THE FEMINIST ACADEMY
Ideas for seeing the world differently.
An independent feminist education and cultural platform exploring the systems that shape women’s lives.
Essays · Talks · Masterclasses · Reading Groups · Live Events
Then £25/month.
HOW IT WORKS
One theme a month. Three ways in.
Every month we take a single idea and turn it over from several directions — so you can follow the thread that suits you, and still be part of the same conversation.
The Book Club
Our non-fiction read for the month, chosen to open up the theme. Past reads include Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit, The New Age of Sexism by Laura Bates and The Will to Change by bell hooks.
The Fiction Shelf
The same theme, explored through fiction. A novel or short story collection that puts the month's questions into someone else's life.
The Cultural Lens
The theme connected to an artist, poet or photographer — because a painting or a poem can say what an argument takes pages to reach.
Themes have ranged from masculinity and patriarchal power to agency and consent.
You do not need to finish the book to join the conversation.
“Hiding in Plain Sight” gathers Solange’s essays on making visible how patriarchy shapes everyday life.
The book community
A little structure for a lot of thinking.
The Academy is essays, talks, masterclasses, live events and reading groups. At the centre of it sits our feminist book club: one book a month, read at your own pace, and a room that asks nothing of you but curiosity.
01
Choose the book
Read it at your own pace. Our masterclass is our own discussion of selected ideas from the book — commentary and context to support your reading, never a substitute for it.
02
Unpack the ideas
Short, generous masterclasses bring our own reading of the book’s ideas — company for whatever pace you read at.
03
Meet in the room
Join the live conversation near the end of the month. Bring a thought, a question, or simply your listening self.
04
Keep the thread
Stay in the group chat, follow the reading roadmap, and let the conversation ripple into everyday life.
Ideas need company
“The most interesting conversations are the ones that make the world feel newly visible.”
A feminist reading group for curious minds, generous debate, and the kind of connection that does not require you to perform certainty.
What you get
A place to read beyond the feed.
Curated books
Feminist writing that opens a door into a new question, not a test you have to pass.
Accessible learning
Feminist masterclasses that offer our own commentary on the book’s ideas, and a way into the conversation.
Live exchange
A relaxed monthly debate where listening counts as much as having the perfect point.
Real community
A group chat, occasional exhibitions, and other ways to build community in person — for people who want to show up, be held, and keep learning.
About
Ideas with somewhere to land.
The Feminist Academy is led and curated by Solange Gulizzi, a doctoral researcher and PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Essex. She has spent years researching power and gender through art and architecture.
Her work asks how gender and class shape the spaces we live in — and how those spaces shape everyday experience, identity, inequality and resistance. Rooted in feminist theory, it brings rigorous ideas into an open, everyday conversation.
Solange founded The Feminist Academy and facilitates its monthly book community, meeting in person and online.
Meet the founderYour next good question
Come for the book. Stay for the thinking together.
7 days free, then £25/month.