Preserve The Feminist Lecture Program Archive

Aim

Support the preservation, curation and public access of a unique archive of hundreds of feminist lectures from around the world.

Over the last six years, The Feminist Lecture Program has grown into one of the world’s only weekly online feminist lecture series.

Since 2020, we have hosted hundreds of lectures with artists, writers, academics, activists, researchers, curators and practitioners from all over the world, covering everything from feminist art history, witchcraft, ecology and medicine to disability studies, queer theory, literature, science, politics, philosophy and cultural criticism.

What began as a small live lecture program has become something much larger: a vast, independent feminist knowledge archive.

As we have begun developing The FLP Archive, we have recently uncovered almost 90 additional lectures from the last four to five years that have not yet been processed, preserved or published.

This discovery has made the scale of the project much larger than we first realised.

But this is not simply a matter of uploading videos.

Each lecture needs to be treated as an archive entry in its own right. Speakers need to be contacted. Permissions and signed agreements need to be secured. Biographies, images and contextual materials need to be gathered. Recordings need to be edited. Trailers need to be created. Subtitles and access materials need to be produced where possible. Lecture descriptions need to be researched and written. Metadata needs to be created. Talks need to be organised into themes, playlists and curated pathways so that people can actually explore and learn from the archive.

We are launching this crowdfunder to help us protect that work, pay people properly for the labour involved, and make this significant body of feminist educational material publicly accessible.

This is not just about saving old recordings.

It is about preserving six years of feminist public education.

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WHY THIS MATTERS

Feminist knowledge is too often locked behind university paywalls, expensive courses, academic language or institutions that many people cannot access.

The Feminist Lecture Program was created to offer another way in.

Our lectures are online, pay what you can, and open to anyone with curiosity and an internet connection. You do not need a degree. You do not need to know all the jargon. You do not need to have read all the “right” books before you arrive.

You just need a desire to learn.

Over the last six years, thousands of people have joined us to think together about bodies, power, history, gender, care, violence, labour, ecology, art, illness, pleasure, myth, politics and culture.

These conversations matter.

They matter because feminist education gives us tools for understanding the world we are living in. They matter because people deserve access to rigorous, generous and politically engaged learning outside traditional academic structures. They matter because so much of this knowledge is urgent, transformative and still far too difficult to access.

The FLP Archive is our way of making sure that the lectures, conversations and resources we have built together do not disappear.

WHAT WE ARE BUILDING

We are building The FLP Archive: a growing digital library of past lectures, reading lists and educational resources.

The archive will allow people to rent and watch selected past lectures on demand, follow their own curiosity, revisit talks they missed, and build their own feminist education over time.

But we do not want the archive to become a dumping ground for old videos. We want it to be curated, searchable and meaningful: a living feminist educational resource that people can explore through themes, subjects, speakers, reading lists and pathways.

The archive is for:

• students who want feminist teaching beyond their course curriculum
• artists looking for research, context and inspiration
• teachers and lecturers looking for resources
• researchers and writers following specific subjects
• people outside universities who still want access to serious feminist education
• disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent or geographically isolated learners who need flexible access
• anyone who wants to understand the world differently

We want the archive to become a place where past lectures can keep circulating, teaching, inspiring and connecting people.

WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP

FLP is entirely self-funded.

We have kept our live lectures pay what you can because accessibility is at the heart of what we do. But that also means the project has always run on extremely limited resources.

Archiving is slow, careful and labour-intensive work.

For every lecture, we need to contact the speaker, confirm permissions, gather or update their biography, source images and contextual materials, edit the recording, create a trailer, write the archive copy, produce subtitles or access materials where possible, build the metadata, organise the lecture into relevant themes and playlists, quality check the finished entry, publish it, and then promote it so that audiences can actually find it.

This is essential work, but it is also work that takes time, skill and care. We want to do it properly, and we want to pay the people doing it.

Your support will help us preserve, process and publish almost 90 additional lectures from the FLP back-catalogue, many of which have never been available on demand before.

Without this funding, a significant body of feminist educational material will remain hidden in folders, drives and ageing storage systems, rather than becoming part of a public archive that people can actually use.

WHAT THE MONEY WILL PAY FOR

Funds raised through this campaign will go directly towards the labour and infrastructure needed to preserve and expand the FLP Archive.

This includes:

• speaker liaison and permissions
• signed agreements and rights administration
• editing and preparing lecture recordings
• creating trailers and promotional materials
• producing subtitles and access materials where possible
• uploading and organising archive content
• researching and writing archive descriptions
• gathering and preserving reading lists
• checking lecturer biographies and lecture details
• organising lectures into themes, playlists and curated pathways
• quality checking finished archive entries
• backing up and safely storing files
• platform and hosting costs
• admin, coordination and project management
• paying the FLP team properly for archive labour

Our immediate goal is to preserve, process and publish almost 90 additional FLP lectures.

This would make a huge difference to the future of the project, allowing years of feminist educational work to become accessible again rather than sitting unseen in folders, drives and expiring video storage.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

If FLP has ever helped you understand something differently, introduced you to a new writer, artist or idea, supported your research, kept you company, changed your practice, or made feminist education feel more accessible, please consider supporting this campaign.

You can help by:

• making a donation
• sharing the crowdfunder
• sending it to friends, students, colleagues or institutions
• renting lectures from the existing archive
• coming to a live FLP lecture
• telling people why this work matters

Every donation, however small, helps us keep this knowledge alive and accessible.

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The Feminist Lecture Program has always been built collectively: through lecturers, audiences, artists, researchers, readers, students, friends, volunteers and everyone who has ever bought a ticket, asked a question, shared a lecture or come back on a Monday night.

This archive belongs to that community.

With your help, we can preserve it, expand it, and make sure these lectures continue to reach the people who need them.

Thank you so much for supporting FLP.

With love and solidarity,

Luisa-Maria MacCormack
Founder & Director
The Feminist Lecture Program

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 3rd August 2026 at 11:59pm