About

What is Feminise Politics Now?

Feminise Politics Now! (FPN) is a movement infrastructure project equipping grassroots organisations in Britain & Europe to develop effective strategies and tools to take on the challenges of the next decade – examining not just what we’re fighting for, but how we get there.

We produce courses, events, resources and networks helping you reorient your processes, projects and internal culture towards more sustainable, effective longer term organising – and using a power-sharing, feminist lens. We examine key strategies and principles from cooperation to coalition-building, leadership to collective care, participation and democracy, and anti-oppression.

What we Offer

Our Vision

Feminise Politics Now! isn’t just a feminist project – it’s for anyone committed to longer-term, transformative change, with a focus on how to create organisations and spaces able to do this.

What have we achieved?

Since forming as an

• Run three eight-week courses with thirty organisations
• Run 10 events, including an organising weekend with 60 organisations and standalone workshops at festivals
• Built a network of over 400 members, supporting each other to implement ongoing change in their organisations
• Produced a collectively written resource

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Our Origins and Values

We are inspired by different movements geared towards longer-term movement sustainability and transformative change, including the European Municipalist ‘Fearless Cities’ movement, and Feminise Politics Now! booklet (from where we take our name!), Emergent Strategy, and work dismantling White Supremacy Culture. We:

• Are committed to power-sharing – we believe that power needs to be built and held accountable by a diverse array of groups for our movements to be at their most powerful
• Are pre-figurative – where we are going cannot be divorced from how we get there – we believe in the need to emulate the culture we are trying to create
• Are contradictory – we recognise we are part of and reproduce the systems and processes we are trying to change
• Are not afraid of conflict (it’s an opportunity, not a threat!)
• Believe everyone has something to contribute – we need to grow our movements and build wider layers of leaders – so we need to find ways to practise radical accessibility and make our organising regenerative
• Believe we are part of a ‘Movement Ecology’ – we are not solo agents but part of a wider eco-system
• Are collaborative and iterative – we are at our most powerful when we work together, and we learn best from the lessons of our peers. No one is the expert but we each contain small pieces of the puzzle
• Want to achieve our organisational goals! Committing to the above isn’t a ‘nice thing to do’ – it’s a more sustainable strategic way to organise. We need to rethink how we see success and acknowledge there are no quick fixes.