Bread and Roses Festival

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.

10:30am -12:15pm: CHOOSE ONE 

• AI – a tool for fascism & misogyny. 
• Afeni Shakur – Tupac’s Mother & Revolutionary with Dean van Nguyen. 
• Trad wives and the fascist aesthetic. 
• ‘The Witch: 21st Century Activist/Disruptor/Socialist Feminist’. 
• Palestinian Freedom -a defining struggle. 
• From Ni una menos to Me Too, to I believe her – lessons from the global revolt against gender violence for today as the far right try to weaponise gender violence while being led by abusers. 

1.15pm-2 .45pm: Genocide, Ecocide & the Growing Fascist Menace -resisting capitalist hellscape & imagining an alternative.  

3pm – 4:20pm: CHOOSE ONE 

• Strategies for social and individual change: What can we learn from feminist therapy theories about our mental health when we are surrounded by crises and uncaring systems. 
• Gender Violence in the North. 
• Why capitalism does not care. 
• Trans healthcare & medical misogyny. 
• Revolutionary women — Luisa Capetillo Perón ; Eleanor Marx ; Rosa Luxemburg. 
• Manosphere is grooming boys into misogyny, rightwing radicalisation & depression.

4:30pm – 4:45pm: Counselling notes campaign – Report from Socialist feminists in action.  

5pm – 6pm: Mother and Baby Homes, Magdalene Laundries, the church-state nexus – Irish capitalism’s embedded misogyny and how we can break free.