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!
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
We live on poisoned land, in bodies filled with plastics and chemicals such as PFAS. How can we live and find love and solidarity amidst these ruins? In this Autumn Issue, Luca Hopman and Marguerite van den Berg aim to learn from foremothers and contemporary heroines and set out to find the courage to protect each other.