'Just Listening: Towards an Oliverosian Feminism' led by Ximena Alarcón-Díaz and Irene Revell. Photo: Helena Reckitt.
‘Unbecoming Chorus,’ 2025, devised by Tatiana Bogacheva, Anna Bunting-Branch, Jane Frances Dunlop, Catherine Grant, Athina Petsou, Helena Reckitt, Trish Scott, E. Scourti, and Ana Vicente, in dialogue with Beth Bramich and the Feminist Duration Reading Group's Auto Collective. Photo: Katrin Lock.
Alice Gale-Feeny, 'Gen S28. Push Up/Fold In’ (working title), 2025. Photo: Katrin Lock
‘Unbecoming Chorus,’ 2025, devised by Tatiana Bogacheva, Anna Bunting-Branch, Jane Frances Dunlop, Catherine Grant, Athina Petsou, Helena Reckitt, Trish Scott, E. Scourti, and Ana Vicente, in dialogue with Beth Bramich and the Feminist Duration Reading Group's Auto Collective. Photo: Katrin Lock.
FDRG 'Mapping Togetherness'
‘Between the Stacks’ performance by D Mortimer and Prinx Silver as part of 'Bodying Libraries' by Jessa Mockridge. Photo: Cris Volpe.
'Notes' organised by Department of Feminist Conversations. Photo: Helena Reckitt.
Feminist Duration Reading Group
Formed in 2015, the Feminist Duration Reading Group (FDRG) focuses on under-known and under-appreciated feminist texts and movements from outside the Anglo-American canon. The group’s free monthly programme, open to all, has encompassed film screenings, performances, workshops, translations, walks, meals, podcasts, writing and listening, as well as collective reading.
They often read out loud, one person, one paragraph or sentence at a time, in order to create connection and intimacy during meetings. With no pressure on participants to read in advance, this inclusive space nurtures learning as a communal experience. By giving a platform to feminist voices from diverse geographical backgrounds and artistic and academic disciplines, we facilitate a rich learning environment that aims to embody feminist practices.
Meetings have taken place in art galleries, community centres, universities, parks, and living rooms in the UK and Canada, and online during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021 the FDRG produced the podcast ‘Nothing Worth Doing is Done Alone: On Friendship and Feminist Organising,’ commissioned by the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof and HFBK Hamburg, featuring the voices of nineteen womxn linked to the group.
In February 2025, the FDRG initiated ‘Auto,’ a collectively-devised programme exploring experiments in life writing, autofiction and autotheory. ‘Unbecoming Chorus,’ a series highlight, organised as part of Deptford X, explored plural, dissonant and non-conforming selves across reading, guided writing, and a performance by Alice Gale-Feeny. As well as continuing the ‘Auto’ series our 2025-2026 CCA programme includes ‘Feminist Tools for Working Across Difference, launched with an event led by Nydia A. Swaby inspired by her book Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives which speculates on the future of Black feminist and archival practices.
The FDRG is led by an intergenerational, transnational Working Group comprising Beth Bramich, Lina Džuverović, Sabrina Fuller, Taey Iohe, Mariana Lemos, Katrin Lock, Helena Reckitt, and Dot Zhihan.
Website: www.feministduration.com
Instagram: @feministduration
Formed in 2015, the Feminist Duration Reading Group (FDRG) focuses on under-known and under-appreciated feminist texts and movements from outside the Anglo-American canon. The group’s free monthly programme, open to all, has encompassed film screenings, performances, workshops, translations, walks, meals, podcasts, writing and listening, as well as collective reading.
They often read out loud, one person, one paragraph or sentence at a time, in order to create connection and intimacy during meetings. With no pressure on participants to read in advance, this inclusive space nurtures learning as a communal experience. By giving a platform to feminist voices from diverse geographical backgrounds and artistic and academic disciplines, we facilitate a rich learning environment that aims to embody feminist practices.
Meetings have taken place in art galleries, community centres, universities, parks, and living rooms in the UK and Canada, and online during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021 the FDRG produced the podcast ‘Nothing Worth Doing is Done Alone: On Friendship and Feminist Organising,’ commissioned by the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof and HFBK Hamburg, featuring the voices of nineteen womxn linked to the group.
In February 2025, the FDRG initiated ‘Auto,’ a collectively-devised programme exploring experiments in life writing, autofiction and autotheory. ‘Unbecoming Chorus,’ a series highlight, organised as part of Deptford X, explored plural, dissonant and non-conforming selves across reading, guided writing, and a performance by Alice Gale-Feeny. As well as continuing the ‘Auto’ series our 2025-2026 CCA programme includes ‘Feminist Tools for Working Across Difference, launched with an event led by Nydia A. Swaby inspired by her book Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives which speculates on the future of Black feminist and archival practices.
The FDRG is led by an intergenerational, transnational Working Group comprising Beth Bramich, Lina Džuverović, Sabrina Fuller, Taey Iohe, Mariana Lemos, Katrin Lock, Helena Reckitt, and Dot Zhihan.
Website: www.feministduration.com
Instagram: @feministduration
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