🎥 Neptune Frost (Eng subs, Rwanda/US 2021). Afrofuturist science fiction romantic musical. The films is set in a village in Burundi made of computer parts, and centers on the relationship between Neptune, an intersex runaway hacker, and Matalusa, a coltan miner.

Content Warning: violence, death

📅 Tuesday September 23th. Doors open 19.00, movie starts at 19.15.
⏲️ Movie length: 1h50
📍 De Opstand, The Hague (ask your network 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 the 28th of September at 12:00 in Plesmanlaan, Den Haag, for a demonstration in support of Emily, against attacks on trans people, against the far right, for true safety and rights for all!

Attacks on our community:
On August 4th our comrade Emily was assaulted by 2 men, in her own neighborhood. They kicked her and hit her on the head, on the basis of her being trans, after she noticed the hateful texts on streetlights. This occurrence is not new – these people have been putting up hateful far right stickers promoting LGBT+phobic and antisemitic rhetoric. It has gotten to a point where Emily is forced to use the back door of her house in fear of her safety.

Attacks on trans people and far right on the rise:
This attack is not isolated – many trans and queer people share similar experiences – there is a rise in attacks against trans people over the last few years, in the NL and globally, physical ones but also ones on rights and healthcare. This trend is directly connected to the rising far right – Wilders, Trump, AfD in Germany – they use trans people, muslim people, immigrants and other minorities as scapegoats and portray them as the source of problems in society, while at the same time they propose no solution to the real problems plaguing a majority of working people – ever increasing housing prices, a wave of violence against women, rising cost of living and more.

“Liberal” parties offer no solution:
Meanwhile “centre-left” and “liberal” parties, GroenLinks PvdA for example, are offering no alternative, and instead they prefer to invest in war while cutting on our welfare and do not even attempt to handle the troubles facing us. These austerity measures especially hurt trans people and other oppressed minorities. Additionally, they only serve to strengthen the far right who are presenting themselves as friends of the “average person”.

Build up  the fightback!
For us to achieve trans safety and to guarantee rights, and for us to combat the far right, there is a need to build a mass struggle against the whole agenda of the far right that is promoting these attacks, and against the “centre” parties who are not offering  any alternative.

Check out the new arrivals at our bookshop:

1. Trans Femme Futures
2. Islam and Anarchisme
3. Fascist Yoga
4. Constellations of Care
5. Radical Intimacy
6. Practical Anarchism: a guide for daily life

We also got the a new issue of the Buiten De Orde and many new zines, including special ones from Romania.

🎥 Born in Flames (Eng subs, US 1983). Utopian/dystopian mockumentary, 90 min. Directed by Lizzie Borden. A film about a feminist revolution in an alternative timeline where the US became a socialist state. Featuring a black lesbian leader and a radio DJ. Set in a gritty and apocalyptic New York, it explores the issues of minorities, feminism, and gay rights.

Content Warning: gaslighting, attempted sexual assault, death

📅 Tuesday September 9th. Doors open 19.00, movie starts at 19.30.
⏲️ Movie length: 1h30
📍 De Opstand, The Hague (ask your network 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.

🎥 The Time That Remains – Chronicle of a Present Absentee (Eng subs, UK 2009). Semi-biographical comedy-drama, 109 min. Directed by Elia Suleiman. This is a blackly comic, four-part look at the lives of Arabs living in Israel over the past half-century. The main character speaks no words during his time onscreen, and his silence lends the character a kind of invisibility that seems meant as an analogy to his view of the Arab presence in Israel. He’s present, yet absent.

Content Warning: ethno-state

📅 Tuesday August 12th. Doors open 19.00, movie starts at 19.30.
⏲️ Movie length: 1h49
📍 De Opstand, The Hague (DM for the address)

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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

Since so many people couldn’t join our last book club, we will have another meeting. On August 19th, we will discuss the last four chapters of the book “Practical Anarchism – a guide for daily life”, by Shuli Branson.

Anyone is invited, whether you read it or not.

DM for copies and location.

📅 Tuesday August 19th.

⏲️ 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

🎥 Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust (Eng subs, India 2024). Animation, 103 min. Directed by Ishan Shukla. With Asia Argento, Gaspar Noé, Golshifteh Farahani, Anurag Kashyap. A bored office worker may have accidentally sparked a revolution in a bizarre dystopian world.
🗓️ Tuesday 8 July 19:00

🎥 Kokomo City (Eng subs, US 2023). Documentary, 73 min. Directed by D. Smith. With Daniella Carter, Dominique Silver, Koko Da Doll. A raw depiction of the lives of four black trans sex workers as they confront the dichotomy between the black community and themselves.
🗓️ Tuesday 15 July 19:00

🎥 Transfariana (Eng subs, Colombia 2023). Documentary, 153 min. Directed by Joris Lachaise. With Laura Katalina Zamora, Jaison Murillo. An unexpected love story between a trans former sex worker and a FARC rebel begins in a Colombian prison and leads to an alliance in solidarity between trans activists and FARC militants who have laid down their arms.
🗓️ Tuesday 22 July 18:30 (we will start this one earlier than usual)

🎥 Appropriate Behavior (Eng subs, UK 2014). Comedy-drama, 86 min. Directed by Desiree Akhavan. With Desiree Akhavan, Rebecca Henderson, Halley Feiffer. Shirin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual, and hip young Brooklynite, but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities. Being without a cliché to hold onto can be a lonely experience.
🗓️ Tuesday 29 July 19:00

📍 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.

We are hosting a boardgame night for people of all skill levels. Feel free to bring your own games. It will also be regular opening night, so you welcome to come to check the library too.

Tuesday June 17th, 19:00
DM or email us for the address.

📅 Tuesday June 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 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 June 24th, we will discuss the last four chapters of the book “Practical Anarchism – a guide for daily life”, by Shuli Branson.

DM for copies and location.

📅 Tuesday June 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

Do you need some break from protesting the NATO summit this weekend? Then come to the Opstand to eat something and chill while Misantroop and Your Local Pirates play (they are launching a new album and have plenty to say).

🗓️ Saturday June 21, 17:00 – 20:00
📍 DM or email for the address.
💶 Bring cash

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Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheel chair 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 is your accessibility needs are not covered.