BK Feminist Week at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, celebrates the many faces of feminism at our faculty and invites everyone to join in discussion – to celebrate, reflect, and build collective responsibility. Coinciding with International Women’s Day, it features activities, discussions, and walks on campus from feminist perspectives, allowing us to position ourselves and learn from each other. Through sharing experiences, the week aims to create space for inspiration, empowerment and change. What does feminism mean to you?
The full program of the week can be found here.
As part of this bottom-up event, Isabela Jaramillo and I are organising a reading session on feminism for the 99%. As the last activity in the week, this event is a space to sit, read, and reflect. Without speakers or discussions, you are invited to sit and read from a wide selection of texts carefully curated to bring feminist perspectives “from the margins” – Black, Indigenous, queer/trans feminisms, latinas, migrant, working women, anti-capitalism, among many other perspectices. This setting is based on two premises: (1) no single voice can represent all feminist perspectives, and (2) the work of educating others about gender oppression and intersectional feminist perspectives should not rest on those who experience marginalisation; everyone should take the responsibility of educating themselves. The journey to a feminism for the 99% is a shared responsibility, and this session is a space to begin or continue that work through reading and sharing.
We also created a booklet with the list of books curated for the event. You can download it here.
Juliana Gonçalves 