Feminist collectives are taking to the shelves of a reading space. Come browse with us!
17:00 - 23:00
from books and magazines to catalogs and zines - the publications are brought to you by feminist collectives from Brussels:
Bicoli Collective is a self-run feminist communal library based in Ixelles.
Bye Bye Binary is a collective, a pedagogical experiment, a community, a variable typo·graphic creation workshop, a network, an alliance, working on gender-fluid and inclusive typography.
http://genderfluid.space/
Mophradat creates opportunities for artists from the Arab world through an inventive approach to funding, commissioning, collaborating, and gathering.
Fatsabbats creates spaces by and for LGBTQIA+, queers, women of color and their allies: cultural, social and care.
FAME festival is a new, multidisciplinary performing arts festival that seeks to encourage the discovery of new imaginary worlds that are more inclusive and more equal.
Psst Mlle is an intersectional feminist platform deconstructing the dance floor, standing up for representation and inclusion. They host a reading session in the kiosk on Tuesday the 4th of October from 18:00 to 19:30.
Lagrange Points promotes and celebrates the diversity of Arab culture's creativity and innovation, in Brussels, the Arab world and beyond. Through its network, dynamic team, and open programs, Lagrange Points brings new and unexpected voices alongside established artists, writers, activists, and researchers, connecting audiences and communities with works of contemporary visual arts, film, music, theatre, dance, literature and debates.
some online publications
Grimoire Fanzine is a Tunisian digital macabre fanzine. A disturbing, provocative content, between reality and fiction, between the visible and the invisible.
Kohl Journal, a journal for Body and Gender Research, is a progressive, feminist journal on gender and sexuality in South West Asia and North Africa regions.
858. An archive of resistance is a unique collection featuring hundreds of hours of footage shot and collected in Egypt around the revolution now made available to the public.
Mophradat’s online library publishes essays and thought pieces that are concerned with language, poetics, and feelings, some whimsical, some theoretical, and more.
The Funambulist is a platform that engages with the politics of space and bodies. It’s hope is to provide a useful platform where activist/academic/practitioner voices can meet and build solidarities across geographical scales.
the list of books & zines
Some texts proposed by Bye Bye Binary
Enough is Enough by Les Mots de Trop
La typographie comme technologie du post-binarisme politique by Camille°Circlude
Master’s Tools (Designing As Othering), Monster’s Tools (Designing As Bothering) by Ece Canli from the book Glossary of Undisciplined Design
Excerpts from Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
The selection of Bicoli
> All publications in this list can be found in their library! Check out their instagram page for more information.
La Révolution captive by Nahla Abdo
Féminismes Islamiques by Zahra Ali
La couleur de l'adoption by Manuelle Alix-Surprenant & Renaud Vinet-Houle
Rencontres radicales by Manal Al Tamimi, Tal Dor & Nacira Guénif-Souilamas
1492: Anacaona L'insurgée des Caraïbes by Paula Anacaona
Bisexualidades feministas by Laura Arnes, Malena Correa & more
Balance ton corps by Bertoulle Beaurebec
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Nos existences handies by Zig Blanquer
L'adoption internationale, mythes et réalités by Joohee Bourgain
Queer + Trans Voices by Julia Feliz Brueck
Veganism of Color by Julia Feliz Brueck
Liens de sang by Octavia E. Butler
La Parabole du semeur by Octavia E. Butler
Afrotrans by Collectif Cases Rebelles
Le feu qui craque - PanAfroRévolutionnaires by Collectif Cases Rebelles
Censored Magazine n°2: Desiderare
Censored Magazine n°5: Archive intime et politique
A Pink Story by Kate Charlesworth
Les filles voilées parlent by Ismahane Chouder, Malika Latrèche & Pierre Tevanian
Matérialismes Trans by Pauline Clochec & Noémie Grunenwald
La pensée féministe noire by Patricia H. Collins
Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement by Charlotte Cooper
To My Trans Sisters by Charlie Craggs
Une autobiographie transsexuelle (avec des vampires) by Lizzie Crowdagger
Décolonisons les arts! by Leïla Cukierman, Gerty Dambury & Françoise Vergès
Depuis que tu n'a pas tiré by Marie Darah
Survivre au taf by Marie Dasylva
Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement by Assia Djebar
Feu! Abécédaire des féminismes présents by Elsa Dorlin
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Les féministes blanches et l'empire by Félix Boggio Ewanjé-Epée & Stella Magliani-Belkacem
Le regard cis reflété au cinéma by Charlie Fabre
Princesa by Fernanda Farias De Albuquerque
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics by Lynn Fujiwara & Shireen Roshanravan
P. Mon adolescence trans by Fumettibrutti
I Will Not Be Erased by gal-dem
Une poupée en chocolat by Amandine Gay
Traquée, la cavale d'Angela Davis by Nicolas Pitz & Fabien Grolleau
La revolución (a)sexual by Celia Gutiérrez
Reclaim by Emilie Hache
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
Journal intime d'une féministe (noire) by Axelle Jah Njiké
This Arab is Queer by Elias Jahshan
Crip Kinship by Shayda Kafai
Le soleil et ses fleurs by Rupi Kaur
Comment devenir antiraciste by Ibram X. Kendi
Growing Older as a Trans and/or Non-Binary Person by Jennie Kermode
À nos humanités révoltées by Kiyémis
Aphro-ism by Aph Ko & Syl Ko
Genre et féminismes au moyen-orient et au maghreb by Abir Kréfa & Amélie Le Renard
Le goût de la nectarine by Lee Lai
Pour l'intersectionnalité by Eléonore Lepinard & Sarah Mazouz
Une histoire de genres by Lexie
Females by Andrea Long Chu
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Art queer by Renate Lorenz
Jeune fille modèle by Grace Ly
Le guide de poche des identités queer & trans by Mady G & J. R. Zuckerberg
Continuum by Chella Man
Pour un temps sois peu/Transe by Laurène Marx
Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication by meenadchi
Volcaniques : Une anthologie du plaisir by Léonora Miano
Les garçons trans, mauvais sujets du féminisme? by Friedrich Morinom
Blood feast by Malika Moustadraf
Mwasi Afrofem by Mwasi
Le transféminisme by Leticia Nascimento
"Serhildan": le soulèvement au Kurdistan by Collectif Ne var ne yok
Et maintenant le pouvoir by Fania Noel
Afro-communautaire, appartenir à nous-mêmes by Fania Noel-Thomassaint
Aux vies anecdotiques by Karima Ouaghenim
La puissance des mères by Fatima Ouassak
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
PD La Revue n°1bis, n°3, n°4
A Comprehensive Guide to Intersex by Jay Kyle Petersen
Fiévreuse plébéienne by Elodie Petit
Anthologie Douteuses by Elodie Petit & Marguerin Le Louvrier
Working Feminism by Geraldine Pratt
Jeune trans et non binaires by Denise Medico et Annie Pullen Sansfaçon
Otras Flores by Xavi Reyes
Hétéro, l'école? by Gabrielle Richard
Sugako Kanno, les derniers mots d'une intrépide by Aurélien Roulland
A Better World Starts Here by Stacy Russo
Féminismes africains by Rama Salla Dieng
Caillasses by Joëlle Sambi
Les luttes des putes by Thierry Schaffauser
Manifeste d'une femme trans et autres textes by Julia Serano
Whipping Girl by Julia Serano
Ceux qui sont morts ne sont jamais partis by Bonaventure Soh Bejend Ndikung
Ecoute la ville tomber by Kate Tempest
The Big Idea: Is Gender Fluid ? by Sally Hines
Revue The Eyes#11: Transgalactique
I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom
On n'a que deux vies by Adel Tincelin
A Self-Defense Study Guide for Trans Women by TransFighters
La nuit t'arrache à moi by Nanténé Traoré
Et ne suis-je pas une femme? by Sojourner Truth
Un verano kurdo by Zekine Turkeri
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
De la violence coloniale dans l'espace public by Françoise Vergès & Seumboy Vrainom
Aller la rivière by Luz Volckmann
Les chants du placard by Luz Volckmann
Handi-gang by Cara Zina
& some books for children from Bicoli
Le choix de Koki by Classe gagnante du concours Lire Égaux 2018 & Félix Rousseau
Frisettes en fête by bell hooks & Chris Raschka
L'amoureuse de Simone by Elsa Kedadouche & Amélie-Anne Calmo
Comme un million de papillons noirs by Laura Nsafou & Barbara Brun
Le chemin de Jada by Laura Nsafou & Barbara Brun
La demeure du ciel by Laura Nsafou & Olga Guillaud
Je m'appelle Julie by Laurie The Fox & Caroline Fournier
Ma maman est bizarre by Camille Victorine & Anna Wanda Gogusey
The selection of Psst Mlle
Paye ta shnek by Anais Bourdet
Ne suis-je pas une femme by bell hooks
Joie militante by Carla Bergman & Nick Montgomery
Françoise d'Eaubonne et l'écoféminisme by Caroline Goldblum
Sorcières by Mona Chollet
Sorcières, pourchassées, assumées, puissantes, queer by Anna Colin
Le deuxième sexe, I by Simone de Beauvoir
Le féminisme ou la mort by Françoise d’Eaubonne
Lune Rouge by Miranda Gray
Reclaim by Emilie Hache
La Sorcière by Jules Michelet
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Not That Bad by Roxane Gay
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
La gentrification des esprits by Sarah Schulman
Les grandes oubliées by Titiou Lecoq
Viendra le temps du feu Wendy Delorme
The selection of Mophradat
> Some of these publications are available for free on their website, others can be bought there.
How to Disappear? by Haytham El-Wardany (in English & Arabic)
These are the tools of the present edited by Mai Abu ElDahab, November Paynter, Marnie Slater
How to Know What’s Really Happening by Francis McKee (in English & Arabic)
How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts by Iman Mersal
Read the Room #1 by Suneela Mubayi
Read the Room #2 Transnationals: Who are they and what do they want? by Nadia Cherif
Why Call It Labor? On Motherhood and Art Work edited by Mai Abu ElDahab
The selection of FAME Festival
Squatters handbook (14th edition) by Advisory Service for Squatters
Anthologie des femmes poètes du monde arabe by Maram al-Masri
Grammaire du français inclusif by Alpheratz
Eloge des vagabondes by Gilles Clément
Le génie lesbien by Alice Coffin
Le silence même n’est plus à toi by Asli Erdogan
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Co-naître by Aliette Griz
Plier L’hier by Aliette Griz & Flise
Vivre avec nos morts by Delphine Horvilleur
Les grands cerfs by Claudie Hunzinger
Lexicon Pamphlet Series: Anarchism by Institute for Anarchist Studies
Lexicon Pamphlet Series: Power by Institute for Anarchist Studies
Lexicon Pamphlet Series: Colonialism by Institute for Anarchist Studies
Lexicon Pamphlet Series: White Supremacy by Institute for Anarchist Studies
Lexicon Pamphlet Series: Gender by Institute for Anarchist Studies
Bagarre érotique by Klou
Rupture(s) by Claire Marin
Plutôt couler en beauté que flotter sans grâce by Corinne Morel Darleux
Comment devenir lesbienne en dix étapes by Louise Morel
Playing Monogamy by Simon(e) van Saarloos
Une théorie féministe de la violence by Françoise Vergès
La pensée straight by Monique Wittig
The selection of Fatsabbats
Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
Holding Change by Adrienne Maree Brown
Pussy Prayers by Black Girl Bliss
Connais-toi toi-même by Clarence Edgard-Sosa
Mutual Aid by Dean Spade
Beyond survival edited by Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Love's Not Color Blind by Kevin A. Patterson
Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Dirty River by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Being Biracial by Sarah Ratliff & Bryony Sutherland
The Sex Agenda: Issue 1
Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives edited by Tiff Joshua Tj Ferentini, Miguel M. Morales & Bruce Owens Grimm
The selection of Lagrange Points
Poussière Rouge by Ines Touijar
Antoine Chapitre 1-5 by Mazen Kerbaj
Sqout Al Imam by Nawal Saadawi
Mothakarat Tifla by Nawal Saadawi
Harz Mokamkam by Ahmad Naji
Jdeed Magazine n°8
Samandal 3000 by Samandal
Salam by Lena Mehrej
Experimentation by Samandal
50 artistes de caricature et de bande dessinée arabes by multiple authors
Daftar Farho by Laila Abdallah
Al Carnaval by Khalida Hamed
You Have Not Been Defeated by Alaa Abd ElFatah
Smashing It by multiple authors
And So We Drive On by Marina Chamma
Midnight in Cairo by Raphael Cormack
Habibi by Wim Peumans
Madina Mojawera Lil Ard by Dar Onboz
Qalb Al Madina by Dar Onboz
Gabsh Al Maraya by Khalida Hamed
Qaidat Al Khawf by Daleer Youssef
Hawamsh Thaqafiya by Saad Allah Wannous
Alharaka Alnisaiya by Tayseer Khalaf
Yawm Min Zamanna by Saad Allah Wannous
Yafa by Nibal Qndos
reading sessions
with Dima Issa Daibes from Lagrange Points on Saturday 01.10 from 15:00 to 17:00
with Psst Mlle on Tuesday 04.10 from 18:00 to 19:30
with Tessel Veneboer on Kathy Acker on Saturday 8.10 from 15:00 to 17:00
