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The Feminist Autonomous Centre for research (FAC) is a space for learning,
reflection,
collaboration,
support,
exchange,
knowledge production, political interventions,
and trouble-making.

Working across and against nation-state and continental borders, disciplinary boundaries, and institutional barriers, we return to the feminist roots of autonomous knowledge production, challenging what counts as legitimate knowledge and who is granted the right to produce and receive it.

Our feminisms are
queer,
trans,
intersectional,
antiracist,
anti-authoritarian,
always in plural, reflexive, and internally contested.

Read more.

Our research agenda is organised around six areas:

Sexualities and Genders: Queer and Transfeminist Perspectives.

Intersectionality, Abolition, and Transformative Justice.

Feminist No Borders Struggles.

Art as Research: Visual, Performative, and Documentary Knowledges.

Space: Radical Perspectives on Urban Space and Design.

Bodies In Movements: Embodied Knowledges, Collective Care, and Healing Practices.

Our current projects include:

Community Courses

Lesbian* Feminisms with Myrto Tsil, Spring 2025.

Call for participants coming soon.

Summer School

The sixth annual Feminist No Borders Summer School took place 14-18 June 2023 in six cities.

Read and sign our statement: "Abolishing Borders, Ending Violence, Transforming Justice."

Feminist Library

The Feminist Library is now open to the public. Contact us to make an appointment to visit.

With the support of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

FAC press

Our open access feminist micro-publishing project.

Read our latest book: 45 boxes by Anna Apostolidou in PDF or EPUB

With the support of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation​

resist

RESIST: Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics, a four-year research project that focuses on experiences of, and practices of resistance to 'anti-gender' politics.

Read our results
from the first and second stages of the research.

Funded by the European Union (Horizon Europe) and the Swiss and UK governments

Criminalisation of facilitation

A research and intervention project, which examines how people on the move, their self-organisation, and people in solidarity with them are criminalised by European states. We facilitated an online course in Spring 2023.

Read the syllabus.
Listen to the Podcast.

With the support of the University of Brighton IGNITE Community-University Partnership funding

COVID BORDERS

A collaborative research project with Legal Centre Lesvos on how the COVID–19 pandemic has been used as a pretext for intensified bordering.

Read our report, A Pandemic of Abuses: How Greece dismantled the right to asylum and normalised the violation of migrants’ rights throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in Lesvos.

With support from ESRC-funded GLITCH project

ANAMESA/
ndërmjet/
in between

An oral history project with Albanian immigrants living in Greece, in collaboration with MiQ.

Supported by The Europe Challenge

FAC research is a labour of love six years in the making.

We want to find collective solutions to problems and burdens that, under capitalism, we bear individually:
unemployment,
exploitation,
harassment,
violence, and
social exclusion.

We want to practice what we have trained to do, and what we love doing, but there is no other possibility open to us.

We want to undertake research that breaks with hegemonic narratives, methodologies, and boundaries.

We’re tired of antagonism, nepotism, authoritarianism, and paternalism as the taken-for-granted atmosphere of teaching and learning in the education system.

We want to combat interlocking oppressions and systemic barriers based on legal status, racialisation, language, gender identity and expression, sexuality, ability, and class.

We want to know what avenues for social change are opened up when we legitimise knowledge from below that goes unrecognised, undocumented, and disvalued…

If this resonates with you, join us!

Agiou Panteleimonos 7B
104 46 Athens Greece
+30 211 013  6451

*open by appointment  Wednesdays  5-8 p.m.

Before visiting, please read the COVID-19 guidelines and  code of contact

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The Feminist Autonomous Centre for research is a registered urban non-profit organisation (tax registration no. 996857778).