PINK FLAMINGOS
Join us 26 November @opstand.denhaag !

Pink Flamingos, 1972, directed by John Waters
This is a dark comedy about notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine. This movie is 60% around sex or being the filthiest most depraved person alive and 40% hard to follow storyline. It is perverted.
*If you are sensitive and can be triggered easily, then think about if you rather skip this film screening and join us again the next time?

We want to show and discuss this film because we think John Walters is an unique artist that makes films from the sympathetic position of the villain. He goes against the normies and the sterilized beige society. He glamorizes the rogues of society. We would love to discuss his critique on society through the lens of Pink Flamingo.

Trigger warnings: sex & nudity, violence & gore, sexual assault, animal cruelty, cannibalism, drug & alcohol use, and many more. Please check www.doesthedogdie.com for full list of trigger warmings.

Doors open 19.00, movie starts at 19.30 and is 1h33m. After the screening we will have a short discussion. DM or email us for the location.
Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheel chair accessibility. The opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible with stairs.
We encourage everyone to wear a face mask, do a self test if you have cold-like symptoms and stay home if you have Covid. Face masks and self tests are available.

“In THE BALLAD OF A NEVER-ENDING ELEVATOR ACCIDENT M. Alberto presents a selection of performance poetry written and performed between 2020 and 2024. A collection of critical and meditative work, questioning late-stage capitalism, the city and its borders & the body and its limits – from a queer Black anarchist perspective.”

Send us an email for the location.

More info on the artist and the book here:
https://deb9bc1c-bed0-440d-b7eb-eb579774a322.usrfiles.com/ugd/deb9bc_92bbefb14ee94607a697ee36e5a450f1.pdf

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 wear a face mask, do a self test if you have cold-like symptoms and stay home if you have Covid. Face masks and self tests are available. Send us a message is your accessibility needs are not covered.

The Opstand goes to the anarchist book fair in Amsterdam. Hope to see you there 😉

Cosy Radical Storytelling;
queer speculative fiction writing session

The stories we tell are constantly shaping our reality as we shape them. These stories move through us, metabolically nestled inside the body, until they are ready to diffuse back out into the world, maybe as new stories. Our storytelling muscles are essential for weaving the worlds we desire and need some training! Come along on the 22nd for a collective writing circle, where will spend time with your imaginations and hopefully write together stories of queer worlds of resistance and regeneration.

No prior writing experience is needed, but if you have an existing idea for a story please bring it along. Or perhaps you have an excerpt of an existing story or favourite speculative fiction book that you can to share with the group? Or an object that prompts imagination? We will propose some short writing exercises to get us started, otherwise we will work with the material you bring and the space will be open for whatever the collective mood invites.

See you for a cosy evening for queer imagination and storytelling.

Hosted by @queeredfutures___lab

Send us an email for the location.

Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheel chair accessibility. The opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible via stairs.
We encourage everyone to wear a face mask, do a self test if you have cold-like symptoms and stay home if you have Covid. Face masks and self tests are available

We are kicking off a new round of book discussions with: Popular resistance in Palestine.

Send us a DM over instagram or an email for the location.

The main space is wheelchair accessible but to access the shelves with books you need to walk up one flight of stairs. We also provide face masks and keep the space well ventilated during opening hours.

Join us 24 September @opstand for this film screening!

Green Border (Original title: Zielona Granica, 2023, directed by Agnieszka Holland). Language: Polish, Arabic, English, French. English subtitles

A family of refugees from Syria, an English teacher from Afghanistan and a border guard all meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis in Belarus. A refugee drama between hope and despair, cynicism and humanity. It’s not a documentary, but a lot of the things that happened in the movie took place in real life.

** Trigger warnings: violence, bodily harm, children’s death, vomit **

Doors open 19.00, movie starts at 19.15 and is 2 ½ hours. After the screening we will have a short discussion. DM or email us for the location

Accessibility information: the event is on the ground floor. There is a (steep) ramp for wheel chair accessibility. The opstand library and books are upstairs and only accessible with stairs.
We encourage everyone to wear a face mask, do a self test if you have cold-like symptoms and stay home if you have Covid. Face masks and self tests are available

A note on radical accessibility for future Opstand events. We recently moved the Opstand to the upstairs of the space, which makes consulting the books and zines less accessible. Although, the events still happen at the lower floor. At the same time, we have slowly moved towards ignoring Covid. There is not much we can do about the first but there is something that can be done about the second.

We will also keep the space ventilated and we encourage everybody to:
• Do a self test if you can (we also have some in the space)
• Wear a mask if you can
• Do not come in you have symptoms

This might come as surprise for some but the pandemic is not over. To give a few numbers, 10% of infected people develop long term symptoms and Japan had the highest death rate since the pandemic began at the start of last year. This post is about promoting mutual aid and taking care of each other. Including also the people that cannot mask. As anarchists, we pride ourselves in making our own decisions instead of just listening to politicians. Yet, in this topic, we seem to just blindly follow the state policy.

For a deeper discussion on the topic, this zine is a good start https://en.scrappycapydistro.info/zines/pandemic-praxis and here is the reference for the 10% of long covid https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-023-00904-7