This is
the Office for Feminist Love Letters.
An office we can say ‘yes’ to. The Office celebrates feminist alternatives to exploitation and violence. Alternatives that have been, are made or imagined. Futures of solidarity. The office acts out of love and moves beyond mere critique.
It is a writing practice, a network, a fungus, an improvisation. It is about knowing our foremothers and caring for children. The office is committed to imagination, intellectual work and praxis. It is light-hearted and dead-serious at the same time.
Welcome!
Only by becoming disloyal to this world am I able to remain alive and human. Zakia Essanhaji wrote a love letter to those that try to remain alive, hopeful and human in a world that insists on death, destruction and dehumanization.
Feminists have had to confront sexual violence head-on. With courage and pugnacity, they politicised individual tragedies and turned them into a collective experience to be reckoned with. Massilia Ourabah expresses her feminist gratitude, and asks men: We did Me Too, how about Your Turn?
Noortje van Amsterdam paints the sky from her home. She is looking for crip solidarity: "My wish is for us (yes, together!) to reach for the sky in order to build networks where we can rehearse crip solidarity as a reformulation of our relationships with our workplaces, our own bodies, and those of others."
Feminists have written extensively about mothers and motherhood. But how do we relate critically and lovingly to our feminist (fore)mothers? Irene van Oorschot searches for answers in her deceased mother's library