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The Feminist Duration Reading Group (FDRG) focuses on under-represented feminist texts, movements and struggles from outside the Anglo-American canon. The group has developed a practice of reading out loud, together, one paragraph at a time, with the aim of creating a sense of connection and intimacy during meetings.

The group was established in March 2015 by Helena Reckitt, at Goldsmiths, University of London, to explore texts from the Italian feminist movement of the 1970s and 1980s. Later in 2015 it relocated to SPACE in Hackney, East London where it was hosted by Persilia Caton until April 2019. From June 2019 to February 2020 the group was in residence at the South London Gallery, where it focused on intersectional feminisms in the UK context (a planned year-long programme that was moved online due to COVID-19).

In 2023 we were one of several groups selected for the eighteen month Residents programme at Goldsmiths CCA, London.

From 2023-2024 FDRG partnered with Cell Project Space developing CEED (Central East European and Diaspora) Feminisms, funded by the British Art Network, with Cell Project Space.

FDRG sessions have been organised in London with the Advocacy Academy, Artangel, Barbican Art Gallery, Cell Project Space, Chelsea Space, Chisenhale Gallery, the Drawing Room, Feminist Library, Flat Time House, Goethe Institute, Goldsmiths CCA, Mimosa House, Mosaic Rooms, The Showroom, Sine Screen, South Kiosk, Studio Voltaire, Tate Modern, in collaboration with AntiUniversity, the Department of Feminist Conversations, and FIELDNOTES, and as part of The Table at the Swiss Church.

Elsewhere in the UK the FDRG has been hosted by Grand Union and Eastside Projects, Birmingham, esea, Manchester, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, and Hypatia Trust, Penzance.  A sister group, NW FDRG, was set up in Liverpool by Kezia Davies in 2019.        

Internationally we have partnered with Emilia-Amalia at Art Metropole in Toronto, Canada; Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof and HFBK Hamburg, Germany; and with ‘Hope is a Dscipline’ curators as part of the 2024 October Salon in Belgrade, Serbia. In 2025 the group contributed to Mundos Habitables (Liveable Worlds), an online resource devised by Peruvian-based curator Susan Quinilan.

Online international meetings have been held with groups including Radical Sense in Tirana, Albania, Mai Ling in Vienna, Austria, and the Gender Studies journal in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

In 2015, at the end of the FDRG’s first year, seven members - Angelica Bolletinari, Giulia Casalini, Diana Georgiou, Laura Guy, Helena Reckitt, Irene Revell, and Amy Tobin - organised the two-week long events programme, ‘Now Can Go,’ focused on legacies of Italian feminism, across the ICA, The Showroom, SPACE, and Raven Row in London.  

The group usually meets once a month, in art spaces and community venues as well as non-institutional venues such as private homes or gardens. From 2025 - 2027 we are Residents at Goldsmiths CCA, London.

The FDRG aims to create an inclusive trans-positive space. We welcome feminists of all genders and generations to explore the legacy and resonance of art, thinking and collective practice from earlier periods of feminism, in dialogue with contemporary practices and movements.

Working Group

FDRG sessions are initiated by a Working Group. Current members are Beth Bramich, Lina Džuverović, Sabrina Fuller, Taey Iohe, Mariana Lemos, Katrin Lock, Helena Reckitt, and Dot Zhihan Jia.

Former Working Group Former members are Giulia Antonioli, Angelica Bollettinari, Lily Evans-Hill, Félicie Kertudo, Ceren Özpinar, Sara Paiola, Justin Seng, Ehryn Torrell, and Fiona Townend.

Working with the FDRG: A Note for Institutions

The FDRG is run by members of the voluntary Working and Support Groups. We regularly partner with community and arts organizations to offer free events to the public.

The reading group is our collective practice that we enjoy and like sharing with others. Facilitating sessions does of course involve considerable time and effort. We also have running costs for web hosting and communication, invited speaker fees etc.

We understand financial constraints within the cultural sector, but appreciate any contributions that support our efforts.

The FDRG operates an ‘Honesty Box,’ and asks funded organisations to pay what they can.

For organisations who can access funding, we suggest a fee of £300 - £600 per session, depending on the scope of work entailed.  This roughly follows the a-n artist payment guidelines for 1-1.5 days for an artist with seven years professional experience (the FDRG was set up in 2015).

Collaborators and Partners

FDRG sessions have been led by Adomas Narkevicius, Ximena Alarcón-Díaz, Giulia Antonioli, Diana Baker Smith, Anna Barham, Fari Bradley, Beth Bramich, Giulia Casalini, Laura Castagnini, Catherine Cho, Leah Clements, Morgane Conti, Lauren Craig, Cinzia Cremona, Galit Criden, Giulia Damiani, Oana Damir, Kezia Davies, Department of Feminist Conversations, Flora Dunster, Lina Džuverović, Lily Evans-Hall, Lucia Farinati, Berit Fischer, Lynne Friedli, Sabrina Fuller, Diana Georgiou, Rose Gibbs, Marija Iva Gocic, Valeria Graziano, Laura Guy, Haley Ha, Lily Hall, Nora Heidorn, Minna Henriksson, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Yurika Imaseki, Taey Iohe, Félicie Kertudo, Hristina Cvetlincann Knezevic, Alexandra Kokoli, Jessie Krish, Mariana Lemos, Mai Ling, Barbara Mahlknecht, Alex Martinis Roe, Jessa Mockridge, Jet Moon, Gabby Moser, Roisin O’Sullivan, Ceren Özpinar, Frances Painter Fleming, Grace Eunhye Park, Sara Paiola, Natalia Paunic, Raju Rage, Helena Reckitt, Irene Revell, Lidia Salvatori, Elif Sarican, E Scourti, Justin Seng, Sarah Shin, Zorana Simic, Something Other, Cecilia Sosa, Amy Tobin, Ehryn Torrell, Emma Yifan Wang, Ana Simona Zellenovic, and Dot Zhihan Jia.

Artists, Writers & Collectives

Sessions have been dedicated to texts and artworks including those by Clay AD, Naadje Al-Aali, Joan Anim-Addo, Floya Anthias and Nira Yuval-Davis, Gloria Anzaldua, Jenn Ashworth, Margot Badran, Sita Balani, Anna Barham, Khairani Barokka, Marquis Bey, Chiai Bonfiglioli, Anne Boyer, Brixton Black Women’s Group, adrienne maree brown, Wilmette Brown, Octavia E Butler, Sakine Cansiz, Hazel V Carby, Adriana Cavarero, Teresa Hak Kyung Cha, Anne Anlin Cheng, Catherine Cho, Barbara Christian, Lia Cigarini, Eli Clare, Leah Clements, Diane di Prima, Lauren Craig, Galit Criden, Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James, Abri De Swardt, Maria Puig De La Bellacasa, Leah Clements, Claudia Durastanti, JJJJJ Ellis, Silvia Federici, Ray Filar, Leopoldina Fortunati, Leta Hong Fincher, Shulamith Firestone, Lauren Fournier, Takana Fuego, Ruth Frankenberg, Olivia Guaraldo, Katie Hare, Johanna Hedva, bell hooks, Kim Hyesoon, Onyeka Igwe, Sanja Iveković, Juliet Jacques, N K Jemison, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Aka Niviana, Marie Elizabeth Johnson, Jane Jin Kaisen, Banu Kapil, Jasleen Kaur, AE Kings, Larissa Lai, Andrea Lawlor, Naja Lee Langvad, Teresa de Lauretis, Clarice Lispector, Carla Lonzi, Fereil Ben Mahoud, Alex Martinis Roe, Lea Melandri, Fatema Mernissi, Milan Women’s Bookshop Collective, Trinh T Minh-ha, Adriana Monti, Jet Moon, D Mortimer, Antonella Nappi, Astrida Neimanis, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyen, Abdullah Ocalan, Naomi Okabe, Pauline Oliveros, Lola Olufemi, Sue O’Sullivan, Tanja Ostojić, Cecilia Palmeiro, Queer Beograd, Elizabeth Price, Darija Radaković, Raju Rage, Claudia Rankine, Tabita Rezaire, Rivolta Femminile, Lucia Egana Rojas, Sasha Roseneil, Gail Rubin, Lou Lou Sainsbury + Kari Rosenfeld, Sofia Samatar, Suzanne Santoro, E Scourti, Selma Selman, Christina Sharpe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Rhea Storr, Latif Tas, Miriam Ticktin, Tiqqun, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Iris Uurto, Nafu Wang, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Katri Vala, Vron Ware, Wages Due Lesbians, Wages for Housework, Francis Whorrall-Campbell, Linda Zerilli.

Contact us

If you would like to join the reading group mailing list or propose a focus for a session, or invite us to lead a meeting, please contact: feministduration@gmail.com 

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Feminist Duration Reading Group
Making Songs, Spells and Mischief: Anne Robinson
Aug 2

Aug 2 Making Songs, Spells and Mischief: Anne Robinson

Feminist Duration
2026

SUN 2 AUG, 2-6PM

GOLDSMITHS CCA, RESIDENTS SPACE, LONDON SE14 6AD

DEVISED AND LED BY ANNE ROBINSON WITH THE SUPPORT OF HELENA RECKITT

My name is Lubbert Das: A Fractured Chorus  with frank r jagoe
Aug 1

Aug 1 My name is Lubbert Das: A Fractured Chorus with frank r jagoe

Feminist Duration
2026

SUN 1 AUG, 2-3PM

GOLDSMITHS CCA, LONDON SE14 6AD

Fat And?  fatphobia, racist origins, and how we can take up space
Jul 5

Jul 5 Fat And? fatphobia, racist origins, and how we can take up space

Feminist Duration
2026

SUN 5 JULY, 2-6PM

GOLDSMITHS CCA, RESIDENTS SPACE, LONDON SE14 6AD

LED BY TIERSHA FAITH LAIRD; GUEST SPEAKER HOLLY LOWN

Materialising Memory: Gail Lewis and Alia Syed
Jun 24

Jun 24 Materialising Memory: Gail Lewis and Alia Syed

Feminist Duration

POSTPONED DUE TO HEATWAVE

WED 24 JUNE, 1-5PM

STUDENT LOUNGE, GOLDSMITHS STUDENT UNION, DIXON RD, LONDON, SE14 6NW

ORGANISED BY NIRMAL PUWAR + HELENA RECKITT

Why Oh Why? v. SCUM, Score by Cathy Lane
Jun 7

Jun 7 Why Oh Why? v. SCUM, Score by Cathy Lane

Feminist Duration
2026

SUN 7 JUNE

GOLDSMITHS CCA, RESIDENTS SPACE, LONDON SE14

SCORE PERFORMED DURING ‘BODIES OF SOUND / COSMIC SCORES,’ LED BY IRENE REVELL + SARAH SHIN, ORGANISED BY SABRINA FULLER

Bodies of Sound / Cosmic Scores:  Reading, writing, performing text scores
Jun 7

Jun 7 Bodies of Sound / Cosmic Scores: Reading, writing, performing text scores

Feminist Duration

SUN 7 JUNE, 1.30PM-5.30PM

GOLDSMITHS CCA, RESIDENTS SPACE, LONDON SE14 6AD

WITH IRENE REVELL + SARAH SHIN; ORGANISED BY SABRINA FULLER

So close/So distant
May 9

May 9 So close/So distant

Feminist Duration
2026

SAT 9 MAY, 2-6PM

GOLDSMITHS CINEMA, RICHARD HOGGART BUILDING, LEWISHAM WAY, LONDON SE14 6NW

ORGANISED BY RACHEL GARFIELD

Bibliographic Activism: Researching Under-Represented Cultures and Lineages
Apr 23

Apr 23 Bibliographic Activism: Researching Under-Represented Cultures and Lineages

Feminist Duration
2026

THURS 23 APRIL, 2-6PM
RICHARD HOGGART BLDG, ROOM RHB 142, GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, LEWISHAM WAY, LONDON SE14 6NW

GUEST SPEAKERS: ALICE CORBLE, ALISON DONNELL + DOT JIA ZHIHAN

ORGANISED BY CATHERINE GRANT, HELENA RECKITT, TANYA SERISIER + FRANCESCO VENTRELLA

Pratibha Parmar: Disrupting Paradigms
Apr 5

Apr 5 Pratibha Parmar: Disrupting Paradigms

Feminist Duration
2026

SUN 5 APRIL, 2-5PM

RESIDENTS SPACE, GOLDSMITHS CCA, LONDON SE14 6AD

ORGANISED BY BETH BRAMICH

Moyra Davey, Les Goddesses
Mar 21

Mar 21 Moyra Davey, Les Goddesses

Feminist Duration
2026

SAT 21 MARCH, 2-6PM

GOLDSMITHS CINEMA, RICHARD HOGGART BUILDING, LEWISHAM WAY, LONDON SE14 6NW

ORGANISED BY HELENA RECKITT, LUCY REYNOLDS + AMY TOBIN

Listening Across Difference: Tools of Empathy and Mutual Recognition
Feb 7

Feb 7 Listening Across Difference: Tools of Empathy and Mutual Recognition

Feminist Duration
2026

SAT 7 FEB, 2-6PM

COURTAULD INSTITUTE, VERNON SQUARE CAMPUS, LONDON WC1X 9EW

ORGANISED BY CATHERINE GRANT, HELENA RECKITT, TANYA SERISIER, + FRANCESCO VENTRELLA IN COLLABORATION WITH BETH BRAMICH + KATRIN LOCK

Claire Fontaine + Anita Chari
Dec 6

Dec 6 Claire Fontaine + Anita Chari

Feminist Duration
2025

SAT 5 DEC, 2-5PM

MIMOSA HOUSE, 47 THEOBALDS ROAD LONDON WC1X 8SP

ORGANISED BY HELENA RECKITT WITH FULVIA CARNEVALE + ANITA CHARI

Unwanted Growth at Bart’s Hospital
Nov 18

Nov 18 Unwanted Growth at Bart’s Hospital

Feminist Duration
2025

TUES 18 NOV, 6.30-8PM

BARTS NORTH WING, ST BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL, WEST SMITHFIELD, EC1A 7BE

ORGANISED BY MARIANA LEMOS + KATRIN LOCK

Intimacy and Opacity: Feminist Research across Writing, Curating and Archiving, with Laura Guy and Nydia A. Swaby
Nov 2

Nov 2 Intimacy and Opacity: Feminist Research across Writing, Curating and Archiving, with Laura Guy and Nydia A. Swaby

Feminist Duration

SUN 2 NOV, 2-5PM

GOLDSMITHS CCA, SE14

ORGANISED BY BETH BRAMICH, KATRIN LOCK + HELENA RECKITT

Carrier Bags and Healing Justice with Clay AD
Oct 5

Oct 5 Carrier Bags and Healing Justice with Clay AD

Feminist Duration
2025

SUN 5 OCT, 2-5.30PM

GOLDSMITHS CCA, SE14

ORGANISED BY MARIANA LEMOS + SABRINA FULLER

Opening up the Family Album: an experiential approach, Workshop led by Rosy Martin
Sep 21

Sep 21 Opening up the Family Album: an experiential approach, Workshop led by Rosy Martin

Feminist Duration
2025

SUN 21 SEPT, 11am-6PM

WOMEN’S ART LIBRARY, GOLDSMITHS SE14

ORGANISED BY ROSY MARTIN IN COLLABORATION WITH HELENA RECKITT, AS PART OF THE ‘AUTO’ PROGRAMME

All About Our Mothers
Sep 20

Sep 20 All About Our Mothers

Feminist Duration
2025

SAT 20 SEPT, 2-5PM

WOMEN’S ART LIBRARY, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

LED BY RACHEL GARFIELD, NORAH TSAI + HELENA RECKITT AS PART OF THE ‘AUTO’ PROGRAMME

FDRG Repertoire for Mundos Habitables (Liveable Worlds)
Sep 4

Sep 4 FDRG Repertoire for Mundos Habitables (Liveable Worlds)

Feminist Duration
2025

MUNDOS HABITABLES (LIVEABLE WORLDS)

CURATED BY SUSIE QUILLINAN

REPERTOIRE SELECTED BY GIULIA CASALINI, MADDY COSTA, KEZIA DAVIES, LUCIA FARINATI, SABRINA FULLER, BARBARA MAHLKNECHT, GABBY MOSER, SARA PAIOLA + HELENA RECKITT

Opening up the Family Album: an experiential approach, Workshop led by Rosy Martin
Aug 3

Aug 3 Opening up the Family Album: an experiential approach, Workshop led by Rosy Martin

Feminist Duration
2025

SUN 3 AUG, 12-5.30PM

GOLDSMITHS CCA, LONDON SE14

ORGANISED BY ROSY MARTIN IN COLLABORATION WITH HELENA RECKITT, AS PART OF THE ‘AUTO’ PROGRAMME

Unbecoming Chorus: Reading, writing, and performance in two acts (with interruption)
Jul 20

Jul 20 Unbecoming Chorus: Reading, writing, and performance in two acts (with interruption)

Feminist Duration
2025

SUN 20 JULY, 5-8PM

OAK FOUNDATION GALLERY, GOLDSMITHS CCA, LONDON SE14

AS PART OF DEPTFORD X

DEVISED BY TATIANA BOGACHEVA, ANNA BUNTING-BRANCH, JANE FRANCES DUNLOP, CATHERINE GRANT, ATHINA PETSOU, HELENA RECKITT, TRISH SCOTT, E SCOURTI, + ANA VICENTE, IN DIALOGUE WITH BETH BRAMICH & THE AUTO COLLECTIVE

GUEST ARTIST ALICE GALE-FEENY

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