The Feminist Duration Reading Group contributed to the library of Mundos Habitables (liveable worlds), a physical reading room in Lima, Peru (sala de lectura) and a digital platform.

The FDRG contribution takes the form of a Repertoire of readings drawn from texts that have inspired and sustained the group across meetings held over ten years. Selections, introductions and annotations were made by nine contributors to the FDRG programme: from early participants and Working Group members who helped to shape the group’s trajectory, to occasional participants, and long-running collaborators.

In some cases, contributors took the invitation to speak back to authors whose work has been inspiring and influential, but whose recent views and previous critical oversights they now wish to challenge and take a distance from.

Selections were made by Giulia Casalini, Maddy Costa, Kezia Davies, Lucia Farinati, Sabrina Fuller, Barbara Mahlknecht, Gabby Moser, Sara Paiola, and Helena Reckitt.

FDRG REPERTOIRE FOR MUNDOS HABITABLES (LIVEABLE WORLDS)

adrienne maree brown, ‘FRACTALS: the relationship between small and large’ in Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, 2017
Recommended by Giulia Casalini
FDRG Event: Letters to the Future, January 2023, Organised by Maddy Costa, Diana Damian, Mary Patterson

adrienne maree brown and Cara Page, ‘The Legacy of Uses of the Erotic,’ in Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy), 2019
Recommended by Kezia Davies
FDRG Event: The Uses of the Erotic and its Legacies, December 2019, Organised by Kezia Davies

Adriana Cavarero, ‘On the Outskirts of Milan,’ 1997

Recommended and commented on by Lucia Farinati
FDRG Events:
- Nothing Worth Doing is Done Alone, January 2021 , produced by Sabrina Fuller, Helena Reckitt
- Adriana Cavarero, November, 2015, organised by Lucia Farinati

Adriana Cavarero with Elisabetta Bertolino,’ Beyond Ontology and Sexual Difference: An Interview with the Italian Feminist Philosopher Adriana Cavarero,’ differences Journal, 2008
Recommended by Sara Paiola
FDRG Session: Italian Feminisms and the Practice of Entrustment, Nov 2, 2017,  ‘Italian Feminisms and the Practice of Entrustment, organised by Sara Paiola and Lucia Farinati

Adriana Cavarero, ‘On the Outskirts of Milan,’  1997, in Relating Narratives: Storytelling & Selfhood (first published in 1997, in Italian, English translation 2000)
Recommended by and commented on by Lucia Farinati
FDRG Event: Adriana Cavarero, November, 2015, organised by Lucia Farinati

Eli Clare, Stones in My Pockets, Stones in My Heart, 2015
Suggested by Helena Reckitt
FDRG Event: Masculinities: Eli Clare, Stones in my pockets, stones in my heart, organised by Helena Reckitt, June 20, 2020

Leopoldina Fortunati, The Arcane of Reproduction: Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital (1981; trans 1995) 
Suggested by Barbara Mahlknecht 
FDRG Event: Between Militant Demand and Creative Refusal: Moments of the Wages for Housework Campaign, June 2024, organised by Barbara Mahlknecht with Leopoldina Fortunati

Jo Freeman,‘The Tyranny of Structurelessness,’ 1972
Suggested by Maddy Costa for the Department of Feminist Conversations
FDRG Event: Reading Conflict, Reading Solidarity, Feb 2025, organised by Katrin Lock and Helena Reckitt
Inspiration for talk by Helena Reckitt and Gabrielle Moser, ‘The Tyranny of Structurelessness,’ about FDRG and Emilia-Amalia, College Art Association and OnCurating, February 2024

Johanna Hedva, ‘Sick Woman Theory,’ 2020 (based on original 2016 essay)
Suggested by Sabrina Fuller, Kezia Davies, Helena Reckitt & Maddy Costa
FDRG Events:
- What Do We Mean When We Talk About Care? March 2024, organised by Beth Bramich, Katrin Lock, and Helena Reckitt, with guest artist Leah Clements
- Collectivity and Care, May 2023, organised by Sabrina Fuller, Taey Iohe, Helena Reckitt, and Dot Zhihan Jia

Marie Elizabeth Johnson, ‘Kvennafridagurinn,’ in Women in Iceland, 1984
Suggested by Sara Paiola
FDRG Event: Icelandic Women’s Strike of 24th October 1975, November 2016, organised by Lynne Friedli and Valeria Graziano

Jamaica Kincaid, Jamaica Kincaid: My Garden (book), July 2023 
Suggested by Sabrina Fuller
FDRG Event: Jamaica Kincaid: My Garden (book), 23 Jul 2022, Organised by Sabrina Fuller and Mariana Lemos, with the support of Angelica Bolletinari and Helena Reckitt

Carla Lonzi, ‘Let’s Spit on Hegel,’ 1970
Suggested by Helena Reckitt
FDRG Event: Carla Lonzi, Antonella Nappi and La Libreria delle donne di Milano/Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective, March 2015, organised by Helena Reckitt

Lea Melandri, Love and Violence: The Vexatious Factors of Civilization. 2011, English translation 2019
Recommended by Sara Paiola
FDRG Event: Lea Melandri, Love and Violence, March 2018, organised by Sara Paiola

Lea Melandri ‘Loving Mothers: Prisoners of a Dream,’ in Love and Violence: The Vexatious Factors of Civilization, 2011, English translation 2019
Suggested by Sara Paiola
FDRG Event: Lea Melandri, Love and Violence, March 2018, organised by Sara Paiola

Milan Women’s Bookstore collective, ‘The Practice of Doing,’ in Sexual Difference: A Theory of Social- Symbolic Practice, trans. Patricia Cicogna and Teresa de Lauretis, 1987
Suggested by Sabrina Fuller & Helena Reckitt
FDRG Events:
- Nothing Worth Doing is Done Alone, January 2021, produced by Sabrina Fuller and Helena Reckitt
- Feminist Readings, Hypatia Trust, Jan 2019, organised by Giulia Antonioli, Sabrina Fuller and Helena Reckitt
- Women Acting Collectively, June 2018, organised by Sabrina Fuller
- The Feminist Practice of Affidamento (Entrustment), April 2018, organised by Helena Reckitt
- Italian Feminisms and the Practice of Entrustment, Nov 2017, organised by Angelica Bollettinari, Sabrina Fuller, Roisin O’Sullivan and Helena Reckitt  
- Libreria della Donne di Milano (Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective), August 2016, organised by Helena Reckitt

Pauline Oliveros, Tuning Meditation
Suggested by Helena Reckitt
FDRG Event: Unbecoming Chorus, July 2025, organised by Tatiana Bogacheva, Anna Bunting-Branch, Jane Frances Dunlop, Catherine Grant, Athina Petsou, Helena Reckitt, Trish Scott, E. Scourti, and Ana Vicente, in dialogue with Beth Bramich and the Feminist Duration Reading Group's Auto Collective

Tabita Rezaire, ‘Decolonial Healing: In Defence of Spiritual Technologies,’ 2019
Suggested by Helena Reckitt
FDRG Events:
- Collectivity and Care, May 2023, organised by Sabrina Fuller, Taey Iohe, Helena Reckitt, and Dot Zhihan Jia
- What Do We Mean When We Talk About Care? March 2024, organised by Beth Bramich, Katrin Lock and Helena Reckitt, with guest artist Leah Clements

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, 2017
Suggested by Sabrina Fuller
FDRG Events: three online readings in October and November 2023, organised by Taey Iohe

Trinh T. Minh-ha, ‘Grandma's Story,’ in Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism, 1989
Suggested by Helena Reckitt
FDRG Events:
- Writing Yourself In: FDRG in Concrete Garden: Imagining Worlds, February 2025, organised by Beth Bramich, Sabrina Fuller, Taey Iohe, Katrin Lock, Helena Reckitt, and Dot Zhihan Jia
- Trinh T Minh-ha on Storytelling and Postcoloniality, P2,  2021, organised by Dot Zhihan Jia with the support of Beth Bramich, Sabrina Fuller, and Taey Iohe
- On Friendship and Feminist Organising, January 2021, produced by Sabrina Fuller and Helena Reckitt

Kyla Wazana Tomkins, ‘We Aren’t Here To Learn What We Already Know,’ 2016
Suggested by Gabby Moser
FDRG Event:  Questioning Through Writing, May 2017, organised by Gabby Moser

Mundos habitables is an initiative for practices, textures, resources, and imaginaries of accompaniment, devised by Lima-based curator Susie Quillinan. The platform includes contributions and experiments from artists, curators, activists, and other researchers. It seeks to create resources for noticing, narrating, and cultivating practices of multispecies accompaniment towards more liveable worlds.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39516