FAC press is the micro-publishing project of the Feminist Autonomous Centre for research.
Publications are original works that are available as open access e-books and low cost paperbacks, published under a creative commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International). We are also interested in publishing translations (from and into various languages) particularly by authors from the global south and periphery.
Call for Proposals.
In 2022, FAC press launched the Feminist Praxis series. For this series, we invite proposals for original, unpublished manuscripts (in English, normally ≤ 50,000 words), on a rolling basis, whose themes and problematics converge with one or more of FAC’s research areas (listed below) and synthesise theory with practice, poetry with theory, action with reflection.
Research areas:
✹ Sexualities and Genders: Queer and Transfeminist Perspectives;
✹ Intersectionality, Abolition, and Transformative Justice;
✹ Feminist No Borders Struggles;
✹ Art as Research: Visual, Sonic, Documentary, and Performative Practices;
✹ Space: Radical Perspectives on Urban Space and Design;
✹ Bodies In Movements: Embodied Knowledges, Collective Care, and Healing Practices.
In this series:
Bodies That Mutter: Poetic Autoethnography and Digital Textuality, Anna Apostolidou (2022)
Transfeminist International! Marquis Bey, Jules Joanne Gleeson, Elle O’Rourke, Trish Salah & McKenzie Wark Edited by Anna Carastathis & Myrto Tsilimpounidi (2023)
Forthcoming:
Δiotima, or, Δeir*land: A fragmented stori of arkivs, kolektivism, imagina∫on, & multituds, Anna T. (2024)
Read the Call for Proposals and the Authors’ Guidelines.
Note: A call for proposals to a second series, titled Φεμινιστικές Έννοιες / Feminist Concepts (in Greek), will be launched in 2024–2025.
NEW PUBLICATIONs
45 boxes
45 boxes is Anna Apostolidou’s second mid-life poetry collection. It includes 45 poems about significant moments of her life. Each poem represents a box (of meaning, of memories, relationships, desires) that she has come to carry as she grows older. She completed the book the year she turned 45.
Author: Anna Apostolidou
Format: open access e-book and print edition, 61 pages
Language: English
Publication date: 1 September 2024
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
ISBN: 978–618–85834–7–4
transfeminist international!
Transfeminist International! examines the relationships between the multiple, intersecting crises of neoliberal capitalism; the global rise of fascism and white supremacy; and ‘anti-gender’ mobilisations, including self-proclaimed ‘feminist’ politics antagonistic to trans existence. Five luminaries of transgender theory—Marquis Bey, Jules Joanne Gleeson, Elle O’ Rourke, Trish Salah, and McKenzie Wark—discuss political resistance against organised transphobia, its institutionalisation, normalisation, and violent expression across political spectra, geographies, and sociocultural contexts. Transfeminist International! is a call for an insurgent, intersectional, abolitionist transfeminism.
Contributors: Marquis Bey, Jules Joanne Gleeson, Elle O’Rourke, Trish Salah, McKenzie Wark
Editors: Anna Carastathis, Myrto Tsilimpounidi
Translators: Anna Carastathis, Marleno Nika, Myrto Tsilimpounidi
Series: Feminist Praxis
Format: open access e-book and print edition, 147 pages
Language: English original with Greek translation
Publication date: 1 October 2023
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
ISBN: 978-618-85834-6-7
Bodies that mutter: Poetic autoethnography and digital textuality
Anna Apostolidou
Bodies That Mutter: Poetic autoethnography and digital textuality defines the emergent genre of poetic autoethnography. A fragile, multilayered narrative records a period of eleven years, in the course of which the author has undergone various transitions.
Author: Anna Apostolidou
Series: Feminist Praxis
Format: open access e-book and print edition, 167 pages
Language: English
Publication date: 22 December 2022
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
ISBN: 978-618-85834-5-0
COMe, Let me Tell you:
Feminist, Lesbian, and Queer Narratives of the post-dictatorship period
A collective volume comprising feminist, lesbian, and queer narratives of the post-dictatorship period (1974-), following the fall of the junta (1967-1974). Reading excerpts of oral histories, we learn how eight individuals, lesbians, bisexual and straight women and queer people experienced the post-dictatorship period, through their participation in feminist, workers’ and anti-authoritarian movements. Although the social effects of the reconstruction of democracy were significant, the limits (and, indeed, the 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 by participants 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. Taken together, the eight narratives suggest the need and desire for histories written from below, which reflect the multiplicity, complexity, and even contradictory nature of lived experience, even in the context of a single life, in the time-space of a singular body.
Editors: Anna Carastathis and Bessy Polykarpou
Contributors: Evina Alata, Phaedra Vokali, Anna Carastathis, Stella Andrada Kasdovasili, Mairi Logotheti, Mairi Michailidou, Bessy Polykarpou, Katerina Stavridi, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Evangelia Chordaki
Narrators: A., Antouanetta Angelidi, Angelique Kourounis, Litsa, M., Anna Michopoulou, S., F.
Copyeditors: Fani Tsioubekou, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Bessy Polykarpou
Format: open access e-book and print edition, 106 pages
Language: Greek
Publication date: 21 December 2021
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
ISBN: 978-618-85834-0-5
FAC press is supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Office in Greece.