All events at 7pm
Thursday, May 8th
Black Study and Catastrophe
Bedour Alagraa and Joshua Myers
A conversation with Bedour Alagraa and Joshua Myers that considers the role of study and thought amid the current crisis. Drawing from Myers’s Of Black Study and Alagraa’s forthcoming The Interminable Catastrophe the conversation explores the ways that Blackness can more than respond to antagonism but reshape how we understand the terms.
Sunday, May 11th
Born In Flames: A Community Political Screening
hosted by For Our Liberation
Join us this Mother’s Day for a screening. Born in Flames tells the story of an America in which a “social-democratic” revolution “succeeds”, and the following nation has yet to resolve the “Woman Question”. Allowing the patriarchy to maintain its grasp on society, and maintain its oppression of the women masses. The film follows a host of comrades and contradictions rapidly sharpen, and a Women’s Liberation Army is theorized.
Wednesday, May 14th
Jennifer Kabat’s “Nightshining is a book of belonging, belief, care, and legacy. Jennifer Kabat writes powerfully against narratives of progress, without abandoning wonder, passion, or possibility. By unpacking her own history, she asks what inheritance means on both big and small scales, prompting us to question long-held belief systems. In this catastrophic time, what must we continue to hold dear, of ourselves and the planet? What must we learn to do without, rupture, destroy? This book is intimate yet vast—meticulous and monumental.”—Elvia Wilk, author of Death by Landscape
Tuesday, May 27th
Sarah Aziza The Hollow Half
“Excruciating, to live in a nation, a culture, a moment in which one must continuously insist upon their own humanity and the humanity of those they love. And yet, so many of history’s greatest writers—from Darwish to Morrison—have taken up this project, fractalling shards of unprecedented experience into something as vital, precious, undeniable, as life itself. Sarah Aziza sings herself into that chorus with clarity and tenderness, writing, ‘Palestine: an orientation toward a life that names, and holds open, the ruptures loving makes.’ The Hollow Half is inventive, propulsive testimony, a lush love letter to a place, a people, and the resilience of memory.” —Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!
Thursday, May 29th
Cops Out of the Art World zine launch
Join the Art Workers’ Inquiry to celebrate the launch of their new zine Cops Out of the Art World. This publication gathers research on the links between arts institutions and policing by art workers committed to abolition. The launch will include readings from contributors, followed by the opportunity to join in an inquiry investigating strategies to organize against deportation.