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

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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.

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We are The Office for Feminist Love Letters. We write love letters for futures of solidarity. We write them for you. For us. We are in need of political love. 

Our office celebrates feminist alternatives for exploitation and violence. Alternatives that were once, are made now or are imagined. Futures of solidarity. The office aims to create loving alternatives and is not here for biting critique. This is a writing practice, a network, a fungus, an improvisation and a collection of imaginations at once. It is about knowing our foremothers and taking care of children.

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This is a lover letter we wrote for Dublin women organizers. Bernie and others organize against mould in housing. The love letter was published in a zine that we made with a team on the issue of Mould in public housing: Mould Works (June 2025). You can find the zine here. We made the zine with Anushka Dasgupta, Luca Hopman, Job van Aken, Gresa Gashi, Noortje van Amsterdam, Josien Arts and Marguerite van den Berg. Below you will find the text of the love letter ^{lees volledige brief...}

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