BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20210225T170248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210325T191035Z UID:31224-1616698800-1616704200@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Disturbing the Body\, with Abi Hynes and Irenosen Okojie DESCRIPTION:Three feminist bookshops have joined forces with Boudicca Press to celebrate ​Disturbing The Body​\, a subversive collection of speculative memoir about misbehaving bodies. \n\n\n\nDisturbing The Body Body ​will launch across three nights\, with​ Lighthouse\, Five Leaves ​and Housmans​ bookshops each hosting a new pairing of writers. \n\n\n\nThe ambitious three-part launch reflects the creativity and character of radical bookshops and the scope of this phenomenal anthology. Taking readers on a bookish journey the length of the country\, it exemplifies theways indies have rallied for each other and for independent presses during the pandemic. \n\n\n\nThe three-part launch picks out common threads from the book to give you the following: \n\n\n\n23rd March with Lighthouse (Edinburgh): Chikọdili Emelumadu and Verity Holloway focus on using genre (horror) to explore women’s bodily experiences. Tickets for this event here. \n\n\n\n24th with Five Leaves (Nottingham): Louise Kenward and Laura Elliott\, on storytelling that explores health\, medicine and disability. Tickets for this event here. \n\n\n\n25th Housmans (London): Irenosen Okojie and Abi Hynes draw on their stories\, the uncanny and fantastical\, to explore feminism and body politics. For tickets for this event\, please see below. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nAbi Hynes is a drama and fiction writer based in Manchester. Her plays have been staged in venues across the UK\, and she is currently working on original audio drama and TV projects. Her short stories have been widely published\, most recently in Black Static\, Lucent Dreaming and Neon Magazine\, and she was shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Novella-in-Flash Award in 2018. She won the Cambridge Short Story Prize in 2020.Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British writer. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Observer\, The Guardian\, the BBC and the Huffington Post\, amongst other publications. Her short story collection Speak Gigantular\, published by Jacaranda Books\, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize\, the Jhalak Prize\, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her new collection of stories\, Nudibranch published by Little Brown’s Dialogue Books\, was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. She is the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for Fiction for her story\, ‘Grace Jones’. www.irenosenokojie.com Twitter: @IrenosenOkojieAbout Boudicca PressBoudicca Press is an independent publisher who celebrates the strength\, courage and literary talents of women. They publish weird\, literary and relationship fiction by women in the UK. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-disturbing-the-body-with-abi-hynes-and-irenosen-okojie/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Feminist event,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DisturbingThe-BodyBanner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210114T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210114T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20201219T151141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210323T115932Z UID:27094-1610650800-1610656200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch - Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher with Matt Colquhoun and James Butler [online event] DESCRIPTION:Join Matt Colquhoun and James Butler as they examine the crucial legacy of Mark Fisher\, to celebrate the publication of Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher\, edited by Colquhoun.\n\nWhen we lost Mark Fisher in 2017\, we lost one of our most exciting and vital critics of contemporary politics and culture. Providing lucid and excoriating critiques on subjects ranging from Dido to Drake; The Fall to James Blake; Breaking Bad to Benefits Street\, he was moved by the emancipatory possibilities of popular culture. In publishing\, he worked to spread radical ideas and provide a generation of new writers with a platform. Blogging as ‘k-punk’\, he analysed everyday experiences of precarity\, depression\, and cultural malaise as profoundly political — and therefore changeable. Mark tirelessly sought alternatives to the world that we’ve been given\, away from the destructive individualism of the present and towards a practical communitarian future.\n\nFor the first time\, Postcapitalist Desire reveals Mark Fisher in his element — the classroom — outlining a project that Fisher’s death left so bittersweetly unfinished.\n\nBeginning with that most fundamental of questions — “Do we really want what we say we want?” — Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism\, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past\, present\, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking\, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness\, and the cultural and political implications of doing so.\n\nFor Fisher\, this process of consciousness raising was always\, fundamentally\, psychedelic — just not in the way that we might think…\n\nSpeakers\n\nMatt Colquhoun is a writer and photographer from Hull\, East Yorkshire. He is the author of Egress: On Mourning\, Melancholy and Mark Fisher and blogs at xenogothic.com.\n\nJames Butler is the co-founded Novara Media and presents Novara FM on Resonance 104.4\, as well as being a contributor to the LRB and others.\n\nPlease read:\n\nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com with a UK address. Postcapitalist Desire is published on 12 Jan 2021.\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/postcapitalist-desire-the-final-lectures-of-mark-fisher-with-matt-colquhoun-and-james-butler/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/post-cap.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201111T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201111T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20201019T152300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201105T151229Z UID:15017-1605121200-1605126600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Online Book Launch: "The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State" with Robb Johnson and Louise Regan DESCRIPTION:COVID has dramatically confirmed that the current condition of state education is not fit for purpose. Join educators and organizers Robb Johnson and Louise Regan to discuss how 30 years of “education reform” have created a dysfunctional mass education system that ruthlessly prioritises the agenda of the neo-liberal state over the needs of children. Robb Johnson’s book The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State is part memoir and polemic and a celebration of children’s innate desire to learn\, share\, cooperate\, and play\, as well as a critique of bureaucratic interference. The book lays out how to create democratic spaces where kids can grow\, not up\, not old\, but as individuals. \nAbout The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State \nThere once was a time when teachers and communities were able to exercise democratic control over their schools. Now that power has been taken away\, both centralised and privatised\, under the guise of “reform.” There is a forgotten history of the time before reform\, and within it a bright horizon is visible\, reachable only if educators and society at large can learn the lessons of the past. \nRobb Johnson entered the classroom as a new teacher in the 1980s and has spent a lifetime alongside his pupils encouraging both creativity and a healthy distrust of authority. Johnson details how we ended up with the contemporary mass education systems and why they continually fail to give children what they need. Combining practical experience as a teacher with detailed pedagogical knowledge\, and a characteristic playful style\, Johnson is both court chronicler and jester\, imparting information and creatively admonishing the self-important figureheads of the reform agenda. \nThis book considers how schools and education relate to the wider society in which they are located and how they relate to the particular needs and abilities of the people who experience them. It shows that schools and education are contested spaces that need to be reclaimed from the state\, and turned into places where people can grow\, not up\, not old\, but as individuals. It offers alternative ways of running classrooms\, schools\, and perhaps even society. \nPraise: \n“I have rarely seen a book that is so embedded in what education is for and that then directs the reader to how to pursue the goals\, in practice and at all levels of school infrastructure so that the way schools are structured adds to the goodness of society.”\n—Marcelo Staricoff\, author of Start Thinking\, fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching\, and former headteacher \n“The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State by Robb Johnson shows the stark reality of the current situation for education. Education is at a crossroads\, and this book comes at an important time raising awareness and exposing the flaws in our current system. Read this\, and then join the campaign to fight for a fairer\, fully funded\, comprehensive education system!”\n—Louise Regan\, ex-president of National Education Union (UK) \n“The goals of the school systems in most countries have generally not had nothing to do with producing happy\, creative\, self-confident\, autonomous children who will grow up to become happy\, creative\, self-confident\, autonomous adults. But since schooling become mandatory in industrialized societies like the UK and the US\, the schools have been an ideological battleground between those who want to produce obedient workers and soldiers\, and those\, like Robb Johnson\, who would prefer to see a liberated humanity consisting of whole people\, who are treated as such from birth\, by their parents\, by the schools\, and all other social\, political\, and economic institutions. This book is a brilliant crash course in the roots of the problem\, the devastation that has been done since the post-Thatcher/Reagan austerity budgets and a return to Victorian (‘family‘) values\, and how we might address all of these complex challenges. And it is as captivating a read as any good memoir\, because that’s exactly what it is. Robb Johnson lived through\, and taught through\, the backlash\, working as a school teacher from 1980 until very recently.”\n—David Rovics\, musician and author of Sing for Your Supper: A DIY Guide to Playing Music\, Writing Songs\, and Booking Your Own Gigs \nAbout the Speakers: \nRobb Johnson was born in 1955\, studied English lit at Sussex University\, trained as a teacher\, and then did an MA in English literature at Manchester University. He has worked as a classroom teacher by day and a songwriter by night since 1980. As a songwriter\, he has received widespread critical acclaim. Robb has written songbooks; edited a book of stories\, Journeys Down Denbigh Road\, for use with young children in school assemblies; edited A Navigator’s Tale\, a book collecting his father’s World War II memoir and poetry; and contributed regularly to the music magazine RNR. \nLouise Regan is the ex-president of National Education Union (UK). \nPlease note that this event will be held online via Zoom. You will be emailed a Zoom invitation on the day of the event.  \n**Please email the shop if you are unable to pay the entry price** \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-the-peoples-republic-of-neverland-the-child-versus-the-state-with-robb-johnson-and-louise-regan/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-Peoples-Republic-of-Neverland-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200406T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200406T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20200316T105047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T170135Z UID:11997-1586199600-1586205000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: On Relationships ***POSTPONED*** DESCRIPTION:  \nRelationships are important. Whether they are with others or ourselves\, they shape us\, they move us\, they empower us and they break our hearts. 3 of Cups Press launches their latest anthology\, On Relationships\, a collection of prose\, poetry and art which explores the importance and power of all relationships. \nJoin us on the 6 of April to launch On Relationships with readings from Vanessa Pelz-Sharpe\, Melissa Gitari and Isha Karki. \n\n\nFounded in 2017\, 3 of Cups Press is a small press\, focusing on inclusive publishing. We share a vision for a more equal\, more peaceful\, more inclusive world and we are dedicated to providing a platform for voices otherwise unheard in the mainstream. We are a team of women and non-binary folk\, and are disability-led. \nOur first project is a series of anthologies\, starting with On Anxiety\, published in January 2018\, and On Bodies\, published in October 2018. Our third\, On Relationships\, published February 2020. These anthologies provide a platform for writers and artists and a starting point on how to tackle issues such as mental health\, our relationships with our bodies\, political activism and more. \nWe believe that art and literature can be activism. In pursuit of a more fair\, more equal world\, all of our contributors are paid for their work. \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-on-relationships/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ONRELATION.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200306T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200306T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20200215T170532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200215T170532Z UID:11017-1583521200-1583526600@housmans.com SUMMARY:'A Nuclear Refrain: emotion\, empire and the democratic potential of protest' with Kelvin Mason\, Philip Johnstone and Lotte Reimer DESCRIPTION:In 2020\, the hands of the Doomsday Clock moved closer than ever to global destruction: humanity has just 100 seconds left to take action. While climate change and cyber-warfare grab more headlines\, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists forcibly reminded us that the nuclear arms race is also running out of control. \nA Nuclear Refrain enlivens the discourse on nuclear deterrence\, mutually assured destruction (MAD) and Trident replacement. The debate on nuclear weapons in the UK is entrenched: perpetual strategic\, moral and economic arguments clash like bloodied heads banging against brick walls. But how is everyday life emotionally shaped by nuclear weapons\, the specter and menace of the mushroom cloud? Why\, deep down\, is the UK determined to remain one of only a handful of official nuclear weapons states? What might politics look like if we stepped out of the cold\, dark shadow of nuclear deterrence? \nA Nuclear Refrain was conceived through scholar-activist participation in a Trident Ploughshares campaign of direct action against nuclear weapons in the UK. During an academic seminar blockade at AWE Burghfield in 2017\, the authors were viscerally struck by the emotional\, political and cultural constraints imposed by living in a nuclear weapons state. Honouring the art and social justice commitment of Charles Dickens\, and casting a fresh light on the issues for informed readers as well as newcomers to the MAD world\, A Nuclear Refrain is presented in the dramaticform of A Christmas Carol. Pro-Trident MP the Right Honourable Roger C. Bezeeneos is confronted by the atomic ghosts of the past\, present and future on a tempestuous journey that will change his mind and all of our lives forever. Or will it? \nBook launch with\nKelvin Mason\, para-academic\nPhilip Johnstone\, University of Sussex\nLotte Reimer\, Campaign Choirs Network \nFREE ENTRY \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/a-nuclear-refrain-emotion-empire-and-the-democratic-potential-of-protest-with-kelvin-mason-philip-johnstone-and-lotte-reimer/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/191002nuclearrefrain-cover-web-front.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200228T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200228T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20200224T182220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T182220Z UID:11389-1582916400-1582921800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Stormlight Book Launch with Jan Woolf DESCRIPTION:Riversmeet Press invites you to the Housmans launch of Stormlight by Jan Woolf \nStories – short and long- setting ordinary people against big themes; love\, war\, loss\, contemporary politics and the search for fulfilment. Like the author’s first collection Fugues on a Funny Bone they are funny\, witty and acerbic as well as serious. \nStormlight includes her Royal Court short play You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know examining the Blair legacy. Stories range from a Rambler’s Christmas day walk\, a childless senior sneaking into a mothers’ and babies’ only film\, a bitter family argument over the EU referendum\, management consultant wonkery\, and the down but not quite out of homeless street life. All are rooted in experience and activism. \nThe evenings readings will include Jan’s short play ‘You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know’ first performed at the Royal Court. Guest actors will include Alan Franks. \nWine included. Cash sales only of Stormlight on the night. \n***FREE EVENT*** \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/stormlight-book-launch-with-jan-woolf/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/jan-woolf.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191128T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191128T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20191119T174155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191119T174155Z UID:6953-1574967600-1574971200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Autonomy Now presents: 'Advertising Shits in Your Head' & 'Protest Stencil' launch DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening to celebrate the launch of Advertising Shits in Your Head (PM Press) and Protest Stencil (Dog Section Press). Find out more about subverting advertising\, including how to hack advertising spaces and run your own subvertising campaigns. \nAdvertising Shits in Your Head \n“Advertising Shits in Your Head provides a history of the practice (going back to the early ‘70s)\, alarming research and theory on the effects of the industry\, advice about how to take part (including legal information) as well as several stunning case studies. This is essential reading for all who want to fight back against the ‘most powerful and sustained system of propaganda in human history.’“ \n—Jamie Kelsey-Fry\, New Internationalist \nhttps://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=967 \n  \n \nProtest Stencil: \n“Whether it’s the designs\, the politics or the cheek\, we hope this little pamphlet inspires you. See you on the streets!” \n—Protest Stencil \nhttp://dogsection.org/press/protest-stencil/ \n  \n  \nFREE ENTRY \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/autonomy-now-presents-advertising-shits-in-your-head-protest-stencil-launch/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Pages-from-Protest-Stencil_WEB-727x1030.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191002T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191002T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20190828T113416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190828T113416Z UID:3342-1570042800-1570046400@housmans.com SUMMARY:'Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined' with JJ Bola DESCRIPTION:What is masculinity? Dominating the world around us\, from Trump’s twitter outbursts to deadly gun violence\, from male suicide rates to incels on Reddit and 4chan\, masculinity is perceived to be ‘toxic’\, ‘fragile’ and ‘in crisis’. \nIn Mask Off\, JJ Bola exposes masculinity as a performance that men are socially conditioned into. Using examples of non-Western cultural traditions\, music and sport\, he shines light on historical narratives around manhood\, debunking popular myths along the way. He explores how LGBTQ men\, men of colour\, and male refugees experience masculinity in diverse ways\, revealing its fluidity\, how it’s strengthened and weakened by different political contexts\, such as the patriarchy or the far-right\, and perceived differently by those around them. \nAt the heart of love and sex\, the political stage\, competitive sports\, gang culture\, and mental health issues\, lies masculinity: Mask Off is an urgent call to unravel masculinity and redefine it. \nJJ Bola is a writer\, poet and educator. He is the author of the novel No Place to Call Home (2017)\, as well as three poetry collections. He is one of the winners of the 2017 Spread the Word Flight 1000 Associates Prize. \n‘An uncompromising\, heartfelt and completely vital interrogation of this thing we call masculinity’ – Jeffrey Boakye\, author of ‘Black\, Listed: Black British Culture Explored’ \n‘Male privilege\, male violence\, love\, sex and mental health – there is nowhere JJ Bola refuses to go’ – Benjamin Zephaniah \n‘Incisive\, engaging\, powerfully vulnerable\, JJ Bola has given us an urgent and compelling examination of one of society’s most pressing subjects’ – Musa Okwonga \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/mask-off-masculinity-redefined-with-jj-bola/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/JJ-Bola.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191001T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191001T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20190906T140432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190926T133406Z UID:3759-1569956400-1569961800@housmans.com SUMMARY:‘Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown And Social Collapse’ with Andrew Medhurst DESCRIPTION:Roger Hallam is co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and has written a booklet called “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse”\, the print copy of which we will be launching at this event. \nThe booklet outlines how the environmental and climate movements around the world need to come together in order to avert extinction of all life. It goes into detail on using nonviolent civil disobedience as well as other strategies and tactics to make real change happen. \nThe booklet is available as a free download\, and we will also have print copies available \nRoger’s position is that mass civil disobedience is the only way to create meaningful change on the issue. He says “I strongly believe in the tactics and strategies found in my booklet which are currently being ignored by many environmental campaign groups. Additionally\, I outline the concept of citizens assemblies and a new transition movement to inspire people to get started on making the necessary changes happen now\, before governments act. In the conclusion I write\, “The cost of freedom is civic duty.” I strongly believe tactics and strategies found in my booklet are currently being ignored by most environmental campaign groups. I invite them all to read my booklet and get in touch. […] \nMy booklet\, Common Sense for the 21st Century\, isn’t just a theory\, it’s a call to action and details the practicalities which I hope will lead to real change. The political class alone is not going to save us from extinction. Only a new common sense and a genuine rebellion can save us now. I hope you join us!” \n\n\n\n\nThe name of the book is inspired by Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense\, credited as being the spark that ignited the American revolution. When Extinction Rebellion made the ‘Declaration of Rebellion’ in October 2018 it inspired thousands of people to break the law and sit down on the bridges in London in November. Since then Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for the Future have grown exponentially\, along with the reach of Nobel peace prize nominated Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough‘s strong messages to the world. \nAs Roger is currently under arrest\, XR’s Andrew Medhurst will be speaking and taking questions.\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/only-nonviolent-rebellion-can-now-stop-climate-breakdown-and-social-collapse-with-roger-hallam/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Common-Sense-cover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190927T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190927T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20190803T162359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190810T110017Z UID:2433-1569610800-1569614400@housmans.com SUMMARY:FREE EVENT: Friday 27th September - Exhibition/Book Launch - Queer Heroes DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of art\, books and drinks to celebrate the release of Arabelle Sicardi and Sarah Tanat-Jones’ new book Queer Heroes\, a beautifully illustrated collection featuring 52 LGBTQ+ artists\, writers\, innovators\, athletes and activists who have changed the world from ancient times to present day. Published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising\, this extraordinary book will show children that anything is possible. \nSarah will be joining us to paint a brand new mural on one of the shop windows and will have prints for sale. Come along for a chat\, a signed copy of the book and a celebration of queer history in all its wonderfully varied forms. \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/free-event-friday-27th-september-exhibition-book-launch-queer-heroes/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/QUEER-HEROS.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190925T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190925T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20190803T161414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190923T150153Z UID:2416-1569438000-1569441600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani (SOLD OUT) DESCRIPTION:A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work\, scarcity and capitalism \nIn the twenty-first century\, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation\, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment\, is instead the path to a world of liberty\, luxury and happiness—for everyone. Technological advance will reduce the value of commodities—food\, healthcare and housing—towards zero. \nImprovements in renewable energies will make fossil fuels a thing of the past. Asteroids will be mined for essential minerals. Genetic editing and synthetic biology will prolong life\, virtually eliminate disease and provide meat without animals. New horizons beckon. \nIn Fully Automated Luxury Communism\, Aaron Bastani conjures a vision of extraordinary hope\, showing how we move to energy abundance\, feed a world of 9 billion\, overcome work\, transcend the limits of biology\, and establish meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination\, such a society merely heralds the real beginning of history. \nAaron Bastani is co-founder and Senior Editor at Novara Media and has a doctorate from the University of London. His research interests include new media\, social movements and political economy. He has written for Vice\, the Guardian\, the London Review of Books and the New York Times and regularly appears as a commentator on the BBC and Sky News. \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/fully-automated-luxury-communism-a-manifesto-by-aaron-bastani/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/falc.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190821T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190821T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20190711T154057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190711T155300Z UID:1638-1566414000-1566417600@housmans.com SUMMARY:'Different Class: Football\, Fashion and Funk – The Story of Laurie Cunningham' with Dermot Kavanagh DESCRIPTION:Book launch for ‘Different Class: The Story of Laurie Cunningham’. \nAuthor Dermot Kavanagh hosts an illustrated talk on the life of Laurie Cunningham : footballer\, dancer and dandy. \nCunningham blazed a trail for black footballers at a time when racism was rife on the terraces and won over hostile crowds with his mercurial style. \nA glamorous outsider\, he was also a soul boy who danced on the 1970’s Soho funk scene in bespoke suits. \n‘Different Class’ follows his remarkable journey from the streets of Finsbury Park to the world’s most famous football club\, Real Madrid. \nCunningham’s story is not only a football one\, it is a story of London\, race relations and youth culture too. \nTickets available from this link\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/different-class-football-fashion-and-funk-the-story-of-laurie-cunningham-with-dermot-kavanagh/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/DIFFCLASS_B_PBK_PRINTREADY-1-1-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190709T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190709T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20190618T131704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190626T155211Z UID:678-1562698800-1562702400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book launch of ‘Xystus’ My Life Story: A Child Of The Windrush Generation’ with Anne M Jones DESCRIPTION:What happened to the children of the WIndrush men and women who came here in the fifties\, the children who were left behind in the Caribbean then joined their parents later\, as teenagers? \nThis small book gives the first-hand account of one of these children – Xystus Sestus Marcell – in his own words\, who came to East London from St Lucia in 1972. He is  a man who cannot read or write but who knew he had an important story to tell\, so he dictated it and I wrote. \nThe story is a combination of awfulness\, adventure\, and immense courage\, and humour. It also raises many questions about issues around  racism \, early childhood\, and homelessness. \nA  ‘must-read’ ! \nA bargain at only five pounds (to offset costs of publishing) \nAnne M Jones \nFREE ENTRY \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-of-xystus-my-life-story-a-child-of-the-windrush-generation-by-xystus-sestus-marcell/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/windrush.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190705T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190705T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20190611T144728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190611T144728Z UID:590-1562353200-1562358600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Robert Lundquist: After Mozart (Heroin On 5th Street) DESCRIPTION:Housmans and New River Press are extremely proud to present the London launch of Robert Lundquist’s After Mozart (Heroin On 5th Street) – a collection comprising of five decades of work\, previously only available in magazine archives\, anthologies\, and out-of-print chapbooks.  A lost genius\, come and see Lundquist give a very rare London performance. \nSpeakers \nRobert Lundquist was one of the rising stars of the Santa Cruz renaissance. By the early 1970s he was published in the Paris Review\, anthologized in Raymond Carver’s magazine Quarry West\, and listed in Rolling Stone Magazine’s ‘Best 100 American Poets’. This is Lundquist’s first major work. Discover a lost genius in these pages. \nThese poems were written in bursts over five decades. From 1969 to 1973\, from 1980 to 1985\, and from 2014 to 2018. Lundquist has an extraordinarily sensitive voice deeply engaged with the works of García Lorca\, César Vallejo\, Paul Celan\, James Wight\, Wallace Stevens\, and John Ashbery. He addresses themes of love\, loss\, alcoholism\, and emotional pain. He meditates on death\, romance\, and beauty with wild formal experiments and a visceral\, surreal vision that is all his own. \nCentral to his poetry is the changing spirit of Downtown L.A. The poet was raised and has lived his entire life there. His grandmother was a waitress in Union Station and his father an undercover policeman. Some darker chapters are inspired by a stint living next to skid row. The neighbourhoods of DTLA – the automobiles\, diners\, bars\, wildlife\, and characters they contain – are evoked here with a noir melancholy and hallucinatory brilliance. \nMORE POETS TBC \nReviews \nAs a poet\, Lundquist finds an organising myth in water. Water manifests itself as the giver of life\, the bringer of death and the keeper of time\, never taking on just one role and often embodying all three at once. It is a pretty formal move on his part\, considering the experimentation and autonomy of form that otherwise characterise his work. Also\, it is a strikingly consistent vision\, given the five decades behind these poems. \nNevertheless\, it is the many faces and shapes of water that inform his poems: sea water\, shower water and tides; water’s bodily derivatives\, tears and sweat and saliva and blood; its darker derivatives\, waters that drown you\, alcohol or heroin liquefying in a spoon; fermented or sugared water like Jack Daniel’s and Coca Cola. Lundquist is constantly seeking it\, he looks for it everywhere and he sees it in everything. \nThe ancient practice of looking for a source of water in unlikely places is known as water divination\, or water witching. The one who does it is called a dowser. And Lundquist is skilful dowser in these poems. He conducts his water witching among the stony buildings\, the cracked pavements\, the smoggy air of his neighbourhood\, with patience and poetic steadiness. \nMersiha Bruncevic\, 3AM Magazine \n  \nTickets available here\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/robert-lundquist-after-mozart-heroin-on-5th-street/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/robertlundquistcover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190626T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190626T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20190611T142700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190611T143158Z UID:573-1561575600-1561581000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Waiting for the Revolution: The British Far Left from 1956 DESCRIPTION:An attempt to understand and document the traditions and issues that have preoccupied leftist groups\, activists and struggles in the UK since 1956. \nWaiting for the revolution is a volume of essays examining the diverse currents of British left-wing politics from 1956 to the present day. The book is designed to complement the previous volume\, Against the grain: The far left in Britain from 1956\, bringing together young and established academics and writers to discuss the realignments and fissures that maintain leftist politics into the twenty-first century. \nThe two books endeavour to historicise the British left\, detailing but also seeking to understand the diverse currents that comprise ‘the far left’. Their objective is less to intervene in ongoing issues relevant to the left and politics more generally\, than to uncover and explore the traditions and issues that have preoccupied leftist groups\, activists and struggles. To this end\, the book will appeal to scholars and anyone interested in British politics. \nSpeakers  \nEvan Smith is a Visiting Adjunct Fellow in the School of History and International Relations at Flinders University\, South Australia \nMatthew Worley (Editor) \nProfessor John Kelly (Birkbeck University) \nTickets available here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/waiting-for-the-revolution-the-british-far-left-from-1956/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/British-far-left.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190612T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190612T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20190522T131502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190611T143537Z UID:490-1560366000-1560369600@housmans.com SUMMARY:To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in Europe today. Speakers Akwugo Emejulu and Dr Francesca Sobande will explore the differing social positions of black feminism in various countries and the ways in which Black feminists organize and mobilize to imagine a Black feminist Europe. This event is also part of Pluto Press’s 50th anniversary celebratory bookshop takeovers.  \nDeeply aware that they are constructed as “others” living in a racialized and hierarchical continent\, the contributors explore gender\, class\, sexuality\, and legal status to show that they are both invisible—presumed to be absent from and irrelevant to European societies—and hyper-visible\, assumed to be passive and sexualized\, angry and irrational. \nIn imagining a future outside the neocolonial frames and practices of contemporary Europe\, this book explores a variety of critical spaces including motherhood and the home\, friendships and intimate relationships\, activism and community\, and literature\, dance\, and film. \nSpeakers \nAkwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Community Development as Micropolitics: Comparing Theories\, Policies and Politics in America and Britain (Policy Press\, 2015)\, and the co-author with Leah Bassel of Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press\, 2017) and Fugitive Feminism (Silver Press\, 2018). \nDr Francesca Sobande is a Digital Media Studies Lecturer at Cardiff University. Her work focuses on how racism and sexism manifest in media and the marketplace. She has published work in the European Journal of Cultural Studies\, and Consumption Markets and Culture\, and is the author of The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan\, forthcoming 2020). \nTickets available here\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/to-exist-is-to-resist-black-feminism-in-europe/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/to-exist_black-feminism.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190605T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190605T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234922 CREATED:20190522T125737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190522T130503Z UID:477-1559761200-1559764800@housmans.com SUMMARY:The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line DESCRIPTION:Tickets available here\n  \nJoin Kojo Haram and Ash Sarkar for a very special “celebratory bookshop takeover” by Pluto Press to mark its 50th anniversary. Join Kojo and Ash to discuss this collection which reveals the racist impact of the War on Drugs across multiple continents and in numerous situations. An essential collection for all people fighting racism today.\n  \nThe War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead\, displaced and incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races\, international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line across the globe. \nWhile laws prohibiting the production\, sale and use of particular drugs are presented as politically neutral and objective\, this collection reveals the racist impact of the war on drugs across multiple continents and in numerous situations. From racialised drugs policing at festivals in the UK to the necropolitical wars in Juarez\, Mexico and from the exchange of drug policing programs between the United States and Israel to the management of black bodies in Brazil\, this collection proves that the regulation of drugs and race is an international\, and intentional\, disaster. \nPushing forward the debate and activism led by groups such as Black Lives Matter and calling for radical changes in drug policy legislation and prison reform\, both nationally and internationally\, this collection cuts deep and rings true for all people fighting racism today. \n“A monumental study of the transnational circuits of racist policing etched out through the War on Drugs\, the immeasurable toll of human suffering they have induced\, and the resistances mounted against them.” Arun Kundnani\, author of The Muslims are Coming \nKojo Koram is lecturer at the School of Law\, University of Essex. \nAsh Sarkar is a British journalist and political activist. She is a senior editor at Novara Media and teaches at Anglia Ruskin University and the Sandberg Institute \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/the-war-on-drugs-and-the-global-colour-line/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/New-website.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR