feminist autonomous centre for research
WHAT THE FAC?
The Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research (FAC research) 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 about our vision, meet our team, and join us.
projects
Community Courses
Abolition Feminisms
4 Oct. to 6 Dec. 2022
Open Call for Participants
Closes: 27 September 2022
Read the CfP
BRIDGES
Building Inclusive Societies
The project ended in July 2022
Read the book (EN)
Διαβάστε το βιβλίο (ΕΛ)
Feminist Library
Donate a book you wrote or a book you love,
or bring one into the world with FAC press
Library opens in Fall 2022
Summer School
Feminist No Borders Summer School
15-18 June 2022
111 participants in 4 nodes
Report (coming soon)
TRANSFEMINIST INTERNATIONAL!
a virtual discussion: Thursday 5 may 2022
7:00-9:00 pm AThens time, UTC+3
How can we create a transfeminist international? What are the relationships between the multiple, intersecting crises of capitalism, the global rise of fascism, and the emboldening of TERF discourses? At this conjuncture, what forms of resistance does transfeminism open up against transphobia, its institutionalisation, normalisation, and violent expression, as it manifests across political spectra and in a range of political formations? What is intersectional/Black transfeminism? What is the genealogy, the value/significance, and the future of the transfeminist movement?
Please register by following this link: Transfeminist International!
With: Marquis Bey, author of Black Trans Feminism; Jules Joanne Gleeson, co-editor of Transgender Marxism; Elle O’Rourke, co-editor of Transgender Marxism; Trish Salah, author of Wanting in Arabic: Poems and Lyric Sexology Vol. 1; McKenzie Wark, author of Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?
new publication
Come, let me tell you:Â Feminist, lesbian, and Queer narratives of the post-dictatorship period
This collective volume (in Greek) comprises eight feminist, lesbian, and queer narratives of the post-dictatorship period (1974-), following the fall of the junta (1967-1974) in Greece. Whilst the social effects of the restoration of democracy are undeniable, the limits (and borders) of democracy, its inclusiveness and its consensual, representative legitimacy remains a continuous struggle into the present day (or perhaps especially so in the present). Based on oral histories conducted in the community course “Let’s Talk About ‘Sex’, Baby”: Histories and Theories of Genders and Sexualities (2019-2020), the volume contributes to tracing an alternative history of the post-dictatorship era, which dominant histories render unheard. You can download the open access ebook in PDF or EPUB formats now, and/or obtain a print copy
why we Fight
Sharing the stories of how we came to be involved in the fight against gender-based violence
Because heteropatriarchy makes gendered violence ubiquitous, normalised, and even banal, the struggle to end gendered violence is a daily one and, at times, can seem endless. Still, we fight, and we fight to win!
By collecting anonymised personal stories, the website whywefight.gr and social media campaign will offer a forum for reflecting on how we came to be involved in this collective struggle. Beyond raising awareness of the urgency to join the struggle against gendered violence, Why We Fight aims to empower us to persist in our resistance. Tell us your story.
years in review
How to sum up the two years that have passed? The ‘year’ we review here is not a calendar year, nor is it an academic year. It represents a period lived, paradoxically, both as compressed and as expansive time, a time of existential threat posed not only by the pandemic but by its ‘management’ by states, and its exploitation by capital. This narrative report has undergone many versions, revisions, and postponements, as we felt uncomfortable simply reporting, let alone celebrating, ‘what we’ve accomplished’ in a time of global pandemic. As we close this cycle, and FAC enters its third academic year, it’s hard to articulate how beautiful, and how difficult, this journey has been. Throughout, what has kept us going is, in a word: you. We present the Year(s) in Review 2019-2020/2020-2021 [PDF], now, to you, our community and members with gratitude, humility, and hope.
