BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Housmans Bookshop 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:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231027T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231027T223000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20230930T154217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231027T161728Z UID:51716-1698433200-1698445800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: We Hear Only Ourselves by Bill Cashmore DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome Bill Cashmore to Housmans to celebrate the publication of her exciting new book ‘We Hear Only Ourselves’. As Étienne Balibar says\, this book is a ‘beautiful breakthrough by enormously gifted young philosopher.’ We Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its contradictions. If a future beyond capitalism cannot be imagined\, what is the place of utopia today? The answer\, Cashmore argues\, lies beyond either idle speculation or merely hopeful optimism. We Hear Only Ourselves seeks a concept of utopia which is strengthened\, not undermined\, by its contradictions. From the dialectics of the Frankfurt School to the energetics of resistance in the writings of the Black Panthers\, this book draws on a wide range of thought to offer a new concept of utopia\, one adequate for our present moment. \n\n\n\nBill will be in conversation with Matt Colquhoun\, followed by an open discussion. \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \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/book-launch-we-hear-only-ourselves-by-bill-cashmore/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/F7ImCNWW8AARXHq-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231122T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231122T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20231102T130529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T133532Z UID:52338-1700679600-1700685000@housmans.com SUMMARY:VAGUE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF ANARCHO-PUNK FANZINES: with Tom Vague and Tony D (Ripped And Torn/Kill Your Pet Puppy) hosted by MayDay Rooms DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the publication\, by PC-Press (www.pc-press.co.uk) of a brand new compendium ‘Vague Fanzines Book\, Vol. 1: 1979-1984: Issues 1-15’\, which lovingly reproduces the first 15 issues of Vague in A4-sized full colour\, we welcome to Housmans Tom Vague in discussion with Tony D\, to talk about the impact Vague had\, and also on anarcho-punk zine culture more widely. \n\n\n\nVague was a fanzine that tuned so many people on to the joy of punk and the futuristic and hybrid styled music that followed it\, that became known as ‘Post-Punk’ or for a period of time ‘Positive Punk’. Vague promoted the notion that a band meant something more than the music and that meaning could be shared amongst like-minded folk\, the ‘lovable spikey tops’ or the like-minded ‘tribe’ that people were looking for. Vague though was critical enough to see through the growing number of punk bands who were seduced by the world of popstardom and teen adulation. \n\n\n\nThat disillusion often turned into a searching for the counter culture\, or philosophy and radical politics\, to find something that could inspire us to be different and to change the world around us. Vague became the go to critical counter cultural fanzine that still found music irresistible but wasn’t just a fawning FAN zine. Vague also importantly had a sense of humour\, it could laugh at itself as well as brag about how good it was and slag off those it found wanting! \n\n\n\nTom Vague\, the long-running editor of Vague\, will be joined by Tony D\, the man behind the classic punk zines Ripped and Torn\, and also Kill Your Pet Puppy. The event will be hosted by MayDay Rooms\, whose archival work celebrates and preserves radical print cultures and DIY Independent publishing house PC-Press who have published Vague volume 1 and also books about Test Dept\, Massive Attack\, Killing Joke\, NSK State and a Post-punk novel; Looking For A Kiss by Richard Cabut. \n\n\n\nThe event will be hosted by MayDay Rooms\, whose archival work celebrates and preserves radical print cultures. \n\n\n\n\n\n\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/vague-and-the-importance-of-anarcho-punk-fanzines-with-tom-vague-and-tony-d-ripped-and-torn-kill-your-pet-puppy-hosted-by-mayday-rooms-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/VAGUE-COMPENDIUM-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231124T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231124T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20231027T151714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231123T115115Z UID:52241-1700852400-1700861400@housmans.com SUMMARY:LAUNCH: 'Deeping It: Colonialism\, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill' by Adèle Oliver DESCRIPTION:We are very excited to welcome Adèle Oliver to celebrate the London launch of her vital\, erudite and exacting book ‘Deeping It: Colonialism\, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill’. Adèle will be joined by fellow members of the Art Not Evidence group\, a brand new charity launching this month. \n\n\n\nArt Not Evidence is a new coalition comprising senior lawyers\, journalists\, academics\, youthworkers\, music industry professionals\, and human rights campaigners. Their mission is to fight for a fairer criminal justice system by advocating for a restriction on the use of creative and artistic expression as evidence in criminal trials. They believe that art\, including music\, should be protected as a fundamental form of freedom of expression and should not be used to unfairly implicate individuals in criminal charges. \n\n\n\n The main focus of the discussion will be Adèle’s book ‘Deeping It’ an analysis of drill’s fight against moral panic and its fraught relationship with the police and political authority in the UK\, exemplified by constant censorship\, racism\, and moments such as when a drill duo became the first people in British legal history to receive a prison sentence for simply performing a song. Policing\, policy and criminalization are the cornerstones of colonial suppression; art\, self-expression and collective action are beacons of resistance. Deeping It places drill firmly in the latter category\, tracing its production and criminalization across borders and eras of the British Empire\, exploring drill’s artistic singularity but also its inherent threat as a Black artform in a world that prioritizes whiteness. Intervening on this discourse steeped in anti-Blackness\, this Inkling ‘deeps’ how the criminalization of UK drill cannot be disentangled from histories\, technologies\, and realities of colonialism and consumerism. \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\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/launch-deeping-it-colonialism-culture-criminalisation-of-uk-drill-by-adele-oliver/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DEEPINGITclear-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231208T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231208T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20231123T122016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231208T113545Z UID:52923-1702062000-1702067400@housmans.com SUMMARY:'The Broken Promise of Infrastructure' Dominic Davies in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Sivamohan Valluvan\, chaired by Emma Parker DESCRIPTION:‘The Broken Promise of Infrastructure’ Dominic Davies in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Sivamohan Valluvan\, chaired by Emma Parker\n\n\n\n\n\nDrawing on examples from Rhodes’s railways to the tragedy of Grenfell\, The Broken Promise of Infrastructure takes readers on a journey through a cultural history of infrastructure development across Britain and its Empire. \n\n\n\nThe Broken Promise of Infrastructure tackles the divisive cultural politics that have been used to deflect attention away from Britain’s failing infrastructure\, from Brexit through to the ‘levelling up’ agenda and beyond. Building on more than a decade of research\, Davies argues that infrastructure projects are always far more than concrete and steel: they can reinforce nationalist narratives\, undermine regional identities\, and place real limits on our politics. By exposing the geographies of race\, class\, and gender that still govern the way infrastructure is imagined\, Davies invites us to break open these limits and ask what – or rather who – really makes Britain work. \n\n\n\nThe promise of ‘levelling up’ has been broken. With case studies that range from Stoke-on-Trent and South Africa to Silicon Valley\, Davies shows that this broken promise runs back through broader histories of industry and empire. As racial capitalism maintains its iron grip on Britain and the climate crisis becomes daily more apparent\, this book argues that there has never been a more urgent time to challenge dominant ways of thinking about infrastructure\, and to reclaim its world-shaping force for ourselves. \n\n\n\n“An exhilarating journey through time and space… This exciting book explains why the performative politics of planning and architecture are far too important to be left to the professionals”– Vron Ware\, author of Return of a Native: Learning from the LandDominic Davies is an academic and author whose research focuses on how infrastructure is lived\, imagined\, and experienced. He is particularly interested in the cultural politics of infrastructure as they take shape through contexts of empire\, nationalism\, and racial capitalism. \n\n\n\nDom is the author and editor of several book\, articles\, and chapters relating to these topics\, including most recently The Broken Promise of Infrastructure. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in English at City\, University of London. More information about his research is available at drdomdavies.com.Elleke Boehmer is a founding figure in the field of colonial and postcolonial literary studies\, and internationally known for her research in the anglophone literatures of empire and anti-empire.  \n\n\n\nSivamohan Valluvan is an Assistant Professor in the department of Sociology at the University of Warwick\, and author of ‘The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and Nation in Twenty-First Century Britain \n\n\n\nEmma Parker is a Lecturer in Literature and Gender at the University of Bristol\, and author of ‘Life Writing and the End of Empire. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/the-broken-promise-of-infrastructure-dominic-davies-in-conversation-with-elleke-boehmer-and-sivamohan-valluvan-chaired-by-emma-parker/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/The-Broken-Promise-of-Infrastructure2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240125T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240125T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20231219T154725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240125T180354Z UID:53484-1706209200-1706218200@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy: Maya Oppenheim in conversation with Nadia Whittome MP DESCRIPTION:Housmans are absolutely delighted to welcome writer and journalist Maya Oppenheim to the shop alongside the brilliant Nadia Whittome MP to celebrate the publication of Maya’s new book\, ‘The Pocket Guide to Patriarchy’. \n\n\n\nAcross the world\, women are still denied opportunities and rights. The home remains the most dangerous place for women to be worldwide; with the majority of homicide victims who are women being killed by partners or relatives. In some countries\, women who get abortions after they are raped face jail time. Less than 20 per cent of landholders in the world are women. Despite all these truths\, many would prefer to blame women. For not demanding a seat at the table. For walking home alone at night. For not working hard enough to overcome the odds that are stacked against them. In her fact-filled\, inclusive and energising book\, Maya Oppenheim supplies you with the unforgettable realities\, real-world anecdotes and tales of resistance to help you combat denial and continued injustice as the far-right grows and women’s rights come under attack. If yet another rebuttal of patriarchy leaves you lost for words\, this book can be pulled out of your pocket. \n\n\n\nMaya and Nadia will unpick the book’s major themes together\, tacking issues such as women’s health\, sexual Violence\, the criminal justice system\, sex work\, policing and reproductive rights. \n\n\n\nThis will be followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\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/the-pocket-guide-to-the-patriarchy-maya-oppenheim-in-conversation-with-nadia-whittome-mp/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/hbg-title-9781398718746-42.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240216T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240216T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20231222T164527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240210T180520Z UID:53622-1708110000-1708119000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: Dear Lettera 32 by Cat Chong DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the publication of Cat Chong’s ‘Dear Lettera 32’\, the first physical publication by PermeableBarrier\, an online journal of art and poetry. Cat Chong\, one of our most exciting young up and coming poets\, will be joined by special guest readers: Nisha Ramayya\, JD Howse\, Briony Hughes and Kat Sinclair. \n\n\n\nDear Lettera 32\, Cat’s second collection\, is a text that revels in contradictions\, and in doing so gives the lie to our comfortable assumptions about the act of writing in and of itself. Refusing to capitulate to the reassurances of singular address\, Cat Chong draws from the world around them to create a kaleidoscope of hope and longing\, divinity and corruption\, esoterica and hypermodernity. Confessional\, lyrical\, yet densely packed with theory\, Chong uses an encounter with a typewriter as the inspiration for a migration across the possibilities of poetry. The resulting work is a deeply readable yet visually jarring text that evades easy categorisation. Is this an epistolary novel? A diary? A poem? Chong inhabits multiple spaces while rejecting the easy categorisation that any of them might offer\, instead opening up their work to the creative possibility of discomfort. \n\n\n\nOur Readers: \n\n\n\nCat Chong is a poet whose work considers the intersections between genre\, genderqueerness\, disability\, and chronic illness. Their debut collection 712 stanza homes for the sun was published in 2023 by Broken Sleep Books\, and is available to purchase from their website. Cat is currently the digital editor at Osmosis Press\, where they publish poetry by a wide variety of writers interested in pushing boundaries and crossing borders. They’re a graduate of the Poetic Practice MA at Royal Holloway\, a PhD student at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\, and visiting PhD fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. Cat can be found on instagram and twitter @marbledmayhem. \n\n\n\nNisha Ramayya grew up in Glasgow and now lives in London. Her poetry collection States of the Body Produced by Love (2019) is published by Ignota Books. Her second collection will be published by Grantain 2024. Tentatively called Now Let’s Take a Listening Walk\, it hazards a musical journey through history\, myth\, and sci fi. \n\n\n\nBriony Hughes teaches poetry at Royal Holloway University\, where she is currently completing her PhD. She is Poet in Residence at the University of Surrey\, editor at Osmosis Press\, and co-edits the poetry feature in Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine. She lives in Berkshire with her partner and their two rabbits. \n\n\n\nKat Sinclair is a poet from Southampton. She is the author of Very Authentic Person (The 87 Press)\, Please Press (Sad Press)\, and upcoming publication The Pharmacy. \n\n\n\nJD Howse works across poetry\, essay\, collage\, and fiction. He is the author of a number of books including Just Meat Not God\, This Is A Dagger\, and Noises Again. He runs PermeableBarrier and works as a producer for a publishing company.Sent from my iPhone \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \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-dear-lettera-32-by-cat-chong/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Dear-Lettera-32-by-Cat-Chong-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240227T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240227T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20231219T164112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240227T175708Z UID:53522-1709060400-1709069400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Mick Lynch: The making of a working-class hero" by Gregor Gall DESCRIPTION:We are very excited to welcome Professor Gregor Gall to the bookshop to celebrate the publication of his new book about Mick Lynch\, the celebrated trade unionist and General Secretary of the RMT. \n\n\n\n In the summer of 2022\, the little-known leader of a small union became a ‘working-class hero’. Facing down media pundits who thought they could walk all over him\, he offered a robust critique of the government and capitalism\, and in doing so\, provided workers with an authentic voice. At a time when Labour was unable to articulate a credible alternative to the Tories\, Mick Lynch spoke for the working class. \n\n\n\nThis book\, the first biography of Lynch\, asks and answers the questions: Where did he come from? How did he develop the skills and traits that make him such an effective spokesperson? How has his leadership fared in the heat of battle? The book\, both a celebration and critique of Lynch\, explores his persona and politics\, as well as the political period he operates in and the potential power of his members. It holds lessons for all workers and their unions.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\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/book-launch-mick-lynch-the-making-of-a-working-class-hero-by-gregor-gall/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Mick-Lynch-cover1519.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240229T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240229T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240202T172307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240202T172310Z UID:54365-1709231400-1709238600@housmans.com SUMMARY:‘Eaten By The Internet’ with Corinne Cath and Fieke Jansen [at Space4\, Finsbury Park] DESCRIPTION:‘Eaten By The Internet’ with Corinne Cath and Fieke Jansen [at Space4\, Finsbury Park] \n\n\n\nHousmans has proudly teamed up with Space4 and the FUTURES Podcast to present a series of live events regarding the impacts of capitalism on digital technology \n\n\n\nIn this first session we’ll be hosting Dr. Corinne Cath and Dr. Fieke Jansen to talk about the politics of internet infrastructure – the theme of their newest book Eaten by the Internet. \n\n\n\nEaten by the Internet makes internet infrastructure visible as a force of political power\, transforming the social world from the bottom up. It is made up of fifteen chapters\, contributed by a global set of researchers\, activists\, and techies. \n\n\n\nDr. Cath is the editor of Eaten by the Internet. She is a cultural anthropologist studying the politics of Internet infrastructure and cloud computing. Her current focus is on the adequacy of existing EU technology policy efforts that touch on cloud computing. \n\n\n\nDr. Jansen is one of the contributors to the book. She is a tech skeptic\, researcher\, educator and advocate on the impact of technology on society. Her research interest is to understand how the material impact of expending infrastructures is shaping the management\, distribution\, and depletion of natural resources. \n\n\n\nDr. Cath and Dr. Jansen will be in conversation with Luke Robert Mason who hosts the FUTURES Podcast – a show that explores the topics of artificial intelligence\, human enhancement\, space travel and virtual reality. Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments. \n\n\n\nEaten by the Internet is published by Meatspace Press\, an independent publisher translating academic research on tech to real life\, or “meatspace”. You can order your copy of Eaten by the Internet here\, or download a free copy of the pdf here. You can also pre-order the book through our event ticketing and Housman’s bookshop will bring it for you on the day. \n\n\n\nSPACE4\n\n\n\nSPACE4 is part of Outlandish\, a co-op that builds websites and digital tools for social good. We are interested in tech for good\, progressive economics\, and social change. We provide co-working\, meeting\, and events space\, primarily to social enterprises and digital activists. We also organise and host a range of events\, workshops\, and meetups around these topics. Don’t hesitate to get in touch or visit us. \n\n\n\nThe £5 charge on this event is a deposit that will be refunded if you attend. The reason behind this is to assure bums on the seats as we spend a lot of time prepping for these events and workshops. If you’re unable to pay contact natasha@outlandish.com for free registration.USE THE LINK BELOW TO RESERVE A TICKETTHIS EVENT IS NOT AT HOUSMANS\, BUT AT SPACE4 in FINSBURY PARK \n\n\n\nVenue access information: https://space4.tech/visit-us \n\n\n\nSign up to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dKiIsU \n\n\n\nVisit our website: https://space4.tech \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/eaten-by-the-internet-with-corinne-cath-and-fieke-jansen-at-space4-finsbury-park/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/eaten.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240315T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240315T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240209T105650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240315T183128Z UID:53923-1710529200-1710538200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Infinite City by Niall Kishtainy DESCRIPTION:‘Glorious’ GUARIDAN \n\n\n\n‘Vigorous\, rigorous and eminently readable’ Thomas W. Hodgkinson \n\n\n\nLondon is a city of dreamers. A city of possibility and experiment. A city of fervent imaginings and courageous aspirations. For centuries\, it has been the capital of utopian thought. The Infinite City tells this history for the first time. \n\n\n\nHousmans are extremely excited to welcome Niall Kishtainy for a special talk in and around his acclaimed book The Infinite City. Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More\, the Diggers\, William Morris and Extinction Rebellion protestors. He introduces us to thinkers like Thomas Spence who threw coins stamped with the words ‘YOU FOOLS’ into the alleys of Holborn. To Ada Salter who was the first woman borough councillor in London and ignited the Bermondsey Revolution. To ninety-two-year-old Dolly Watson who became the queen of Claremont Road in Leytonstone during the Reclaim the Streets protests in the 1990s. These are inspiring tales of people who drew might from the city around them and fought for their ideologies in an increasingly transforming world. \n\n\n\nBeginning in the sixteenth century and stretching from the contemporary transformation of the East End docklands to the COVID lockdowns\, The Infinite City shows how London’s spirit has been one of visionary imagination amid relentless change and innovation. \n\n\n\nNiall will be delivering an exclusive presentation (complete with slides) followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nDoors: 7:00\, Event start: 7:30 \n\n\n\n As always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\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/book-talk-the-infinite-city-by-niall-kishtainy/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/91jHOvIdpFL._SL1500_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240202T174719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240202T174842Z UID:54376-1711650600-1711657800@housmans.com SUMMARY:'How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It' with Joshua Dávila [at Space4\, Finsbury Park] DESCRIPTION:‘How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It’ with Joshua Dávila [at Space4\, Finsbury Park] \n\n\n\nHousmans has proudly teamed up with Space4 and the FUTURES Podcast to present a series of live events regarding the impacts of capitalism on digital technology \n\n\n\nIn this second session we’ll be hosting Joshua Dávila to talk about his work and book Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It. \n\n\n\nDávila has been working in the European blockchain space for the past five years and has been anonymously moonlighting as the one behind The Blockchain Socialist blog and podcast. While crypto is often thought of as being synonymous with unbridled capitalism\, Dávila’s book Blockchain Radicals shows instead how the technology can and has been used for more radical purposes\, beyond individual profit and towards collective autonomy. \n\n\n\nDávila will be in conversation with Luke Robert Mason who hosts the FUTURES Podcast – a show that explores the topics of artificial intelligence\, human enhancement\, space travel and virtual reality. Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments. \n\n\n\nBlockchain Radicals is published by Repeater Books\, a radical publisher based in London. You can pre-order the book through our event ticketing and Housman’s bookshop will bring it for you on the day. \n\n\n\nSPACE4\n\n\n\nSPACE4 is part of Outlandish\, a co-op that builds websites and digital tools for social good. We are interested in tech for good\, progressive economics\, and social change. We provide co-working\, meeting\, and events space\, primarily to social enterprises and digital activists. We also organise and host a range of events\, workshops\, and meetups around these topics. Don’t hesitate to get in touch or visit us. \n\n\n\nThe £5 charge on this event is a deposit that will be refunded if you attend. The reason behind this is to assure bums on the seats as we spend a lot of time prepping for these events and workshops. If you’re unable to pay contact natasha@outlandish.com for free registration. \n\n\n\nUSE THE LINK BELOW TO RESERVE A TICKET \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS NOT AT HOUSMANS\, BUT AT SPACE4 in FINSBURY PARK \n\n\n\nVenue access information: https://space4.tech/visit-us \n\n\n\nSign up to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dKiIsU \n\n\n\nVisit our website: https://space4.tech \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/how-capitalism-ruined-crypto-and-how-to-fix-it-with-joshua-davila/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/blockchain-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240307T163730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240323T153740Z UID:55217-1711652400-1711657800@housmans.com SUMMARY:A Thousand Little Machines: Franco 'Bifo' Berardi\, A/Traverso and the Movement of '77 DESCRIPTION:In 1977 youth revolts spectacular in their intensity\, creativity and violence would send shockwaves throughout Italian society. These rebellions\, belonging to the autonomia movement\, were characterised by a mass refusal of wage-labour and powered by novel experiments in communication\, in particular the printed word. Hundreds of revolutionary newspapers known as ‘movement sheets’\, would circulate Italy during those years\, acting as little machines to produce political subjectivity. \n\n\n\nJoin us for the book launch for A Thousand Little Machines: A/Traverso and the Movement of ’77\, with editors and contributors\, Jamila Squire\, Seth Wheeler and Nick Thoburn.The book contains the recollections of the autonomist militant\, philosopher and media theorist Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi on autonomia and the tumultuous events of ’77\, told through the pages of A/traverso\, the Bolognese movement sheet he produced with others between 1975 – 1981. \n\n\n\nIn texts translated into English for the first time\, presented alongside extensive archival material and stunning photographs\, this book explores the subversion\, exuberance and joy of the movement of ’77\, while raising important questions about the role of creative collectivity and experimental communication for militants today. \n\n\n\nThere will be drinks after the event! \n\n\n\nMore about the book here: https://agitpress.net/books/p/a-thousand-little-machines \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/a-thousand-little-machines-franco-bifo-berardi-a-traverso-and-the-movement-of-77/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-06-at-10.52.29.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240405T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240405T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240322T134705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240322T134708Z UID:55723-1712343600-1712354400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: A Primer on Utopian Philosophy DESCRIPTION:How Ernst Bloch’s work can provide new hope for utopian thinking today. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHousmans are delighted to welcome John Greenaway back to the shop after he so brilliantly helped us launch Bill Cashmore’s fantastic ‘We Hear Only Ourselves’ last year. Billie will also be returning\, this time to serve as John’s interlocuter\, as he launches A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: How Ernst Bloch’s work can provide new hope for utopian thinking today. \n\n\n\nThe utopian project lies in ruins\, but perhaps in our present moment\, there are elements from the history of thought that can provide fresh resources for utopianism. In this groundbreaking introduction\, Jon Greenaway explores the work of German philosopher Ernst Bloch\, whose complex and challenging philosophy is a primer for a philosophical renewal of the struggle for a better world. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\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/book-launch-a-primer-on-utopian-philosophy/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/jhp6582e0074214c.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240202T175752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240205T122543Z UID:54387-1714069800-1714077000@housmans.com SUMMARY:‘How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World\, And How We Win it Back’ with Jeremy Gilbert\, Alex Williams and Alison Winch DESCRIPTION:‘How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World\, And How We Win it Back’ with Jeremy Gilbert\, Alex Williams and Alison Winch \n\n\n\nHousmans has proudly teamed up with Space4 and the FUTURES Podcast to present a series of live events regarding the impacts of capitalism on digital technology. \n\n\n\nIn this last session we’ll be hosting a panel discussion between Jeremy Gilbert\, Alex Williams\, and Alison Winch to talk about digital power in the 21st century – the theme of Gilbert and Williams’ newest book Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back). \n\n\n\nHegemony Now explores how Big Tech and Wall Street have shaped the direction of politics and government as well as the neoliberal economy to benefit their own interests. However\, since the 2008 financial crisis this dominance is under threat and digital platforms offer new opportunities for counter hegemonic strategies to win back power. Hegemony Now outlines a dynamic socialist strategy for the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nJeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural & Political Theory at the University of East London. \n\n\n\nAlex Williams is a political theorist and lecturer in digital media and society currently based at the University of East Anglia. \n\n\n\nAlison Winch is Lecturer in Promotional Media at Goldsmiths\, and of particular relevance to this topic is co-author of ‘The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism: Celebrity Tech Founders and Networks of Power’ (Routledge 2021). \n\n\n\nThey will be in conversation with Luke Robert Mason who hosts the FUTURES Podcast – a show that explores the topics of artificial intelligence\, human enhancement\, space travel and virtual reality. Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments. \n\n\n\nHegemony is published by Verso Books\, the largest independent\, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world\, publishing one hundred books a year. You can pre-order the book through our event ticketing and Housman’s bookshop will bring it for you on the day. \n\n\n\nSPACE4\n\n\n\nSPACE4 is part of Outlandish\, a co-op that builds websites and digital tools for social good. We are interested in tech for good\, progressive economics\, and social change. We provide co-working\, meeting\, and events space\, primarily to social enterprises and digital activists. We also organise and host a range of events\, workshops\, and meetups around these topics. Don’t hesitate to get in touch or visit us. \n\n\n\nThe £5 charge on this event is a deposit that will be refunded if you attend. The reason behind this is to assure bums on the seats as we spend a lot of time prepping for these events and workshops. If you’re unable to pay contact natasha@outlandish.com for free registration. \n\n\n\nUSE THE LINK BELOW TO RESERVE A TICKET \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS NOT AT HOUSMANS\, BUT AT SPACE4 in FINSBURY PARK \n\n\n\nVenue access information: https://space4.tech/visit-us \n\n\n\nSign up to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dKiIsU \n\n\n\nVisit our website: https://space4.tech \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRESERVE TICKETS VIA EVENTBRITE\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/how-big-tech-and-wall-street-won-the-world-and-how-we-win-it-back-with-jeremy-gilbert-alex-williams-and-alison-winch/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/hegemony-now-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240428T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240428T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240402T150042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T140507Z UID:56016-1714330800-1714339800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Love the World Or Get Killed Trying ALVINA CHAMBERLAND in conversation with JULIET JACQUES DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to be welcoming Alvina Chamberland to celebrate the publication of her hotly anticipated autofictional work Love the World Or Get Killed Trying. \n\n\n\nNamed a Most Anticipated Book in Nylon\, Them\, Ms. Magazine\, Autostraddle\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Bay Area Reporter\, LGBTQ-reads\, and Write or Die-Magazine. \n\n\n\n“Perhaps some hearts are so big they must constantly burst and break.” \n\n\n\nThrough playful poetic prose\, sharp social commentary and self-deprecating gallows humor Love the World or Get Killed Trying dives into the mind of Alvina\, a trans woman on the eve of turning 30. The reader is invited to follow her journey through the breathtaking wilderness of Iceland and busy city boulevards of Berlin and Paris as she probes questions of eternity\, sexuality\, longing\, death\, love\, and how hard it is to remain soft when you’re a ceaseless target of straight men’s secret lust and open disgust. This novel tackles universal issues through a trans woman’s specific lens – insisting on these experiences speaking to far more than just issues of sexuality and gender. \n\n\n\nReaching its climax through an urgent wildfire scream-of-consciousness\, cry-of-love-manifesto\, Love the World or Get Killed Trying is a raw and vulnerable work of magical brutalist autofiction; abstract in the sense of poetically digging beneath the surface\, and experimental in the sense of trying to find out new things and express them in new ways\, while concretely asserting that if trans women one day collectively outed every man who seeks them out\, a full-blown revolution would ensue by nightfall. \n\n\n\nAlvina will read from the book and be in conversation with the brilliant Juliet Jacques\, followed by an audience Q&A. \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS: \n\n\n\nAlvina Chamberland is a Swedish-US American author of predominantly literary autofiction novels. In 2015 Bokförlaget ETC published her co-authored book Allt som är Mitt: Våldtäkt\, Stigmatisering och Upprättelse (English translation: All that is mine: Rape\, Stigmatization and Reparation). The book received a grant from the Swedish Arts Council. In September 2018 her novel Utelåst – Uppväxt- nostalgi för freaks (Locked Out – A nostalgic account of growing up for freaks) a parody of the coming of age-genre\, was published by Dockhaveri Förlag. She resides between Athens and Berlin and has no real hobbies\, only intensity and serenity. Love the World or Get Killed Trying is her English language debut. \n\n\n\nJuliet Jacques (b. Redhill\, Surrey in 1981) is a writer\, filmmaker\, broadcaster and academic based in London. She has published six books\, including Trans: A Memoir (2015)\, two short story collections including Variations (2021)\, Front Lines: Trans Journalism 2007-2021 (2022)\, and a novella\, Monaco (2023). Her fiction\, journalism and essays have appeared in the Guardian (including her ‘Transgender Journey’ column\, longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2011)\, New York Times\, Frieze\, London Review of Books and many other publications; her short films have screened in galleries and festivals across the world. She teaches at the Royal College of Art and elsewhere\, hosted the arts discussion programme Suite (212) on Resonance 104.4fm\, and is a co-host of Novara FM. She has played football for Clapton Community FC\, Horley Town and Surrey. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:15 \n\n\n\n\n\n\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/book-launch-love-the-world-or-get-killed-trying-alvina-chamberland-in-conversation-with-juliet-jacques/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/love-the-world-exterior-new-2-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240503T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240503T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240319T123100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T171029Z UID:55605-1714762800-1714773600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: Half-Earth Socialism DESCRIPTION:January 14\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHousmans are delighted to welcome Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass to the shop to celebrate the paperback launch of their seminal book Half-Earth Socialism. \n\n\n\nWithout revolutionary change\, humanity confronts a dystopian future of global heating\, epidemics\, and mass extinction. Yet\, the mainstream ‘solutions’ on offer are either too modest or too risky\, such as toothless cap-and-trade programmes\, dangerous geoengineering schemes\, seaweed in cattle feed\, luxury electric cars\, and wildlife conservation bankrolled by billionaires. In their book Half-Earth Socialism\, newly released in paperback\, historian Troy Vettese and scientist Drew Pendergrass criticize such tepid solutions and offers instead a countervailing vision for the future.  \n\n\n\nHalf-Earth Socialism goes beyond critique to confront a series of difficult questions. What does a just and ecologically-stable society actually look like? How can we go past the colonial history of conservation and replace it with something democratic and grounded in indigenous sovereignty? If capitalism leads inevitably to environmental crises\, how can we organize production and distribution without markets? If we engage in economic planning\, what are the planetary boundaries that constrain our interchange with nature? Can we ensure planning remains democratic? In Half-Earth Socialism\, Vettese and Pendergrass demonstrate that thinking through such questions allows us to imagine a new kind of society that is not only desirable\, but also feasible and necessary.  \n\n\n\nIn this event\, Vettese and Pendergrass will will be joined in conversation by food transparency advocate Robbie Lockie\, co-founder of Plant Based News. Half-Earth Socialism argues that widespread veganism makes it far easier to save land for biodiversity\, renewable energy\, fossil-free agriculture\, and carbon dioxide removal. In addition to the other points of the book\, their conversation will touch on disinformation in animal agriculture\, the role of veganism within broader environmental and left-wing movements\, and the relationship between activism and media. \n\n\n\nAbout our speakers: \n\n\n\nDrew Pendergrass is a writer\, activist\, and climate scientist whose work imagines how humanity can democratically govern itself under a worsening environmental crisis. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Science and Engineering at Harvard University\, where he also earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Mathematics. His research uses satellite\, aircraft\, and surface observations of the environment to correct supercomputer models of the atmosphere. Drew is currently working on a system that uses satellites to estimate real-time global emissions of methane\, an important greenhouse gas. He is the lead developer of CHEEREIO\, a free\, open-source software used by scientists to characterize the sources of a wide variety of pollutants. Drew is co-author of the book Half-Earth Socialism (Verso\, 2022)\, along with historian Troy Vettese\, with whom he has also co-written articles for Architectural Design and International Labor and Working-Class History. In addition to his scientific publications\, Drew has authored various pieces of popular environmental writing for outlets including Harper’s\, The Guardian\, and Jacobin. \n\n\n\nTroy Vettese is a Ciriacy-Wantrup post-doctoral fellow at the University of California\, Berkeley. He obtained his Ph.D. from New York University and Masters’ degrees from NYU\, St. Andrews\, and Oxford\, and has held research fellowships at the University of Copenhagen\, the European University Institute\, and Harvard University. Troy has taught a variety of courses on environmental studies in connection with Marxism\, neoliberalism\, and critical theory at the University of Milan\, Lund University\, and the University of Copenhagen. Together with Drew Pendergrass\, Troy is the author of the manifesto\, Half-Earth Socialism (Verso\, 2022)\, which has been discussed in Jewish Currents\, New Statesman\, Le Monde\, and the Ecologist\, as well as being translated into Swedish\, Italian\, Thai\, Korean\, and Spanish. He is currently writing a monograph on neoliberal environmental thought and editing a volume on Marxist animal studies. Troy’s popular writing has appeared in n+1\, the Guardian\, Jacobin\, Boston Review\, and Bookforum. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRobbie Lockie\, a digital media innovator and food transparency advocate\, leads The Freedom Food Alliance\, promoting informed consumer choices and exposing industry practices. Their recent report unveils disinformation tactics in animal agriculture. As co-founder of Plant Based News\, Robbie raises awareness on veganism\, reaching millions monthly. Inspired by personal health challenges\, Robbie champions ethical\, sustainable living for a better world. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\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/book-talk-half-earth-socialism/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/getimage_db694b49-2f99-4e74-b6e8-b59be92d62f0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240510T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240510T223000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240409T152609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T100941Z UID:56179-1715367600-1715380200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: Change Everything by Natalie Bennett DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to welcome Natalie Bennett to the shop to celebrate the publication of her new book of green political theory: Change Everything: How we can rethink\, repair and rebuild society. \n\n\n\nWe are living in a social\, political\, economic and environmental emergency. The status quo is profoundly unstable; change is inevitable. Now is the time to get together to build a far healthier and more balanced world. The decades-old political orthodoxy\, that greed is good\, inequality doesn’t matter and we can keep treating the planet as a mine and a dumping ground\, has been a recipe for disaster. Our world needs a new vision\, the Green vision. From Universal Basic Income to free education\, from less stuff but more life\, to genuine democratic opportunities for all\, Natalie Bennett brings together a holistic\, hopeful and practical vision for the future.The foundations of Change Everything are conversations with many thousands of people. We need to engage millions to bring together the imagination\, talents and energy of all to rebuild and repair our societies. Then a positive future is within our reach. \n\n\n\n‘This book is a tonic! Positively bristling with countless common-sense solutions to restore human and planetary wellbeing\, Change Everything powerfully sets out what needs to be done and how to do it. Both practical and hopeful\, it’s essential reading for anyone who wants a route map to a fairer\, greener future.’Caroline Lucas MP \n\n\n\n‘Natalie Bennett is right. We have to change everything. But how? Sitting on our hands and hoping things will return to ‘normal’ is not an option . . . Natalie Bennett provides hope and inspiration by showing us how in a myriad of practical ways. If you want to “be the change you wish to see in this world”\, read this book’ Christine Milne\, former leader of the Australian Greens \n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nNatalie Bennett was leader of the Green Party of England and Wales 2012-2016\, and entered the House of Lords in 2019. That’s meant a decade travelling the country speaking at public meetings\, in schools\, colleges and universities\, and hearing about the many great grassroots efforts being made to tackle our polycrises. She has degrees in agricultural science\, humanities and social science\, reflecting her passion for joined-up\, systems thinking\, rather than reductionist\, 20th-century-style approaches. She was editor of the Guardian Weekly\, chief sub-editor on the Bangkok Post\, and a volunteer at the Thai National Commission on Women’s Affairs. She grew up on the lands of the Wallumedegal people in northern Sydney. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\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/book-talk-change-everything-by-natalie-bennett/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/F9wbVXSWMAApun-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240618T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240618T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240514T123202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240607T104732Z UID:56958-1718737200-1718748000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Walking The Streets/Walking The Projects: OWEN HATHERLEY in conversation with LAURA GRACE FORD DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to welcome Owen Hatherley and Laura Grace Ford to the shop to celebrate the publication of Owen’s latest book: ‘Walking The Streets/Walking The Projects.’ \n\n\n\nThese are two of our most beloved\, and exciting\, writers working at the thresholds of psychogeography\, urban theory and radical thought. So we are particularly excited to be able to get them in conversation at Housmans. Advance booking strongly recommended. \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nA walk through the remnants of a social democratic America\, and an argument about its future.In the 1960s\, a novel ideology about cities\, and what was best for them\, emerged in New York. Pushing against the state planning of the time\, it held that cities were at their best when they were driven from the bottom-up and when organic\, unplanned processes were allowed to run their course\, in a spontaneous “ballet of the street”. Cities were at their worst\, however\, when the state stepped in\, demolishing lively old neighbourhoods and erecting giant\, sterile\, empty “projects”. This book uses the method of this ideology ― walking ― to test how true it actually is about the “capital of the twentieth century”\, New York City\, with a brief interlude in the capital\, Washington DC.The “projects” that are walked in this book range from cultural complexes in Manhattan to New Deal-era public housing developments in Brooklyn\, Harlem and Queens\, from the social experiment of Roosevelt Island to Communist housing co-operatives in the Bronx\, from the union-driven rebuilding of the Lower East Side to DC’s magnificent Metro. For all their many flaws\, they prove that Americans could\, in fact\, plan and build fragments of a better society\, which survive and sometimes thrive today in one of the unequal places on earth. Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects takes a hard look at these enclaves\, and asks what a new generation of American socialists might be able to learn from them. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nOwen Hatherley writes regularly on aesthetics and politics for\, among others\, the Architectural Review\, the Calvert Journal\, Dezeen\, the Guardian\, Jacobin\, the London Review of Books and New Humanist. He was culture editor at Tribune magazine and is the author of several books. \n\n\n\nLaura Grace Ford draws on psychogeography\, hauntology and the dérive\, her work interrogates the psychic contours of urban space with a particular focus on subcultural scenes\, marginal political networks and UK club culture. In 2011 Ford’s zine Savage Messiah\, was published Verso and reissued in 2020. Part fragmented novel\, part collage\, the book is both a polemic against the marginalisation of the city’s working class and an exploration of the cracks that open up in urban space. Ford’s practice spans painting\, drawing\, installation\, sound and publishing\, with an eye on the city’s emotional shifts. Ford’s work is held in public collections and is on the UK GCSE and A level syllabus. She has contributed to many publications including The White Review\, Frieze\, Art Review\, Afterall and Dazed\, as well as numerous academic journals. She exhibits and teaches internationally\, and is currently a Somerset House Studios resident. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/book-launch-walking-the-streets-walking-the-projects-owen-hatherly-in-conversation-with-laura-grace-ford/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Walking-the-street-cover-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240626T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240626T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240530T170245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T170252Z UID:57383-1719428400-1719433800@housmans.com SUMMARY:'Empire\, Decline and the Fate of English Nationalism' Sivamohan Valluvan in conversation with Kojo Koram on his book 'Uncommon Wealth'.      DESCRIPTION:‘Empire\, Decline and the Fate of English Nationalism’ Sivamohan Valluvan in conversation with Kojo Koram on his book ‘Uncommon Wealth’.     \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the second conversation in a three-part series on Resisting Nationalism Kojo and Vallu will explore contemporary English nationalism’s morose impasse\, an impasse that squats in the legacies of Empire but also bequeaths to its Establishment a particularly anachronistic worldview. \n\n\n\nVia Kojo’s book\, alongside revisiting thinkers like Tom Nairn and Paul Gilroy\, the conversation will chart the melancholic nationalism that has taken England’s political culture hostage. \n\n\n\nThe conversation will address how hubristic delusions are coupled to moribund fixations with English grievance and victimhood – all of which play upon colonial legacies but also weaken the country’s ability to adjust to the rise of new global powers and wider ongoing reconfigurations in the global economy. \n\n\n\nPART OF THE RESISTING NATIONALISM SERIES \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/empire-decline-and-the-fate-of-english-nationalism-sivamohan-valluvan-in-conversation-with-kojo-koram-on-his-book-uncommon-wealth/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KOJO-KORAM-EVENT.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240719T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240719T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240514T151820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240719T134246Z UID:56984-1721415600-1721426400@housmans.com SUMMARY:POSTPONED DUE TO SPEAKER COMING DOWN WITH COVID! So Mayer and Kate Hardie in conversation. DESCRIPTION:SADLY THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO A SPEAKER COMING DOWN WITH COVID. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE SOON. THOSE WITH TICKETS WILL BE REIMBURSED. \n\n\n\nTHANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING!Housmans are delighted to hand the shop floor over to Kate Hardie and So Mayer who will be talking about about how they both use genre fiction to tell hard truths\, finding queer and feminist form for personal stories. We are also happy to be celebrating the paperback launch of Kate’s brilliant and haunting debut novel This Is Where We Live. Described in The Independent as ‘the most gripping account of motherhood since Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work’ This Is Where We Live is a masterful work of contemporary\, and subtle\, gothic fiction: A single mother wakes to blood in her mouth and flesh under her fingernails. A severed toe on the doorstep. A boy missing. But her child needs to get to school. There’s a food shop to be done. Parents evenings\, play dates and pasta for tea. Raising her child alone\, she’s done all she can to protect them. But what if she’s the thing they need protecting from the most? \n\n\n\nKate’s interlocuter for the evening will be the inimitable So Mayer\, whose most recent work is the acclaimed short story collection Truth or Dare: a queer quantum tour through what was\, what is\, what could have been and may yet still come to pass\, a collection that braids high-wire believe-it-or-not memoir with cutting-edge science fiction (or is it?) from alternate timelines that vibrate very close to ours. Truth or dare? Both\, always. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur speakers: \n\n\n\nKate Hardie is an actor and screenwriter\, her acting work includes The Krays\, Mona Lisa\, the award winning Safe and more recently National Treasure. She has written and directed for Channel Four The BFI and Sky and is due to direct her first feature. She has also taught screen writing and directing\, lectured and advised on representation and diversity within the film industry\, and written essays and articles for the Guardian and Dazed. She is mother to one and lives in London with her husband. This Is Where We Live is her debut novel. \n\n\n\nSo Mayer is a writer\, indie bookseller\, film curator\, and pencil stan. Their most recent books are A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (Peninsula\, 2020)\, a short essay on queer art\, censorship and resistance\, and (Litmus\, 2018)\, a poetry sequence about interwar masculinity\, technology and hats\, and their BFI Film Classics on Orlando is forthcoming. Their work across genres and forms has been published internationally\, including in Roxane Gay’s anthology Not that Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture\, in several Criterion DVDs\, and in Ignota Press’s Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry. Plus their poetry once appeared on hoardings in Dublin. With Adam Zmith\, they collaborated on Unreal Sex for Cipher\, an anthology of queer SFFH\, and on the BBC Sounds podcast The Film We Can’t See\, a tour through queer film history. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\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/book-talk-kate-hardie-in-conversation-with-so-mayer/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/preeti-insta-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240710T115525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240710T164336Z UID:58322-1721934000-1721944800@housmans.com SUMMARY:SISSY ANARCHY presents the release of ‘KNOTS’ by Fi Kube DESCRIPTION:SISSY ANARCHY cranks up the volume on confessional literature with a blistering new journal series. Brace yourself for genre-bending writers who burrow into the recesses of their psyches\, dragging out the raw\, unsettling truths lurking beneath the surface. \n\n\n\nFor our first journal\, we present the release of ‘KNOTS’ by Fi Kube\, an auto-essay journal that reflects on experiences of trans misogyny\, child sexual abuse\, sexual and gendered violence and the trauma this causes. \n\n\n\nTo be presented at Housmans Bookshop with special guest readers Fi Kube \, Hesse K.\, and Biogal\, alongside the release of a new special edition risograph poster bundle with artworks by Bug Shepherd-Barron\, Leomi Sadler\, and Jesse Glazzard.  \n\n\n\nAll proceeds made on the evening from the sale of posters will go to trans healthcare + you can use your posters at Trans Pride! \n\n\n\nABOUT SISSY ANARCHY \n\n\n\nSISSY ANARCHY is a platform about trans queer anarchism by P Eldridge and Caitlin McLoughlin. We understand anarchism as an ideology\, that is\, a set of ideas\, motivations\, ethics\, values\, a structure or system of concepts that have a direct connection with action which influences political practices. We include the abstract and theoretical understandings of anarchism as a basis for free thinking and understanding from activists\, artists\, writers\, poets\, archivists\, and many more\, as a conducive way toward conceiving a model for social transformation; which converges through the lens of trans queer theory and artistic practices against anti-trans\, anti-queer\, capitalist\, colonial\, racist\, ableist\, and discrimination struggles across the world. We strive toward SISSY ANARCHY being a platform that has a political practice which seeks final objectives. @sissyanarchy \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/sissy-anarchy-presents-the-release-of-knots-by-fi-kube/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/KNOTS_EVENT-GRAPHIC-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240731T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240731T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240530T163403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T164415Z UID:57362-1722452400-1722457800@housmans.com SUMMARY:"Disaster Nationalism" Richard Seymour and Sivamohan Valluvan on the Downfall of Liberal Civilization DESCRIPTION:“Disaster Nationalism” Richard Seymour and Sivamohan Valluvan on the Downfall of Liberal Civilization\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe third and final conversation in a three-part series on Resisting Nationalism is with Richard Seymour previewing his forthcoming book ‘Disaster Nationalism’ (October 2024\, Verso). The rise of the new far-right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders like Donald Trump\, Jair Bolsonaro\, and Rodrigo Duterte\, the true peril lies elsewhere. They are but the political manifestations of a potent force – disaster nationalism. This mass cultural phenomenon\, propelled through the vast networks of social media and fueled by far-right influencers\, emerges from a reservoir of societal despair\, fear\, and isolation. \n\n\n\nAt its core\, disaster nationalism fixates on images of catastrophe – the ‘Great Replacement\,’ Satanic ‘cabals’ – as explanations for its discontent. It yearns for an ‘end of days\,’ a reckoning\, a ‘storm’ as the QAnon faithful call it\, to bring an end to its suffering. This yearning is only heightened by the relentless onslaught of real-world disasters – from economic recessions to global pandemics and ecological collapse. \n\n\n\nWithin this seething cauldron\, we witness not only the surge of far-right political movements but also the sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies\, from ‘lone wolf’ killers to terrifying pogroms. Should a new fascism emerge\, it will coalesce from these very elements. This is disaster nationalism. \n\n\n\nIn Disaster Nationalism\, Richard Seymour delves deep into this alarming phenomenon\, dissecting its roots\, its influencers\, and the threats it poses. With meticulous analysis and compelling storytelling\, this book offers a stark warning and a call to action. The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization itself.PART OF THE RESISTING NATIONALISM SERIES \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/disaster-nationalism-richard-seymour-and-sivamohan-valluvan-on-the-downfall-of-liberal-civilization/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/disaser-tight.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240801T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240801T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240710T121155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240801T144230Z UID:58329-1722538800-1722549600@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: SISSY ANARCHY presents ‘Trap Unfolds Me Greedily’ by Misha Honcharenko\, in conversation with writer\, broadcaster and author of ‘This Ragged Grace’\, Octavia Bright. DESCRIPTION:Housmans is delighted to welcome SISSY ANARCHY and Misha Honcharenko to the shop\, to celebrate the publication release of Misha’s first novel\, ‘Trap Unfolds Me Greedily.’ Writer\, broadcaster and author of ‘This Ragged Grace’\, Octavia Bright joins for a live conversation with Misha. \n\n\n\nAbout the book:Ukrainian artist and poet Misha Honcharenko is a refugee fleeing the war on Ukraine during the ongoing militant invasion of Russian forces. Whilst writing Trap Unfolds Me Greedily\, he is the primary caretaker of his mother who suffers with severe health complications and is hospitalised. As a young queer man\, Misha sets out on a path of discovery in the face of continued atrocities and displacement. His strength to brave such abject horrors makes its way into his prose\, which is relentless\, merciless\, leaving no reader resolved. \n\n\n\nWritten with a deep intelligence and a fierce willingness to understand that which terrorises\, Trap Unfolds Me Greedily follows Misha as he succumbs to new forms of grief whilst navigating the complexities of the immigration system\, his queerness\, war crimes\, violence\, and bereaving the slow passing of his closest relative and protector\, his mother. With each phrase\, he turns toward the atrocities to make sense of his life\, weaving stories that sear with intimate complexity. \n\n\n\nIt’s deeper than raw and unflinching\, Trap Unfolds Me Greedily hurts as it rustles the literary canon and binds you to the suffering with Misha’s original voice; where he invites you to be witness to such powerful forms of sorrow\, asking: what does it mean to build a life of one’s own from the rubble\, in the wake of what remains? \n\n\n\nBios: \n\n\n\nMisha Honcharenko is a Ukrainian queer artist and writer. He started his Instagram profile as a form of art diary\, combining weirdness in context of objects and landscapes\, exploring himself via photography for over a decade now. Skin of Nocturnal Apple is his first poetry collection published by Pilot Press in 2023. Trap Unfolds Me Greedily is his upcoming debut novel published by SISSY ANARCHY. @michgonch \n\n\n\nOctavia Bright is a writer and broadcaster. Her memoir\, This Ragged Grace\, is published by Canongate and is out in paperback now. @octavia.bright \n\n\n\nSISSY ANARCHY is a platform about trans queer anarchism by P Eldridge and Caitlin McLoughlin. We understand anarchism as an ideology\, that is\, a set of ideas\, motivations\, ethics\, values\, a structure or system of concepts that have a direct connection with action which influences political practices. We include the abstract and theoretical understandings of anarchism as a basis for free thinking and understanding from activists\, artists\, writers\, poets\, archivists\, and many more\, as a conducive way toward conceiving a model for social transformation; which converges through the lens of trans queer theory and artistic practices against anti-trans\, anti-queer\, capitalist\, colonial\, racist\, ableist\, and discrimination struggles across the world. We strive toward SISSY ANARCHY being a platform that has a political practice which seeks final objectives. @sissyanarchyhttps://sissyanarchy.substack.com/ \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-sissy-anarchy-presents-trap-unfolds-me-greedily-by-misha-honcharenko-in-conversation-with-writer-broadcaster-and-author-of-this-ragged-grace-octavia/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Misha-Launch-Graphic-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240803T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240803T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240710T124802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240710T134059Z UID:58337-1722711600-1722722400@housmans.com SUMMARY:the87press presents HUMMINGBIRDS 2.0: a literary salon with Edgar Garcia\, John Wilkinson and Calliope Michail DESCRIPTION:Housmans are thrilled to be collaborating with the inimitable 87press to present Hummingbirds 2.0\, a literary salon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n The hummingbird is a surrealist motif that symbolises love and dialogue\, something which we wish to foster further within poetry and literature. Each salon event offers an intimate space for live poetry readings and discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHummingbirds 2.0 features Edgar Garcia\, John Wilkinson\, and Calliope Michail; discussion will be chaired by Azad Ashim Sharma. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books\, 2019)\, Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography\, Hieroglyphs\, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press\, 2020)\, and Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (University of Chicago Press\, 2022). He is associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Wilkinson’s most recent books are the poem clusters Wood Circle (The Last Books 2021) and Fugue State (Shearsman 2023). His absentee memoir Colours Nailed to the Mast was published by Shearsman in 2023. An emeritus professor in the Department of English\, University of Chicago\, he now lives in Cambridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCalliope Michail is a London based poet and translator. Poems\, collages\, watercolour erasures\, translations\, etc.\, have appeared in various publications including Snow Lit Rev\, Penteract Press\, The Hythe\, Datableed\, Pamenar Press\, Lumin and Prototype. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook Along Mosaic Roads (the87press\, 2018). She enjoys collaborating with other poets and artists\, often for performances at the European Poetry Festival and Camarade series. In the fall\, she will start working on a PhD on the poet Iliassa Sequin. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTickets are free\, but advanced booking is strongly recommended. \n\n\n\nTickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the87press-housmans-bookshop-present-hummingbirds-20-a-literary-salon-tickets-932354335917?aff=oddtdtcreator \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/the87press-presents-hummingbirds-2-0-a-literary-salon-with-edgar-garcia-john-wilkinson-and-calliope-michail/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion group,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image0.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240809T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240809T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240706T120202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240806T125235Z UID:58220-1723230000-1723239000@housmans.com SUMMARY:GRIEF AND GOODNESS: A Conversation between Camille Sapara Barton and Sanah Ahsan DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to be handing the floor over to two wonderful\, warm and alert writers. Having each recently published books that address similar themes\, Sanah Ahsan and Camille Sapara Barton will be joined in a conversation touching on topics of grief\, sorrow\, hope and community. This is promising to be a moving\, powerful evening and we are extremely excited. There will be readings\, conversation and a Q&A\, followed by an open mic session. Advanced booking recommended. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS: \n\n\n\nSanah and Camille will be in conversation exploring the relationship between goodness and grief – two central themes of their books. They will delve into the wild mysteries of grief tending and embracing uncomfortable emotions as a method to refuse the tyrannies of positivity and productivity culture. They will examine the role of whiteness and dogma in constructing our ideas of goodness. Troubling the binaries of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ in queer activist spaces\, these writers emphasise the duty of repair\, relinquishing righteousness and community responsibility in tending to relational fractures.  \n\n\n\nFinally\, this event will dance in the gulfs between the publicly professed politics\, and what is lived privately\, inviting us all to grieve together in the messy in-between.” \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\nFeel free to Bring Your Own Bottle! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/grief-and-goodness-a-conversation-between-camille-sapara-barton-and-sanah-ahsan/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/preeti-insta.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240830T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240830T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240804T113424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T161102Z UID:59070-1725044400-1725053400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: EXAM NATION: Sammy Wright in conversation with Ed Vainker DESCRIPTION:Housmans look forward to welcoming teacher\, and former member of the Social Mobility Commission\, Sammy Wright. Sammy will be discussing his latest book Exam Nation: a first hand account of the struggles student and teachers face in the relentless pursuit of performance table ranking. \n\n\n\nIn Exam Nation\, Sammy asks the fundamental question; what is school really for? Current assessment infrastructure bases student merit and access to FE/HE almost entirely on pressurised performance. Sammy argues that exams function better as benchmarks for progress – like driving tests – than a definitive dictation on what doors open for whom. He asks: how best do we support those children who show an inclination towards vocational work\, and how should educators engage when education isn’t valued in the home? \n\n\n\nSammy interviews parents\, students and colleagues to get to the root\, digging into community\, complex developmental needs\, familial support structures and trauma (all possessing the ability to make or break a child’s performance). He isn’t anti-exams – recognising the true need for assessment – but believes schools are much more effective when focused on community integration\, fostering genuine engagement with subjects\, and preparing students for the realities of adulthood. Drawing upon twenty years of experience\, Exam Nation is hopeful as it is at times heart-breaking – a rallying cry for cross-sector critical evaluation. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\nFeel free to Bring Your Own Bottle! \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/book-talk-sammy-wright-exam-nation/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/9781847927521-jacket-large.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240908T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240908T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240823T131216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240906T160327Z UID:59601-1725822000-1725831000@housmans.com SUMMARY:An Evening with Calvin John Smiley DESCRIPTION:Housmans are extremely excited to welcome the inimitable scholar\, sociologist and criminologist Dr Calvin John Smiley to the shop to discuss his work. Calvin’s brilliant writing concerns prison abolition\, race\, inequality\, and social justice and these will be the primary themes of discussion on the evening. He will be focusing especially on his two most recent book\, Defund: conversations toward abolition and Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry\, Race and Abolition. \n\n\n\nCalvin will be joined by Dr Becka Hudson from Birkbeck’s School of Historical Studies. Her work uses history\, anthropology and criminology to look at the interaction between psychiatry and imprisonment. \n\n\n\nThe evening will consist of a discussion which will then be followed by an audience Q&A. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30P.S. BYOB \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/an-evening-with-calvin-john-smiley/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/preeti-insta-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240816T122421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240917T120218Z UID:59414-1726686000-1726691400@housmans.com SUMMARY:‘The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire’ with Matt Kennard DESCRIPTION:‘The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire’ with Matt Kennard (SOLD OUT)\n\n\n\n\n\nHousmans welcome back investigative journalist Matt Kennard to discuss the new edition of this vital and staggering book\, which exposes the dark nature of modern geopolitics and neo-imperialism. \n\n\n\nWhile working for the Financial Times\, Matt Kennard had unbridled access to the crème de la crème of the global elite. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara\, Kennard spent four years gathering extraordinarily honest testimony from the horse’s mouth on how the global economic system works away from the convenient myths. It left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money\, and a reach much too close to home. \n\n\n\nOwing to the very nature of the Financial Times\, however\, Kennard was not able to publish these findings as part of his day job. Enter The Racket\, now in a fully updated second edition. This tell-all book\, reported from all corners of the world\, will transform everything you thought you knew about how the world works-and in whose interests. Kennard reports not only from across the United States\, but from the United Kingdom\, the Caribbean\, Latin America\, Africa\, and the Middle East. In doing so he provides startlingly clear and concrete evidence of unchecked\, high-level\, interrelated systems of exploitation all over the world. At the same time\, through encounters with high-profile opponents of the racket such as Thom Yorke\, Damon Albarn\, and Gael García Bernal\, Kennard offers a glimpse of a developing resistance\, which needs to win. \n\n\n\nNow more relevant than ever\, this 2nd edition contains a new preface by the author and a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges. \n\n\n\nThere will be a reading from the book and discussion\, followed by a Q&A.Matt Kennard is co-founder\, and chief investigator\, at Declassified UK\, a news outlet investigating British foreign policy. He was a fellow and then director at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in London\, UK. He has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington\, DC\, New York\, and London. He is the author of several acclaimed books including Irregular Army (2012)\, and co-author (with Claire Provost) of Silent Coup (2023). \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com.Housmans cannot sell alcohol but please feel free to bring a bottle! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSOLD OUT! There are no more tickets available for this event.\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/the-racket-a-rogue-reporter-vs-the-american-empire-with-matt-kennard-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/RACKET-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240830T151115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T142655Z UID:59785-1726858800-1726867800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Resisting Mediocrity: Remaking the University DESCRIPTION:It’s not easy being made redundant. It’s an act of violent separation. Over the past decade\, thousands of lecturers and researchers have experienced this attack on their income\, autonomy and dignity; thousands more\, at around 70 universities\, are currently at risk of losing their jobs. Universities are in crisis – and 40% of institutions are projected to be in financial deficit this year.  \n\n\n\nUniversity bosses lack the vision necessary to do anything but mimic their competitors. The new Labour government\, like its Tory predecessor\, is sanguine about job cuts\, course closures and even university bankruptcies. The leadership of the University and College Union seems impotent in the face of the onslaught\, happy to embrace a mediocre and exploitative system of higher education.  \n\n\n\nEven as many alternative spaces of accessible learning\, such as trade unions\, have faced huge challenges\, every year sees fresh attempts at political education. In reading groups\, community art projects\, trade unions\, social centres\, and religious spaces\, people continue to engage in collective self-education. \n\n\n\nThis event will explore the contours of the crisis in universities\, and consider possible routes out of the mess made by neoliberal management. We will ask\, what would education look like without the profit motive? How can we resist the university’s relentless mediocrity in order to build something better\, whether on campus or beyond? \n\n\n\nOUR PANEL \n\n\n\nSita Balani is a UCU branch committee member at Queen Mary University of London. She will talk about political education\, including Study and Struggle\, a course/reading list designed to be used both inside and outside of the university. \n\n\n\nNicholas Beuret is a member of inCommons\, a collective project which is bringing together scholars\, activists and organisers to offer residential courses on commoning\, free to students and outside of the university. \n\n\n\nZara Dinnen is branch co-chair at Queen Mary University of London UCU\, where she has been involved in political education in meetings\, pickets and beyond. She is co-author of the essay “How to Stop a University”. \n\n\n\nBecca Harrison contributes to UCU committees (OU branch\, national exec\, higher education\, equalities) and organises against institutional and gender-based violences. She is the author of ‘Fuck the Canon\,’ which calls for a remaking of film and media studies\, and is a contributor in Al Jazeera’s ‘Degrees of Abuse’ series. \n\n\n\nDavid Harvie was a UCU organiser at University of Leicester until being made redundant – part of an attack on trade union organisation – in 2021. Now a deprofessionalised intellectual\, he’s co-author of Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities (2024) and\, since June 2023\, has been UCU’s (national) honorary treasurer. \n\n\n\nRehana Zaman has been a UCU executive committee member at Goldsmiths since 2021\, most recently in the role of co-President. She is also an artist and filmmaker often engaging issues around labour and immigration through collective forms of practice. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\nFeel free to BYOB. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/resisting-mediocrity-remaking-the-university/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Discussion group,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jhp6617ef4523e98-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240930T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240930T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240827T145815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T101319Z UID:59671-1727722800-1727733600@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: NAT RAHA launches 'apparitions (nines)' DESCRIPTION:We are very\, very excited to be welcoming the legendary poet Nat Raha to Housmans for the official UK launch of her new book\, apparitions (nines). A vital figure in UK\, and wider Anglophone\, vanguardist poetry for many years Raha’s newest experiment in lyric writing promises to be characteristically invigorating. \n\n\n\nReading alongside Nat we’ll have fabulous poetry from Mendoza\, Christine Kirubi\, Susannah Slack\, Samuel Solomon abd Daniella Valz Gen. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK: \n\n\n\nInjecting the disruptive potential of collective action into the body of the poem\, Nat Raha’s invigorating experiment resuscitates Anglophone poetry. \n\n\n\nInjecting the disruptive potential of collective action into the body of the poem\, Nat Raha’s invigorating experiment resuscitates Anglophone poetry. Amidst the violence of capitalism and state and imperial power\, there is Nat Raha’s apparitions (nines) in its “charred golden minidress\,” ushering us into a space of grief and resistance\, the embodiment and intimacy of queer\, trans\, and diasporic Black and brown people. Written as a series of “niners\,” a poetic form consisting of nine nine-syllable lines\, apparitions (nines) is at once a brash and subversive rejoinder to the Anglophone sonnet\, as well as an ode to beauty\, collectivity\, and tenderness which emerges from\, and far surpasses\, constraint. \n\n\n\nOUR READERS: \n\n\n\nDr Nat Raha is a poet\, activist-scholar\, and Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Her poetry is of an experimental queer lyric\, attending to hirstories of struggle and resistance to racial capitalism\, through de/re/materialising sound\, form and syntax\, on the page and in performance. \n\n\n\nHer books of poetry include apparitions (nines) (Nightboat Books\, 2024)\, of sirens\, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press\, 2018) and countersonnets (Contraband Books\, 2013). Her performance work\, epistolary (on carceral islands) was co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival\, Scotland and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts\, Galway\, Ireland\, 2023. \n\n\n\nWith Mijke van der Drift\, Nat is co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (Pluto Press\, forthcoming 2024); their article ‘“They would plant the rose garden themselves”: Femmeness\, Complicity\, Solidarity’\, is due imminently in Social Text. \n\n\n\nMendoza\, aka Linus Slug: Insect Librarian\, is nonbinary neurodivergent poet and researcher. Their work evolves through a series of creative processes exploring the interaction between sound\, image and text. The purpose of poetry making is not to speak of their experiences in neurotypical terms\, but to describe how they navigate the world through their own embodied language in which familiar and unfamiliar terrain is disrupted. In doing so\, they are liberated from neurotypical modes of thinking allowing them to de-construct / (re)construct the ‘self’ through the language of insects.  It is an act of nonconformity. \n\n\n\nPublications include WINDSUCKERS & ONSETTERS: SONNOTS for Griffiths\, collaboration with Peter Manson (Materials\, 2018); “the science of poetry : the poetry of science” Linus Slug / Peter Manson broadside (2015)\, and Type Specimen: An Observant Guide To Linus Slug (Contraband Books\, 2014). Mendoza’s poetry can be heard at the Archive of the Now \n\n\n\ndove Christine is an artist-poet based in London. Her debut collection WILDPLASSEN is out now with the87press. \n\n\n\nSuzanna Slack is the author of Gummi Zone (2023)\, White Spirit Videotelephony (2023)\, The Shedding (2022)\, Luxury Profile (2021)\, The Poor Children (2021)\, Is This It? (2019)\, all produced by VF Press\, and Happy Birthday Story (1998)\, by Atman.  The Poor Children was selected by Sophie Collins\, author of Small White Monkeys\, as a White Review 2022 Book of the Year.  The chapter (Money) from The Poor Children is to be included in a forthcoming book by Kris Dittel and Aneta Rostkowska as part of their ongoing Unruly Kinships project.  Suzanna writes memory trilogies\, who knows why\, and is producing another one while managing disabilities and care responsibilities. They are grateful for any help. \n\n\n\nSam Solomon lives in Brighton. He is author of Special Subcommittee (Commune Editions\, 2017)\, Lyric Pedagogy and Marxist-Feminism: Social Reproduction and the Institutions of Poetry (Bloomsbury\, 2019)\, and co-translator from the Yiddish of The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin (Tebot Bach\, 2014). He is currently at work on a literary labour history of queer typesetting and has recently completed a second collection of poems.   \n\n\n\nProcess-led\, Daniella Valz Gen’s work explores poetic experience through different forms of reading\, writing\, performing and making. They’re invested in a relational and responsive approach to land\, place\, and the other-than-human. Born in Peru and based in London\, Valz Gen’s work highlights the interstices between languages\, cultures and value systems as areas where potential new meanings can arise.  Valz Gen is the current writer in residence at Whitechapel Gallery. They are a co-director of the analogue film cooperative not/nowhere and a lecturer in Fine Art. Valz Gen’s work has been shown at Glasgow International\, SPILL Festival\, Aichi Triennale\, Gropius Bau among others. Subversive Economies\, their first poetry collection\, was published by PSS Press in 2018. Their writing has been featured in The Happy Hypocrite\, Map Magazine\, Salt\, and others. \n\n\n\nThis a free event. \n\n\n\nIf you have any further enquiries please Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30P.S. BYOB \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/poetry-reading-nat-raha-launches-apparitions-nines/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/9781643622392_FC-copy-533x800-1-1.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182843 CREATED:20240906T163344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T110524Z UID:59901-1728068400-1728077400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Your Right To Protest by Christian Weaver DESCRIPTION:Housmans are very excited to be welcoming Christian Weaver to shop to celebrate the official launch of his vital new book Your Right To Protest. Christian is a human rights barrister\, social justice campaigner. His first book The Law In 60 Seconds: A Pocket Guide To Your Rights\, has been a long time staple of the Housmans catalogue and one of our bestselling titles\, it is an essential and accessible guide for those interested in activism and direct action. In Your Right To Protest he expands on many of the themes explored in the first book and brings together everything you need to know when taking a stand. Whether you are marching on the streets or making your voice heard from your own front room\, organising in your workplace or writing a letter to your MP\, this essential guide equips you with your fundamental rights and the laws that protect you – as well as the ones you might inadvertently break. \n\n\n\nFrom attending a demonstration to when the police can – and can’t – stop you\, this book has your back. In it\, you’ll find up-to-date information on a whole range of topics\, including: \n\n\n\n– Public assembly and who to notify when you’re on the move \n\n\n\n– Striking in the workplace and action your employer can take against you \n\n\n\n– Direct action and when it crosses over into trespass \n\n\n\n– Stop and search and how to access help if you are arrested \n\n\n\n– Online activism and what to do if you accidentally libel someone \n\n\n\nFor activists new and old alike\, Your Right to Protest is the indispensable guide to using your voice for what you believe in. \n\n\n\nThis is likely to be a very popular event and advance booking is strongly recommended. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\nFeel free to Bring Your Own Bottle! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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... 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