On April 14th, we will discuss chapters 1, 2, and 3 of the book “Undoing Suicidism”, by Alexandre Baril.

In Undoing Suicidism, Alexandre Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by what he calls structural suicidism, a hidden oppression that, until now, has been unnamed and under-theorized. Each year, suicidism and its preventionist script and strategies reproduce violence and cause additional harm and death among suicidal people through forms of criminalization, incarceration, discrimination, stigmatization, and pathologization. This is particularly true for marginalized groups experiencing multiple oppressions, including queer, trans, disabled, or Mad people.

Anyone is invited, whether you read it or not. The book is available to download at https://temple.manifoldapp.org/projects/undoing-suicidism

DM for the location.

📅 Tuesday April 14th

⏲️ Time: 19h00

📍 De Opstand, The Hague (ask your network, DM, or e-mail for the address at boekenwinkelopstand@riseup.net)

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheelchair accessibility. A quiet room is also available. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs. We encourage everyone to refrain from wearing products containing fragrances, to wear a face mask, to do a self-test test and to stay home if you have cold-like symptoms. Face masks and self tests are available on location. Send us a message if your accessibility needs are not covered.

Join us on Sunday 19th of April, at 13:00 for a workshop on how to start using Reticulum.

Reticulum is the cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware. Reticulum can continue to operate even in adverse conditions with very high latency and extremely low bandwidth. The vision of Reticulum is to allow anyone to operate their own sovereign communication networks, and to make it cheap and easy to cover vast areas with a myriad of independent, interconnectable and autonomous networks. Reticulum is Unstoppable Networks for The People.

*Bring a laptop/smartphone if possible!

📅 Sunday April 19th
⏲️ Time: 13h00 – ?
📍 De Opstand, The Hague (ask your network, DM, or e-mail for the address at boekenwinkelopstand@riseup.net)
💶 Donation-based

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheelchair accessibility. A quiet room is also available. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs. We encourage everyone to refrain from wearing products containing fragrances, to wear a face mask, to do a self-test test and to stay home if you have cold-like symptoms. Face masks and self tests are available on location. Send us a message if your accessibility needs are not covered.

🎥 Castration Movie by Louise Weard (Eng subs, Canada 2024/2025). Ongoing anthology drama film series.
Movie Anthology I: Trans sex worker Michaela mentors her newly-out friend Adeline while pursuing motherhood in Vancouver. Production assistant Turner slides toward inceldom as his relationship falls apart.
Movie Anthology II: Michaela navigates political and gender issues affecting marginalized people while trying to maintain her integrity as others attempt to manipulate her for their purposes.

Content Warning: many, we will inform specific ones before each block.

📅 Tuesday March 31st (Trans Day of Visibility)
⏲️ Time: 10h00 – 22h00
📍 De Opstand, The Hague (ask your network, DM, or e-mail for the address at boekenwinkelopstand@riseup.net)

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheelchair accessibility. A quiet room is also available. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs. We encourage everyone to refrain from wearing products containing fragrances, to wear a face mask, to do a self-test and to stay home if you have cold-like symptoms. Face masks and self tests are available on location. Send us a message if your accessibility needs are not covered.

On February 24th, we are hosting a Relationship Anarchy meetup. We welcome everyone who is interested in these principles of living and connecting with others. You don’t need to have any prior knowledge, curiosity and kindness are enough. If you practice Relationship Anarchy and want to discuss the practical side, if you’re looking for advice or just a chat about common experiences, we hope this meetup feels cozy and helpful.

For this session we will read together the following text:
– https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/karhu-suhdeanarkisti-manifesto-for-relationship-anarchy-2-0

DM for location.

📅 Tuesday February 24th.
⏲️ Time: 19h00
📍 De Opstand, The Hague (ask your network, DM, or e-mail for the address at boekenwinkelopstand@riseup.net)

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheelchair accessibility. A quiet room is also available. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs. We encourage everyone to refrain from wearing products containing fragrances, to wear a face mask, to do a self-test test and to stay home if you have cold-like symptoms. Face masks and self tests are available on location. Send us a message if your accessibility needs are not covered.

Join us on Tuesday 10th of March, 19:00-22:00 for a cozy collective Reading Counterpower session. We will be reading aloud together: Vectoralism – the economic system of the 21st Century.

Together we will think about the rising tide of technofascism we see all around the world. Why are multiple nation-states implementing restrictive and privacy invasive policies, and seemingly all at nearly the same time? Why are Big Tech companies so eager to sidle up to the far-right and authoritarian regimes? This essay discusses this new mode of production which emerged during the rise of the information age cemented in the mid-2010s.

Through this series, we aim to learn from past and present struggles and build community while doing so – because it’s time to build another world together

No prior reading needed!

📅 Tuesday March 10th
⏲️ Time: 19h00
📍 De Opstand, The Hague (ask your network, DM, or e-mail for the address at boekenwinkelopstand@riseup.net)

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheelchair accessibility. A quiet room is also available. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs. We encourage everyone to refrain from wearing products containing fragrances, to wear a face mask, to do a self-test test and to stay home if you have cold-like symptoms. Face masks and self tests are available on location. Send us a message if your accessibility needs are not covered

🎥 Vivas by Angélica Cruz Aguilar (Eng subs, Germany/Mexico 2022). Documentary. Mexico sees official counts of 10‑11 feminicides per day; VIVAS places these tragedies within the larger feminist mobilisations seeking recognition, redress, and systemic reform. The term ‘feminicide’ was coined in Mexico and refers to the inaction and neglicence of the state in the murders of women. The fight against femi(ni)cide raises questions surrounding the state’s role in prevention, but also about decarceral and abolitionist feminism, striving for the abolition of prisons, police and the justice system as we know it today.

Intro & discussion by Róisín, femicide researcher and initiator of @femicide_niet_uit_liefde, a DIY project to raise funds for victims/survivors of intimate partner violence and (attempted) femicide who are not sufficiently helped by the system.

Content Warning: femicide

📅 Tuesday February 17th
⏲️ Time: 19h00 – 22h00 (movie length 83 min)
📍 De Opstand, The Hague (ask your network, DM, or e-mail for the address at boekenwinkelopstand@riseup.net)

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheelchair accessibility. A quiet room is also available. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs. We encourage everyone to refrain from wearing products containing fragrances, to wear a face mask, to do a self-test and to stay home if you have cold-like symptoms. Face masks and self tests are available on location. Send us a message if your accessibility needs are not covered.

🎥 De Opstand + @thehague.for.palestine presents Palestine 36 by Annemarie Jacir (Eng subs, 2025). The historical drama recounts the 1936–1939 Arab revolt against British colonial rule in Palestine during the Mandate period.

Content Warning: hate speech, violence, death

📅 Tuesday February 3rd
⏲️ Time: 19h00 – 22h00 (movie length 120 min)
📍 De Opstand, The Hague (ask your network, DM, or e-mail for the address at boekenwinkelopstand@riseup.net)

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheelchair accessibility. A quiet room is also available. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs. We encourage everyone to refrain from wearing products containing fragrances, to wear a face mask, to do a self-test and to stay home if you have cold-like symptoms. Face masks and self tests are available on location. Send us a message if your accessibility needs are not covered.

Join us on Tuesday 27th of January, 19:00-22:00 for a cozy collective Reading Counterpower session. We will be reading aloud together: Desire lines and defensive architecture in modern urban environments by Naomi Smith and Peter Walters. Stripping Architecture will join us to deepen our discussion on what we can learn from direct action initiatives.
Through this series, we aim to learn from past and present struggles and build community while doing so – because it’s time to build another world together.

No prior reading needed!

📅 Tuesday January 27th
⏲️ Time: 19h00 – 22h00
📍 De Opstand, The Hague (ask your network, DM, or e-mail for the address at boekenwinkelopstand@riseup.net)

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheelchair accessibility. A quiet room is also available. The Opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs. We encourage everyone to refrain from wearing products containing fragrances, to wear a face mask, to do a self-test test and to stay home if you have cold-like symptoms. Face masks and self tests are available on location. Send us a message if your accessibility needs are not covered.

New books in the bookshop: The conquest of bread, Black anarcist legacies, What white people can do next, Love in a f*cked-up world, The mechanic and the luddite, The sapling cage, Anarchy – a graphic guide, Anarchy in the big easy, Perfecte slachtoffers, How fascism works, Polyamory in the 21st century, Late fascism, The rise of ecofascism, Favela resistance, Capitalist realism, A Palestine reader, Antifa, The anatomy of fascism, It’s called polyamory, Orientalism, Means and Ends.

New books in the library: The world after Gaza, Over het kolonialisme, Reconsidering reparations, Revolutionary Yiddishland, In defense of anarchism, Wrestling with the devil, alles over liefde, Beyond the final whistle, The new fascist body, Feminist City, Genocide bad, Nuclear is not the solution, AH not to go, Gaza – the story of a genocide, The Muslim state and mind, On anarchism, Gaza in my phone, Decolonial ecology, On castes, My country Africa, Decolonizing bodies, De vloek van nootmuskaat, Theory of water, How to leave the world.