fem adjacent, upcoming events that you might find us at this coming month 👀 As always, our DM's are open for suggestions and shout-outs - send us your event poster and we'll share it with our incredible feminist network! • #whattodo #events #feminism #feminist #genderstudies #activist

For many young people, violence does not begin or end on the screen. It moves through the same hierarchies that shape the world, of gender, age, class, sexuality, and race, and is written into the technologies they use every day. Next Monday we're joined by the wonder Leisha Beardmore who will be investigating how young people from the Global Majority are reinventing digital safety, confronting tech-facilitated gender violence... In their lecture 'From Deepfakes to Cyberbullying: Understanding Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence', Leisha will be bringing together research across nine countries Global Majority settings on how TFGBV is impacting young people from 13-25. Young people are already reshaping what safety, justice, and accountability can look like. In Pakistan, a youth-led organisation builds peer-to-peer tools to prevent online violence. In Nepal and the Philippines, adolescents lead digital rights workshops that reach their schools before policies do. Across the Asia-Pacific, feminist and Queer networks create community safety systems and are innovating the future of the technology sector. Their work shows what can be done when it is built with and for those most affected. We're already being shown what accountability and care can look like. The task now is to follow their lead 👁️‍🗨️ • From Deepfakes to Cyberbullying: Understanding Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence Monday 11th May, 18:30 (BST) or via a recording! Book your PAY WHAT YOU CAN ticket via the link in our bio 🥳 • @luisamariamfineart @becca.douglass • #feminism #feminist #genderstudies #art #arthistory #feministtheory #onlineclass #onlinelecture #genderstudiesclass #GlobalFeminism #whattodo #events #onlineevents #activist

Mercury might not be in retrograde but our reading list is definitely in revolution ✨ If you LOVED Amaryllis's lecture '"What's Your Sign?": An Anticolonial Exploration of the Connections between Astrology and Gender', then you're going to love their reading list! Thanks to Amaryllis for sharing such an incredible selection that will keep us decolonizing the cosmos, dismantling the patriarchy, and checking our charts while we're at it ♀️ • If you missed last night’s lecture, DON’T PANIC! The session was recorded and will be uploaded onto The FLP Archive next Monday - head to the link in our bio and keep a look out for this lecture, ready to rent and watch ON DEMAND! • READING LIST 💫 Postcolonial Astrology - Alice Sparkly Kat 💫 The Stars and the Blackness Between Them - Junauda Petrus 💫 Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred - M. Jacqui Alexander (specifically the essay Pedagogies of the Sacred) 💫 Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds - Adrienne Maree Brown 💫 A Deep Dive Into West African Astrology - Ehime Ora • @lis.rising @luisamariamfineart @becca.douglass • #activist #readinglist #whattoread #books #bookrecommendation #read #library #feministtheory #genderstudies #feminism #feminist #art #arthistory #booklist #queerastrology #decolonizeastrology #astrologyforall #mythandmeaning #somaticwisdom

BTS in @bev.duckworth studio! It’s always a rare and wonderful treat to be able to see someones studio- they’re such personal places and seeing works in varying degrees of completion allows a peek behind the curtain into a world of processes and thought patterns! Our director and co host for tomorrow evenings talk @luisamariamfineart got the wonderful opportunity to chat with Beverley and @sarahlqs (our other wonderful co host)! about what’s going on in Beverley’s work right now in the run up to the talk! Here’s a little sneak preview ❤️ Tickets for this online talk are pay what you can and available to book now via the link in @thefeministlectureprogram bio OR through Eventbrite and Outsavvy! There’s also a recording only option so if you’re not free tomorrow evening, you can grab a ticket now and enjoy 7 days of recording access! Talk takes place via zoom ❤️

We are SO excited for tomorrows lecture with Amaryllis Ara! We’re going to be exploring the many and little known feminist and colonial histories of ASTROLOGY- so grab your notebooks gang and grab your pay what you can tickets and let’s get EDUCATED 😎✨⭐️💫🌟 Hosted by @luisamariamfineart On @thefeministlectureprogram Tickets via Outsavvy and Eventbrite! Link in bio