Feminist Autonomous Centre for research

The Feminist Autonomous Centre for research (FAC) is a community-based organisation based in Athens, Greece. It describes itself as a space for learning, reflection, collaboration, support, exchange, knowledge production, political interventions, and what it calls 'trouble-making'. Its work is explicitly transnational, operating 'across and against nation-state and continental borders, disciplinary boundaries, and institutional barriers'. FAC positions itself within the feminist roots of autonomous knowledge production, challenging what counts as legitimate knowledge and who is granted the right to produce and receive it. Its stated feminisms are queer, trans, intersectional, antiracist, anti-authoritarian, plural, reflexive, and internally contested. The centre organises its research agenda around six areas: Sexualities and Genders: Queer and Transfeminist Perspectives; Intersectionality, Abolition, and Transformative Justice; Feminist No Borders Struggles; Art as Research: Visual, Performative, and Documentary Knowledges; Space: Radical Perspectives on Urban Space and Design; and Bodies In Movements: Embodied Knowledges, Collective Care, and Healing Practices. FAC runs a recurring Transfeminist No Borders Summer School; the seventh annual edition, titled 'Defiant Lives/Vite Sconfinanti', was scheduled for 11–15 June 2025 in Palermo, with an open call for participants in English and Italian. It also maintains a Feminist Library that is open to the public by appointment, and an open-access feminist micro-publishing project called FAC press, whose recent title is '45 boxes' by Anna Apostolidou, available in PDF and EPUB. Some activities are supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. FAC also participates in the project RESIST: Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics. As a community-based organisation rather than a conventional commercial enterprise, FAC operates in the space of civil society, research, and activist knowledge production. Its outputs include summer schools, a library, publications, and collaborative research projects, and it works with partners and funders across Europe and beyond.

The Feminist Autonomous Centre for research (FAC) is a community-based organisation from Athens, Greece. It presents itself as a space for learning, reflection, collaboration, support, exchange, knowledge production, political interventions, and trouble-making. Its founding premise is a return to the feminist roots of autonomous knowledge production, challenging what counts as legitimate knowledge and who is granted the right to produce and receive it. FAC describes its feminisms as queer, trans, intersectional, antiracist, anti-authoritarian, always plural, reflexive, and internally contested, and it works across and against nation-state and continental borders, disciplinary boundaries, and institutional barriers. Over time FAC has built a research agenda organised around six areas: Sexualities and Genders: Queer and Transfeminist Perspectives; Intersectionality, Abolition, and Transformative Justice; Feminist No Borders Struggles; Art as Research: Visual, Performative, and Documentary Knowledges; Space: Radical Perspectives on Urban Space and Design; and Bodies In Movements: Embodied Knowledges, Collective Care, and Healing Practices. Among its recurring activities is the annual Transfeminist No Borders Summer School. The seventh edition, titled 'Defiant Lives/Vite Sconfinanti', was announced for 11–15 June 2025 in Palermo, with an open call for participants in English and Italian and an expression-of-interest deadline of 31 January 2025. FAC also operates a Feminist Library that is open to the public by appointment, and FAC press, an open-access feminist micro-publishing project whose recent book is '45 boxes' by Anna Apostolidou, available in PDF and EPUB. Some of these activities are supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. FAC is also involved in the project RESIST: Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics.

• Seventh annual Transfeminist No Borders Summer School 'Defiant Lives/Vite Sconfinanti' announced for 11–15 June 2025 in Palermo, with open call deadline 31 January 2025.

• Feminist Library opened to the public by appointment.

• FAC press published '45 boxes' by Anna Apostolidou in PDF and EPUB.

Autonomous, transnational, queer and transfeminist knowledge production outside institutional and nation-state frameworks.

• Transfeminist No Borders Summer School

  Annual summer school; seventh edition 'Defiant Lives/Vite Sconfinanti' scheduled 11–15 June 2025 in Palermo.

• Feminist Library

  Publicly accessible library open by appointment.

• FAC press

  Open-access feminist micro-publishing project; recent title '45 boxes' by Anna Apostolidou.

• RESIST project

  Project on Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics.

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