Join us for the first day of the Bread and Roses Festival.
Bread and Roses Festival: Friday 22 May
ROSA Socialist Feminist Movement
22 May 2026
Friday 22 May Schedule
5pm – 6.20pm: CHOOSE ONE
- From Repeal to I believe Her – Lessons from the feminist wave in Ireland 2010s – early 2020s.
- bell hooks & the Black feminist tradition.
- Ecofeminism – indigenous movements, degrowth ecosocialism, & feminism and climate justice.
- Beyond the binary – intersex liberation and the fight for bodily autonomy.
6.30pm: Panel on Art and Resistance.
7.30 pm – 9pm: Why are fascists so obsessed with our bodies? Why the resistance to the far right has to be socialist feminist.
As part of this two day festival, Meena Kandasamy will be doing an exclusive book launch & signing. Meena Kandasamy is a feminist and anti-caste activist and a women’s prize shortlisted writer based in Chennai, India. The Bread and Roses Festival 2026 will see the Irish launch of her highly anticipated forthcoming novel, Fieldwork As a Sex Object about incels, influencers and the far-right in online spaces.
Other Guest contributors include Dan Hoff lead singer of Gurriers; Ailbhe Smyth, veteran feminist & LGBTQ campaigner; Hazel Behan, victim/survivor & campaigner; Eman Mohammed, award-winning Palestinian photojournalist from Gaza; and Dean Van Nguyen, author of Words for my comrades: A political history of Tupac Shakur.
Dates & Times
Friday 22 May
4:30pm - 9pm
Tickets
€12
Space
Space Upstairs
Content Warning
Some of the talks will features themes of gender-based violence, racism and transphobia.
Genres
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