This is
The Office for Feminist Love Letters.
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!
On this website you will find our feminist love letters. You can subscribe to our newsletter here. If you do, you’ll find a feminist love letter in your inbox every season and one extra in Winter, when we can all use a little extra love. Feminist love in your inbox five times a year! The website will contain more love, more love letters than we will send in the newsletters, so do watch this space too!
Marguerite van den Berg discovered in the Spring of 2024 that she had always been writing feminist love letters – as books, as articles, as essays. Her recent book ‘Kwetsbaar – politieke mogelijkheden’ (Mazirel Pers, 2025) is a love letter for solidarity and an exchange with other feminists and sources of inspiration. She works as a researcher and teacher at Utrecht University.
Noortje van Amsterdam is fed up with the individualization in neoliberal society. She wants to connect and build a repertoire to rehearse solidarity. Together. Feminist love letters seem to her a great way of doing this. In her research and teaching at Utrecht University she takes inspiration from art forms such as poetry, storytelling, photography and theatre, to make room for affective resonance.
Irene van Oorschot craves love and community, and finds these among witches, between trees, and with all that grows in the soil. She thinks, writes and teaches about climate change, capitalism, feminism and decolonial thinking. She is assistant professor at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Luca Hopman often turns to written work and writing to search for hope, solace and answers. She is working on a PhD about precarious housing in relation to energy infrastructure in Amsterdam. She works at University Utrecht.
Anushka Dasgupta is a PhD researcher working on the themes of cities, housing and organising. While work brings her to Amsterdam and Dublin, her heart also belongs in New Delhi and Kolkata. She loves post and is often sending handwritten letters to friends across these places, exploring nostalgia, hope and feminist, anti-capitalist futures in these landscapes that have nurtured her.
Gresa Gashi takes a feminist and decolonial perspective on what care and survival look like in everyday lives. In Rotterdam, she follows women who create their security every day together, throught their own efforts, and despite everything. She is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University.
Website design and development:
Robin de Haan
Friedlander typeface:
Original design by Elisabeth Friedländer
( 1903–1984 ), digitized and expanded by Laura Markert, mastered by Comma-type.