BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.16.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD 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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260422T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260422T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20260331T122229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T122232Z UID:77161-1776884400-1776889800@housmans.com SUMMARY:NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES DESCRIPTION:NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES: CHRISTINE DONOVAN & TOM VAGUE IN CONVERSATION\n\n\n\nJoin us for a conversation between two of the most brilliant writers of psychogeography working the country at the moment as they talk about their recent published works. Christine Donovan’s novel Dériveville explores the long term influence of the Situationist International. Setin 1981 in Paris it tells the story of English literary sensation Julia as she finds herself writing a screenplay with legendary nouvelle vague film director Lenica. The hedonism of the Cannes Film Festival\, the drug-fueled excitement of Les Bains Douche and the tentative writing of a second novel take Julia on a psychogeographical journey Paris. \n\n\n\nJoining Christine in conversation we welcome back to Housmans the living legend Tom Vague\, who has recently published a two part book: Getting It Straight in Notting Hill Gate. From the Palaeolithic age to the drug and sex fuelled psychedelia of the 60s and 70s to the glum post-gentfrified catatonia of the 2020s this work project is an exhaustive psychogeographical autoposy on Notting Hill; as well as a proposed revival. \n\n\n\n‘Vague presents this almost as the autobiography of Notting Hill with him as the inspired mouthpiece\, his own biography mixed with that of the subject. He is the place’ writes Cryptoforestry. \n\n\n\nTom and Christine will talk for around 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by a 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 +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 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00. \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/new-psychogeographies/ CATEGORIES:Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/preeti-insta2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260307T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260307T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20260211T131259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260211T131419Z UID:75710-1772910000-1772915400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: The Mixed + Multiracial Guide To Wellbeing with Namalee Bolle DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebratory evening of radical mixed + multiracial discussion!\n\n\n\n“What aaaaarrrrrrrrrreeeeeee you?!”If you just had that familiar sinking feeling\, this book is for you. Do you point out how alienating and othering that question is? Stand your ground and explain that you don’t have to justify your existence with a pie chart and a family tree? Or keep the peace\, bite your tongue and smile politely at yet another person treating you like a science project? While each mixed person’s experience is different\, there are common threads from living in a monoracial world that weave their way into your life. This book explores ways for mixed and multiracial people to recognise how their identity has shaped their life\, handle common challenges\, and resist othering and erasure.Informed by experience and expertise from both sides of the therapist’s couch\, the Mixed + Multiracial Guide to Wellbeing shows you how to handle microaggressions\, confront systemic issues\, and control your own story. \n\n\n\nThe Mixed + Multiracial Guide to Wellbeing is a timely\, compassionate and quietly radical book that speaks to a fast-growing yet persistently overlooked readership.   \n\n\n\nReviews: \n\n\n\n‘Namalee Bolle successfully brings her readers into an impressive gathering of voices that give depth and breadth to the mixed and multiracial experience. This book invites us all to bring a deeper understanding to our own identities\, and the ways we find belonging and meaning in the world’ \n\n\n\nMarcia Bonato Warren MA MA LPC\, author of Movement and Identity: Multiculturalism\, Somatic Awareness\, and Embodied Code-Switching \n\n\n\n‘Bolle examines the complexities of mixed-race identity and confronts them with thoughtful\, tangible solutions. The Mixed + Multiracial Guide to Wellbeing is a relatable and fascinating read for anyone who’s ever fielded the question\, “What are you?” And essential for anyone who’s asked it’ \n\n\n\n Nabil Ayers\, author of My Life in the Sunshine \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS: \n\n\n\nNamalee Bolle is a London-based multidisciplinary artist\, transpersonal transcultural integrative psychotherapist and award winning writer. She is British born of Sri-Lankan and Dutch-Jewish heritage and her work explores themes of multicultural identity\, intergenerational trauma and post-traumatic thriving. With a background as SUPERSUPER! magazine co-founder Namalee was featured in Pioneers: A Renaissance in South Asian Creativity at the British Maritime Museum. Her work has been published in The Guardian\, I-D\, Dazed\,The London Evening Standard\, Vogue and ShowSTUDIO. \n\n\n\nJassa Ahluwalia is a British actor\, writer\, filmmaker and trade unionist. Born in Coventry to a white English mum and a brown Punjabi dad\, he came to prominence as Rocky in the hit BBC Three series Some Girls\, followed by starring roles in Unforgotten\, Ripper Street\, and Peaky Blinders. Jassa created the hashtag #BothNotHalf to explore mixed identity in light of his own British-Indian heritage. His TEDx talk on How Language Shapes Identity has clocked up over 170k views and his BBC One documentary Am I English? won an Asian Media Award in 2022. His book Both Not Half: A Radical New Approach to Mixed Identity is out now from Bonnier Books. \n\n\n\nNamalee and Jassa will talk for around 45 minutes to 1hr followed by a Q&A with the audience. \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 +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 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00. \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-the-mixed-multiracial-guide-to-wellbeing-with-namalee-bolle/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/9781805013655.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260226T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260226T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20260114T122210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T124410Z UID:74976-1772132400-1772137800@housmans.com SUMMARY:MAY WE FEED THE KING: Writing Radical Fiction Today with Rebecca Perry & Misha Honcharenko DESCRIPTION:Perry combines effortless exactitude with canny ambiguity to create a novel that is always as stimulating as it is enchanting. ‘May We Feed the King’ is a rare achievement\, I absolutely loved it. \n\n\n\nClaire-Louise Bennett \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome two of the most exciting writers working in Britain today\, Rebecca Perry and Misha Honcharenko\, to Housmans for our first creative writing event of the year. The talk will be focused on Rebecca’s new novel May We Feed The King (Granta)\, a ‘serial and dreamlike’ (Jessie Burton) work of avant-garde historical fiction that tells the story of ‘ a curator\, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. But in the lush private quarters of a medieval palace\, she finds herself so transfixed by the reign of an almost-forgotten King that the edges of her life begin to blur.’ Interviewing Rebecca about the book we welcome back Misha Honcharenko\, a queer Ukrainian artist and writer whose incredible debut novel Trap Unfolds Me Greedily (Sissy Anarchy) we launched at Housmans back in 2024. The are two writers whose work is in equal parts inventive and alert to the historical circumstances under which it is produced. As the current global order continues to dissolve before our eyes\, we ask: what can\, or should\, ‘fiction’ be now? \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 +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 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00. \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/may-we-feed-the-king-writing-radical-fiction-today-with-rebecca-perry-misha-honcharenko/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/May-We-Feed-the-King-Jacket-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251206T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251206T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20251125T114740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251204T173148Z UID:74099-1765047600-1765053000@housmans.com SUMMARY:CANCELLED: A Short History of Queer Parenting with Kirsty Loehr DESCRIPTION:Kirsty Loehr’s first book A Short History of Queer Women\, a brilliantly written and incisive history of female same-sex desire was one of Housmans’ best-selling titles in 2024. So we are DELIGHTED that she’s back with another brilliantly written and incisive (and warm and funny!!) history\, this time of Queer Parenting! \n\n\n\nQueer families\, Kirsty argues\, have always existed. Even Sappho had a daughter named Cleis! For centuries\, the women of ‘The Golden Orchid Society’ in Qing-dynasty China were getting married and raising daughters together – platonically\, obviously… And Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson’s fabulously bisexual open marriage proved women really can have it all – a husband\, two kids\, a writing career and Virginia Woolf. Maybe you’re exploring your options. Maybe you don’t want kids but you have questions. Either way\, Kirsty Loehr provides another rollicking guide to the ups and downs of queer parenthood through the ages. \n\n\n\nDUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED. \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-short-history-of-queer-parenting-with-kirsty-loehr/ CATEGORIES:Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event,Online event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251126T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251126T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20251110T172422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251110T172426Z UID:73526-1764183600-1764190800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Housmans Poetry Series: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain launches 'Grief is a Thing in Pleather' DESCRIPTION:Join us for another poetry evening\, this time in collaboration with our great friends Osmosis Press\, launching a new collection\, ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’\, from Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain. Prudence will be reading from the book alongside a host a fabulous guest readers (tbc). \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but please RSVP below. Feel free to 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/housmans-poetry-series-prudence-bussey-chamberlain-launches-grief-is-a-thing-in-pleather/ CATEGORIES:Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Poetry-Series-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20250910T165440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T165505Z UID:70135-1760641200-1760646600@housmans.com SUMMARY:the87press & Housmans Bookshop present: Hummingbirds 7.0\, a literary salon DESCRIPTION:Join the87press for a very special Hummingbirds event featuring Alia Al Ghussain and Rayya El Zein to celebrate the launch of Filling the Head: Listening to Rap in Arabic (Indiana University Press\, 2025). \n\n\n\nBased on ethnographic research in Ramallah (Palestine)\, Amman (Jordan)\, and Beirut (Lebanon)\, Filling the Head reveals how youths in these cities have maneuvered the challenges of making music while also navigating shifting geopolitical landscapes. Through these everyday experiences of being moved by music or ideas\, Rayya El Zein explores how ordinary patterns of motion and emotion provide a space for political engagement when spectacular political movements like protests\, strikes\, or revolutions feel far away\, forced\, or otherwise impossible. In contrast to existing narratives that equate rap with popular political resistance against oppressive regimes\, she argues instead for affective engagement through istifzaz―provocation or surprise―as well as yearning. Within this avant-garde genre\, there is no design to reach the masses with a political message; in fact\, as El Zein demonstrates\, the refusal of artists to confine their lyrical or musical experimentation to an ethos of resistance creates an aesthetic whose lack of singular politics defines it. \n\n\n\nHummingbirds is a literary salon curated by the87press aiming to hold space for authors and interlocutors to have conversations about recently published work. This iteration charts a new thread in that conversation which aims to bring academic publishing to a community audience. \n\n\n\nHost: Azad Ashim Sharma\, Founding Director of the87press. \n\n\n\nInterlocutor: Alia Al Ghussain \n\n\n\nAuthor: Rayya El Zein \n\n\n\nTICKETS CAN BE BOOKED HERE: \n\n\nRegister on EventbriteShare 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-housmans-bookshop-present-hummingbirds-7-0-a-literary-salon/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Discussion group,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250716T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250716T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20250617T125025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250630T104237Z UID:67576-1752692400-1752697800@housmans.com SUMMARY:CANCELED: CARCERAL APARTHEID: Brittany Friedman in conversation with Ali Meghji DESCRIPTION:Please note this has event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. \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-carceral-apartheid-brittany-friedman-in-conversation-with-ali-meghji/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/9781469683409.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250625T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250625T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20250603T112648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250623T154612Z UID:67539-1750878000-1750883400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: REMEMBERING WOMEN by Christine Lehnen DESCRIPTION:Women do have a history of their own. All we need to do is remember it. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome Dr Christine Lehnen to Housmans to discuss her illuminating new investigation\, Remembering Women\, that looks back at our collective memory to explore the myriad ways that women in the past have enjoyed a more egalitarian life \n\n\n\nDue to advances in bioarchaeological methods\, scientists have discovered that one out of three women in Ancient Scythia was an active warrior buried with her weapons. Far from being confined to their homes\, these women rode out to hunt\, travelled to distance places\, or used weapons to fend off their enemies. These warriors were no exceptions to the rule\, with women enjoying a significantly higher degree of equality than their Greek contemporaries. \n\n\n\nRemembering Women argues that there is a historical precedent for a fairer society. From reappraisals of well-known objects such as the earliest human bone calendars from the Stone Age to revelatory findings of innovative bioarcheological methods used on human remains from Ancient Scythia\, evidence is accumulating that there were places in the past where all women were allowed to thrive. \n\n\n\nInterweaving new findings from archaeology with the stories of her mother and grandmothers\, as well as her everyday experiences as a woman living today\, Lehnen explores our collective memory of women and argues that it needs to change if we are to create an egalitarian society. Remembering Women follows the traces left in the material\, literary\, and archaeological record by our foremothers\, and their heirlooms\, artwork and stories\, to take a fresh look at our life in the present. \n\n\n\nChristine will be joined in conversation by the writer and wild-swimmer Emma Simpson\, author of Breaking Waves. They will be in conversation for around 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nCHRISTINE LEHNEN is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. She is a regular contributor on feminism\, culture\, history\, archaeology and public memoryfor outlets such as Aeon\, Psyche\, The Wire\, Antigone\, New Lines\, Magazine\, and Deutsche Welle. \n\n\n\nEMMA SIMPSON is a wild swimmer and writer specialising in narrative non-fiction. Having spent a couple of decades being distracted by a career as an air traffic controller and experiencing two life-wrenching events\, she rediscovered her pen and passion for storytelling at the same time as discovering how transformational cold-water swimming was for hert health\, wellbeing\, and sense of connection with the world. She explores these themes in her compelling\, moving book Breaking Waves. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE: Our website has been malfunctioning and we are currently unable to sell tickets through it. For the time being events will be free but please RSVP using the link below. Please only RSVP if you are certain to come to the event\, as we need to keep a cap on the volume of attendees for health and safety reasons. \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-remembering-women-by-christine-lehnen/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Remembering-Women-HB-Cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250619T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250619T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20250514T163010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250514T183327Z UID:66768-1750359600-1750366800@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: Briony Hughes launches SPECULATIVE FREQUENCIES DESCRIPTION:We are excited to welcome the daring and innovative poetry press Permeable Barrier back to Housmans and help them launch their sophomore publication: Speculative Frequencies by Briony Hughes. \n\n\n\n​In this invigorating new collection\, Briony Hughes uses her experiences tracking bats through the Surrey Hills as a means to expand ‘communication’ beyond the human body. The bat as a cultural figure is small\, blind\, nocturnal\, and occasionally sinister\, but in Hughes’ poems they become a medium through which to interrogate the most pressing issues of our time; what happens when we abandon concepts of human exceptionalism and see ourselves as animals existing with other animals within an ecosystem? In a book of innovative engagements with language and visuality\, Hughes explores the enmeshment of humanity within the natural world\, and finds a moving kinship with these exceptional\, easily overlooked creatures. \n\n\n\n“The connection is there; it has been all along\, but the poet boils it to our surface\, dear reader. This collection by Briony Hughes is a masterpiece in feeling the majesty of other creatures vibrating on our skin. Feel the tabbing tapping through a tooth! I love this book!”  \n\n\n\nCAConrad \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Where Nagel gave up on answering the question of what it is like to be a bat\, Briony Hughes leans in. This is a poet who sound-sees\, who turns the page into a night sky aflutter with creaturely life. Speculative Frequencies is at once an experimental field guide\, playful eco-survey and love poem to the more-than-human world.“ \n\n\n\n Isabel Galleymore \n\n\n\n“Think in diameters! Information must come to the intelligence from all the senses’ wrote Thomas A. Clark and this seemingly simple phrase speaks to what is happening in Briony Hughes’ Speculative Frequencies\, her intelligent\, sensual book of bats. Sound\, as we might expect\, is key\, a tapping\, tabbing\, pipping\, pitting\, batting against the ear through the echolocator onto the retro typewriter\, a human/machine/bat conversation that can never keep up but is suggestively\, erotically\, embodied onto the page a la Charles Olson and/or Maggie O’Sullivan. Other pages evoke the concrete works of Cobbing and Morgan in their repetitive play on key bat/habitat words: ‘Repeat until the poem staggers’. The antecedents are visible\, but the work is quirkily original\, and also funny especially when Hughes gets to the ‘Index’\, the ‘information’ bit. It isn’t always clear who is speaking/listening and to whom in this work of shifty pronouns and thus the tentative\, playful and mysterious air of the project is sustained throughout this speculative text.” \n\n\n\nHarriet Tarlo \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBriony will be joined by guest readers Sarah Westcott\, Robin Boothroyd\, and Redell Olsen. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but we ask that you RSVP below. \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-briony-hughes-launches-speculative-frequencies/ CATEGORIES:Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/tickets-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250308T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250308T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20250122T125714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T152254Z UID:63862-1741460400-1741465800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: Celebrating 35 years of 'The Sexual Politics of Meat' With Carol J. Adams DESCRIPTION:The inimitable Carol J Adams will be returning to Housmans this Spring to join us in celebrating 35 years since the publication of her seminal work of Feminist-Vegan critical theory The Sexual Politics of Meat. \n\n\n\nFirst published in 1990\, Carol J. Adams’ revolutionary work has engaged\, enraged\, inspired and challenged readers with its exploration of the interplay between society’s ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with eating animals and masculinity. This iconic book\, referenced in rock songs\, feminist artwork and even a Law and Order SVU episode\, continues to change the lives of its readers today.Published to celebrate the book’s 35th anniversary\, this Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new introduction that reflects on how recent events continue to prove the relevance of this influential work. \n\n\n\nCarol will be in conversation with Dr Corey Wrenn from the University of Kent. They will discuss The Sexual Politics of Meat at length\, focusing on how its themes still resonate today\, what has changed and what has stayed the same. This will be followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers \n\n\n\nCarol Adams is a feminist-vegan advocate\, activist\, and independent scholar and the author of numerous books including The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. It has been translated into German\, Chinese\, Japanese\, Korean\, Turkish\, Portuguese\, Polish\, Spanish\, and French. She is also the co-editor of several important anthologies\, including most recently Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (with Lori Gruen) and The Good it Promises; The Harm it Causes: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism published in 2023 (co-edited with Alice Crary and Lori Gruen). The Carol J. Adams Reader: Writings and Conversations 1995-2015 appeared in the fall of 2016. \n\n\n\nShe has a Masters of Divinity from Yale University. In the 1970s\, alongside her spouse\, the Rev. Bruce Buchanan\, she started a Hotline for Battered Women in Western New York. She is the author of Woman-Battering (1995) in Fortress Press’s Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series. With Marie Fortune\, she edited Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook (1995). She also wrote a training manual\, Pastoral Care for Domestic Violence:  Case Studies for Clergy – for Christian Audiences – Training Manual (2007) published by the FaithTrust Institute. She wrote one of the earliest articles theorizing why batterers harm animals\, Woman-Battering and Harm to Animals.Dr. Corey Wrenn is Senior Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology with Colorado State University in 2016. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar\, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016)\, was elected Chair in 2018\, and co-founded the International Association of Vegan Sociologists in 2020. She serves as Book Review Editor for Society & Animals\, Consulting Editor for Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations\, and past Editor for The Sociological Quarterly\, is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee\, and hosts Sociology & Animals Podcast. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016)\, Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019)\, Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021)\, Vegan Witchcraft: Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change (forthcoming\, Routledge\, and Vegan Feminism: History\, Theory\, Activism (forthcoming\, Bloomsbury). \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 +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 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \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-celebrating-35-years-of-the-sexual-politics-of-meat-with-carol-j-adams/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/9798765123669.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20250114T123508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250224T102110Z UID:63649-1740596400-1740601800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: PINK-PILLED: Women and The Far Right DESCRIPTION:Housmans are very excited to be hosting the London launch for this daring investigation into how women are recruited by the far right online. \n\n\n\nAs the far right has gained popularity and acceptance around the world\, its ranks have swelled with an unlikely category of members: women. \n\n\n\nWomen play significant roles in far-right movements\, acting as propagandists\, prizes to be won and mother-warriors of the nation. But up to now their activities have been largely overlooked. In Pink-pilled\, journalist Lois Shearing interviews leading experts and infiltrates communities of tradwives and femtrolls to provide a cutting-edge account of how the far right uses the internet to recruit women. Shining a light on women’s experiences within these movements\, Shearing reveals horrifying examples of misogyny and violence. \n\n\n\nUnderstanding how and why women join movements that explicitly aim to restrict their autonomy is essential if we want to fight back. Pink-pilled offers key insights for countering women’s radicalisation and building communities resistant to far-right thought. \n\n\n\nLois Shearing is a freelance journalist and author. They are the author of Bi the Way: The Bisexual Guide to Life (2021) and the co-editor of It Ain’t Over Til the Bisexual Speaks: An Anthology of Bisexual Voices (2024). Their writing on sex\, sexuality\, gender\, relationships\, digital culture\, and politics has appeared in Cosmopolitan\, The Independent\, Mashable\, The Metro\, and Gay Times\, among others. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome back to Housmans the brilliant Maya Oppenheim\, former Women’s Correspondent for The Independent and author of The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy\, to join Lake in conversation. The two will talk about roughly 45 minutes\, followed by a 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’ 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 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \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-pink-pilled-women-and-the-far-right/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/9781526170699.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240719T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240719T220000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 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:20240428T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240428T213000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 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:20240216T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240216T213000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 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:20240125T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240125T213000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 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:20220721T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220721T204500 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20220703T135620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220703T140616Z UID:42106-1658430000-1658436300@housmans.com SUMMARY:A Black Feminist Book Club DESCRIPTION:A (monthly) book club for Black women\, femmes and non-binary people to focus on self care\, empowerment and community connections. \n\n\n\nThis month we’re back at Housmans Bookshop. \n\n\n\nOur July pick is Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo by Rebecca Walker. \n\n\n\nFeel free to bring snacks. We’ll hang around after the event for a bit of late night shopping\, socialising and some tunes. You’ll also get a 20% discount on Black feminist books purchased on the night. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\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-black-feminist-book-club/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion group,Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220606T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220606T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20220516T103641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T140146Z UID:41280-1654542000-1654547400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Girl Online with Joanna Walsh DESCRIPTION:What happens when a woman goes online? She becomes a girl. \n\n\n\nThe unwritten contract of the internet\, that a user is what is used\, extends from the well-examined issue of data privacy and consent to the very selves women are encouraged to create in order to appear. Invited to self-construct as ‘girls online’\, vloggers\, bloggers and influencers sign a devil’s bargain: a platform on the condition they commodify themselves\, eternally youthful\, cute and responsibility-free\, hiding offline domestic\, professional and emotional labour while paying for their online presence with ‘accounts’ of personal ‘experience’. Can a Girl Online use these platforms not only to escape meatspace oppressions\, but as spaces for survival\, creativity and resistance? \n\n\n\nTold via the arresting personal narrative of one woman negotiating the (cyber)space between her identities as girl\, mother\, writer\, and commodified online persona\, Girl Online is written in a plethora of the online styles\, from programming language to the blog/diary\, from tweets to lyric prose\, taking in selfies\, social media\, celebrity and Cyberfeminism. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nJoanna Walsh is a multidisciplinary writer for print\, digital and performance. The author of seven books\, including Hotel\, Vertigo\, Worlds from the Word’s End and Break*up she also works as a critic\, editor\, teacher and arts activist. She is a UK Arts Foundation fellow\, and the recipient of the Markievicz Award in the Republic of Ireland. She founded and ran #readwomen (2014-18)\, described by the New York Times as “a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers” and currently runs @noentry_arts. \n\n\n\nJuliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published three books: Rayner Heppenstall: A Critical Study (Dalkey Archive\, 2007); Trans: A Memoir (Verso\, 2015); and a volume of short stories\, Variations (Influx Press\, 2021). Her fourth\, Front Lines: Trans Journalism 2007-2021\, is due out on Cipher Press in July 2022. Her work has appeared in the Guardian\, for whom she documented her gender reassignment in a series entitled A Transgender Journey (2010-12) as well as London Review of Books\, Granta\, Sight & Sound\, Frieze\, Art Review\, New York Times\, The Washington Post\, TimeOut\, The New Statesman and many other places. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\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/girl-online-with-joanna-walsh/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Feminist event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/9781839765353.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220419T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220419T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20220414T114052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T114133Z UID:40782-1650394800-1650402000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Abolition. Feminism. Now. DESCRIPTION:Aviah Sarah Day (Sisters Uncut) in conversation with Gina Dent and Beth Ritchie. \n\n\n\nAbolition. Feminism. Now. is an urgent call for a truly intersectional\, internationalist\, abolitionist feminism. \n\n\n\nThe Black Feminist Bookshop and Housmans are very pleased to announce a joint event to celebrate the publication of Angela Y. Davis\, Gina Dent\, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie’s new book Abolition. Feminism. Now. (published by Penguin). \n\n\n\nGina Dent and Beth Ritchie will be in conversation with lecturer\, activist and a member of the direct action group Sisters Uncut Aviah Sarah Day. \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nAs a politics and as a practice\, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment\, amplified through the worldwide protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a uniformed police officer. It is at the heart of the Black Lives Matter movement\, in its demands for police defunding and demilitarisation\, and a halt to prison construction. And it is there in the outrage which greeted the brutal treatment of women by police at the 2021 Clapham Common vigil for Sarah Everard. \n\n\n\nAs this book shows\, abolitionism and feminism stand shoulder-to-shoulder in fighting a common cause: the end of the carceral state\, with its key role in perpetuating violence\, both public and private\, in prisons\, in police forces\, and in people’s homes. Abolitionist theories and practices are at their most compelling when they are feminist; and a feminism that is also abolitionist is the most inclusive and persuasive version of feminism for these times. \n\n\n\nIn this landmark work\, four of the world’s leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a truly intersectional\, internationalist\, abolitionist feminism. \n\n\n\n‘This extraordinary book makes the most compelling case I’ve ever seen for the indivisibility of feminism and abolition\, for the inseparability of gendered and state violence\, domestic policing and militarism\, the street\, the home\, and the world. Combining decades of analytical brilliance and organizational experience\, the authors offer a genealogy of the movements that brought us here\, lessons learned\, battles won and lost\, and the ongoing collective struggle to build a thoroughly revolutionary vision and practice.’ ROBIN D. G. KELLEY\, AUTHOR OF FREEDOM DREAMS: THE BLACK RADICAL IMAGINATION \n\n\n\n‘In this powerful\, wise and well-crafted book\, filled with insight and provocation\, the authors make it patently and abundantly clear why abolitionist feminism is necessary . . . Attentive to histories of organising that are too quickly erased\, and alive to new possibilities for working collectively in the present time\, this book is as capacious and demanding as the abolitionist feminism it calls for. It gives us a name for what we want. Abolitionism. Now.’ SARA AHMED\, AUTHOR OF WILLFUL SUBJECTS \n\n\n\nAccessibility information: \n\n\n\nThis event will take place online. We will use Closed Captions to subtitle the event. Please get in touch at blackfeministreading@gmail.com with any questions or access needs you would like us to be aware of. \n\n\n\nTicket information: \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans and the Black Feminist Bookshop then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and people who are experiencing economic hardship. \n\n\n\nBlack Feminist Bookshop Patreon members gain access to the book club as part of their membership. More information here. \n\n\n\nHow to access this event online: \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the Black Feminist Bookshop. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\n\n\n\n\nGina Dent is associate professor of feminist studies\, history of consciousness\, and legal studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture\, and lectures and writes on African diaspora literary and cultural studies\, postcolonial theory\, and critical area studies. Her current project Visualizing Abolition grows out of her work as an advocate for transformative and transitional justice and prison abolition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Richie is Professor of Criminology\, Law and Justice and Black Studies\, Sociology\, Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her most recent book is Arrested Justice: Black Women\, Violence and America’s Prison Nation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAviah Sarah Day can be found teaching and researching at Birkbeck\, University of London when working\, and organising in her East London community the rest of the time. She is involved in Sisters Uncut\, a national direct-action collective fighting cuts to domestic violence services and state violence as well as Hackney Cop Watch. She is co-author of the book Abolition Revolution with Shanice McBean\, which is due to be published by Pluto Press autumn 2022. \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/abolition-feminism-now/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Feminist event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ang-davies.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220223T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220223T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20211020T142504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211215T114140Z UID:37599-1645642800-1645648200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Warp & Weft: Psycho-emotional Health\, Politics and Experiences\, with Lisa Fannen [online event] DESCRIPTION:Warp & Weft explores radical frameworks to develop new ways of understanding experiences of distress within social and systemic contexts. \n\n\n\nWarp & Weft gathers together ideas\, radical frameworks and reference points to explore consciousness\, and ways of understanding experiences of distress as they occur within our social and systemic contexts. \n\n\n\nIt looks at what gets called ‘mental health’ and challenges the idea that our experiences of distress\, struggle or variable consciousness are only ‘mental’. It challenges the way biomedicine splits mind from body and soul\, and names that we are embodied beings\, who are shaped by and unfold within the contexts we have inherited and live in. \n\n\n\nIt looks at some of the history of psychiatry and examines the ways it has been\, and continues to be used as a colonial force. It reframes trauma; it looks at the effects of trauma in the bodymindsoul\, acknowledges the intersection of personal and collective trauma\, and explores ways we might move towards healing. \n\n\n\nWarp & Weft considers how we are given cultural ‘scripts’ for experience\, and how we might relanguage experience on our own\, and non-medical terms. Terms which address root causes of distress and point towards holistic approaches\, in order to foster liberatory personal and collective transformation. \n\n\n\n**This event will be a Zoom meeting and will not be recorded* \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nLisa Fannen is a poet and performer\, a bodyworker and community herbalist who has been active for many years in info exchange and organising around holistic and radical health in the context of movement for social justice and liberation. \n\n\n\ninthebody.uk \n\n\n\nlisafannen.uk \n\n\n\nThere is more information about Warp & Weft\, access to a free pdf as well as related online resources at: threadsbook.org \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book Warp & Weft then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP TO THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\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/warp-weft-psycho-emotional-health-politics-and-experiences-with-lisa-fannen-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion group,Feminist event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/warpandweftcoverwebsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220202T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220202T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20211202T164315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220201T134804Z UID:37601-1643828400-1643833800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile\, with Jade Bentil\, Lola Olufemi and Jumanah Younis [online event] DESCRIPTION:Housmans is delighted to announce this special event in partnership with publishers Lawrence Wishart to celebrate the publication of Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile by Marika Sherwood. \n\n\n\nLawrence Wishart editor Jumanah Younis will be chatting to Jade Bentil and Lola Olufemi about the life of visionary and pioneer Claudia Jones. \n\n\n\nBorn in Trinidad\, Claudia’s family moved to Harlem\, New York where Claudia became a leading figure in communist and black politics. Claudia arrived in London in 1955 penniless and friendless. She became active in civil rights campaigns amongst the new West Indian communities established in the capital and launched an annual Carnival (Notting Hill Carnival) to showcase the talents and culture of the Afro-Caribbean community. The book’s particular focus is on the time that Jones spent in Britain. \n\n\n\nClaudia Jones: A Life in Exile is a fitting and long overdue testament to a remarkable woman who was quite simply years ahead of her time \n\n\n\nMarika Sherwood has published many books and articles on the history of Black peoples in Britain. A founder member of the Black and Asian Studies Association\, she remained editor of its newsletter until it ceased publication in 2012. Her latest book is Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War: the West African National Secretariat\, 1945-48\, Pluto Press\, 2019; Sub-Saharan Publishers\, 2020 (with Martin Spafford\, Dan Lyndon & Hakim Adi)\, Explaining the Modern World: Migration\, (OCR GCSE History)\, Hodder Education\, 2016. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nJade Bentil is a Black feminist historian and PhD researcher at the University of Oxford. Her scholarship uses oral history methodologies to centre the experiences of women of African and African-Caribbean descent in Britain and their long history of feminist activism. Jade’s debut book\, REBEL CITIZEN\, uses oral history interviews to explore the lived experiences of Black women who migrated to Britain following the Second World War and is forthcoming from Allen Lane. \n\n\n\nLola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and organiser from London. She is author of Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press\, 2021) and Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press\, 2020). She was shortlisted for the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Fiction and is currently researching for a PhD with the Stuart Hall Foundation. \n\n\n\nJumanah Younis is books editor at Lawrence Wishart and the creator of the Radical Black Women Series. In the past\, she worked as a freelance writer\, translator and editor. She has written for publications including the Guardian\, Red Pepper and the LRB blog. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation link to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. Confirmation emails sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\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/claudia-jones-a-life-in-exile-with-jade-bentil-lola-olufemi-and-jumanah-younis-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Feminist event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/claudia-jones.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20211022T130800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211118T144009Z UID:36550-1637175600-1637181000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s\, with Sheila Rowbotham [online event] DESCRIPTION:In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women’s liberation movement\, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. She reveals the tremendous efforts that were made to transform attitudes and feelings\, as well as daily life. \n\n\n\nAfter addressing the first British Women’s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College\, Oxford in 1970\, she went on to encourage night cleaners to unionise\, to campaign for nurseries and abortion rights. She played an influential role in discussions of socialist feminist ideas and her books and journalism attracted an international readership. \n\n\n\nWritten with generosity and humour Daring to Hope recreates grassroots networks\, communal houses and squats\, bringing alive a shared impetus to organise collectively and to love without jealousy or domination. It conveys the shifts occurring in politics and society through kernels of personal experience. The result is a book about liberation in the widest sense. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nSue O’Sullivan joined the Tufnell Park women’s liberation small group.  At the end of February 1970\, when 8 1/2 months pregnant\, she attended the Ruskin conference in Oxford with her then husband and two-year-old toddler. Fifty years + later she staggers on\, still a feminist\, still a socialist – the same and very different – personally and politically.   Sue has been involved in a number of feminist publishing projects over the years including the WLM’s early Shrew\, then on to Red Rag\, Spare Rib\, Feminist Review\, and ICW News (International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS). Most recently she participated in creating the Hackney HOWLERS (History of Women’s Liberation) Writing Women into History booklet.  She was also a dedicated member of the Sheba Feminist Publisher Collective in the 80s  and has edited\, co-edited\, and written a number of books and pamphlets.  Through it all (or much of it) she’s been active in lesbian feminist\, anti-racist\, and women’s health and sexual politics.  \n\n\n\nSheila Rowbotham who helped start the women’s liberation movement in Britain\, is known internationally as an historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of the ground-breaking books Women\, Resistance and Revolution; Woman’s Consciousness\, Man’s World; and Hidden from History. Her other works include Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century; the biography Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love\, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Biography\, and Rebel Crossings: New Women\, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States. Verso have also reissued her memoir Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties\, as part of the Feminist Classic series. Her latest book is Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s. Her poetry and two plays have been published and she has written for newspapers and journals in Britain\, the US\, Italy\, Brazil\, Turkey\, Sweden and Sri Lanka. She lives in Bristol. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. Ticketholders will also be able to access the event via the eventbrite page. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of Daring to Hope then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP or BUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\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/daring-to-hope-my-life-in-the-1970s-with-sheila-rowbotham-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sheila.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210609T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210609T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20210517T153529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210607T143657Z UID:32628-1623268800-1623272400@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Marks Left on Her - Di Lebowitz in conversation with Minna Salami **POSTPONED** DESCRIPTION:**Due to unforeseen circumstances\, this event has now been postponed and will be part of our autumn events programme. More information to follow soon** \n\n\n\nIn The Marks Left on Her\, Di Lebowitz explores her experiences growing up with mixed heritage in her Hong Kongese family and attempting to navigate a world in which she is misunderstood and mistreated. What began as a means to self-examine after the trauma of a sexual assault grew almost organically into a collection of scribbled-down memories that had been burrowed deep within. The book opens up many important questions about mixed heritage\, parental relationships\, and why the world calls for so many women to be forged by pain.  \n\n\n\nDi will be in conversation with Minna Salami\, internationally-acclaimed feminist author and blogger\, to discuss their books and the importance of intersectional perspectives in feminist spaces and movements\, including the Me Too movement in which Di was inspired to share her story.  \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDi Lebowitz was born and raised in Hong Kong but spent the majority of her adult life in the UK. She is of both Jewish and Hong Kongese descent. The Marks Left on Her is her debut novel.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMultiple award-winning blogger and founder of MsAfropolitan\, Minna Salami is an author\, feminist theorist and lecturer. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed book Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone\, a critical collection of essays exploring universal ideas with an Africa-centred\, decolonial and feminist perspective and translated into several languages. She is co-director of the feminist movement\, Activate\, and a Senior Research Associate at Perspectiva. She sits on the advisory board of the African Feminist Initiative at Pennsylvania State University and the editorial board of the Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Sahel and the Emerge platform. \n\n\n\n\nBuy the book “The Marks Left on Her”\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-marks-left-on-her-di-lebowitz-in-conversation-with-minna-salami-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Feminist event,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/The-Marks-Left-on-Her-cover-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20210225T170248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210325T191035Z UID:31224-1616698800-1616704200@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Disturbing the Body\, with Abi Hynes and Irenosen Okojie DESCRIPTION:Three feminist bookshops have joined forces with Boudicca Press to celebrate ​Disturbing The Body​\, a subversive collection of speculative memoir about misbehaving bodies. \n\n\n\nDisturbing The Body Body ​will launch across three nights\, with​ Lighthouse\, Five Leaves ​and Housmans​ bookshops each hosting a new pairing of writers. \n\n\n\nThe ambitious three-part launch reflects the creativity and character of radical bookshops and the scope of this phenomenal anthology. Taking readers on a bookish journey the length of the country\, it exemplifies theways indies have rallied for each other and for independent presses during the pandemic. \n\n\n\nThe three-part launch picks out common threads from the book to give you the following: \n\n\n\n23rd March with Lighthouse (Edinburgh): Chikọdili Emelumadu and Verity Holloway focus on using genre (horror) to explore women’s bodily experiences. Tickets for this event here. \n\n\n\n24th with Five Leaves (Nottingham): Louise Kenward and Laura Elliott\, on storytelling that explores health\, medicine and disability. Tickets for this event here. \n\n\n\n25th Housmans (London): Irenosen Okojie and Abi Hynes draw on their stories\, the uncanny and fantastical\, to explore feminism and body politics. For tickets for this event\, please see below. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nAbi Hynes is a drama and fiction writer based in Manchester. Her plays have been staged in venues across the UK\, and she is currently working on original audio drama and TV projects. Her short stories have been widely published\, most recently in Black Static\, Lucent Dreaming and Neon Magazine\, and she was shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Novella-in-Flash Award in 2018. She won the Cambridge Short Story Prize in 2020.Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British writer. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Observer\, The Guardian\, the BBC and the Huffington Post\, amongst other publications. Her short story collection Speak Gigantular\, published by Jacaranda Books\, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize\, the Jhalak Prize\, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her new collection of stories\, Nudibranch published by Little Brown’s Dialogue Books\, was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. She is the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for Fiction for her story\, ‘Grace Jones’. http://www.irenosenokojie.com Twitter: @IrenosenOkojieAbout Boudicca PressBoudicca Press is an independent publisher who celebrates the strength\, courage and literary talents of women. They publish weird\, literary and relationship fiction by women in the UK. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-disturbing-the-body-with-abi-hynes-and-irenosen-okojie/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Feminist event,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DisturbingThe-BodyBanner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191031T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191031T200000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20190927T170018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191022T154635Z UID:4735-1572548400-1572552000@housmans.com SUMMARY:FREE EVENT: The Third Annual Housmans Witchy Night DESCRIPTION:Following the success of the previous two years\, your fave feminist witchy night is back! \nExpect witchy tunes\, potions to drink and discount on cool witchy and feminist titles. More info to follow… \nThis event is free\, but to help us manage space\, please RSVP below to nab your spot. \nImage credit and copyright Louise Pomeroy – check out more of her work here! \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.com/event/free-event-the-third-annual-housmans-witchy-night/ CATEGORIES:Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/witchy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190716T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190716T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20190620T161222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190625T162108Z UID:808-1563303600-1563310800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Black Feminist Week: What is Black Feminism in Britain? DESCRIPTION:Black Feminist Week is a week-long event (12th July to 19th July) organised by the Black Feminist Bookshop (a radical space of resistance\, sisterhood and community).  \nBlack feminism – born out of the experiences of Black women – gives us a diverse understanding of social\, cultural and political thinking; helps us to unapologetically and intentionally carve out spaces for marginalised voices; and shows us how to build a community from a place of resistance. In offering a radical perspective on resistance\, resilience and perseverance\, Black Feminism\, ultimately\, gives us the political\, cultural and social revolutionary thinking we need to create an equitable\, kinder\, empathetic society not only for Black women but for everyone who experiences marginalisation and oppression. \nBut what does this look like from a British perspective? Join us for a panel discussion with three contemporary Black British feminists to answer the question\, “What is Black feminism in Britain?”: \nChaired by Jade Bentil\, panellists Aviah Sarah Day\, Emma Dabiri and Chloe Filani\, will discuss activism\, literature and being a Black feminist in Britain today. In (re)focusing the conversation on to the UK\, we can (re)start to mobilise towards a Black British feminist future. \nSpeakers  \nJade Bentil is a London-based Black Feminist Historian\, public speaker and writer. Her scholarship centres the experiences of women of African descent and their long histories of Black feminist activism. Find her on Twitter @divanificent. \nAviah Sarah Day is a member of the East End branch of Sisters Uncut – a national\, feminist direct action group fighting cuts to domestic violence services.She has recently completed her her PhD titled “Partnership and Power: Domestic Violence\, the Women’s Sector and the Criminal Justice System”. She also has several years worth of experience in a range of front line domestic violence services. Aviah is currently researching and campaigning against the increased criminalisation of survivors of domestic violence. Find her on Twitter: @Aviah_Sarah_Day. \nEmma Dabiri is a presenter\, teaching fellow in the Africa department at SOAS and a Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths. She has been published in a number of anthologies and academic journals\, as well as in the national press. She is the author of the book\, Don’t Touch My Hair. The Observer named Emma as one of 2019’s “rising stars to watch”. You can find her on Twitter and on Instagram: @EmmaDabiri. \nChloe Filani is a Black feminist\, Poet\, Performance artist and Public Speaker and workshop facilitator. Working with my lived experiences and the broader themes of identity and power structures. Dealing with ideas of precolonial African trans femme ancestors as stories. She has performed at Tate Britain at a Late at Tate. Spoken at UAL feminist society\, Women of the world festival with BLACK LIVES MATTER at women of the world festival. You can find her on Instagram: @1.chloe.f. \nThe Black Feminist Bookshop: Against a backdrop of oppression\, marginalisation and discrimination\, Black women experience mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression at a higher rate than any other ethnic group. The @blackfeministbookshop is a Black queer woman’s response to the need for a safe and welcoming space where Black women and girls can explore and discuss literary works that centre and reflect the Black female experience. A radical space of resistance\, sisterhood and community for Black women and girls\, it will also be a place for everyone who supports the wellbeing of Black women and girls\, and is committed to transformative social change – one book at a time. \nBlack Feminist Week: a week-long event (re)focusing on Black feminism in the UK. Activists\, organisers\, communities and allies come together to highlight and celebrate Black feminist literature\, thought\, knowledge and history and to (re)imagine a Black British feminist future. \n__________________________________________________________ \nFor Black Feminist Week\, Housmans is giving a 20% discount on Black feminist books. (See in-store for details). Please bring your pre-loved Black Feminist books to donate to the Black Feminist Bookshop. Books to donate: Black feminist books (and books written by Black women in general)\, feminist books by women of colour and books by QTIPOC (queer\, trans and intersex people of colour). Books written for children and young people of colour of all genders. \nTickets available here\nPlease note that tickets for the event are £4 + booking fee   OR   £6 + booking fee which will also allow you entry to the Black Feminist launch event “In conversation with Stella Dadzie” (Friday 12th of July\, 7pm) \nThere is a limited amount of both tickets. \nProceeds from ticket sales will be donated to Imkaan\, a UK-based Black feminist organisation dedicated to addressing violence against Black and minoritised women and girls. \nAny Black woman or Black queer person who is unable to pay for a ticket\, can email cristina[at]housmans[.]com to be put on the guest list**. \n**NB: you can only be put on the guest list for one event. Spaces are limited. \nFollow the Black Feminist Bookshop on Instagram here: @blackfeministbookshop \nGender inclusion policy \nThe Black Feminist Bookshop definition of “women and girls” is trans and intersex inclusive. We welcome all expressions of and identities within Black woman and girlhood. As Black feminists and Black queer feminists\, we recognise that all experiences and expressions of womanhood/girlhood are not the same; and we know it is through diversity that we will build communities of resistance. \nWe are sex worker inclusive. \nAccessibility information for Housmans \nThe door entrance is wide enough for a wheelchair and has no steps. The event will be held on the ground floor. Seating for the event will be portable plastic hard chairs with backs but no arms. There is a non-accessible toilet inside the shop with 2 steps leading to the back section of the shop then 5 steps to the toilet and a fully wheelchair accessible toilet with handrails in the cafe next door which our event attendees have full use of. Both toilets are gender neutral. \nThe address is: Housmans Radical Booksellers\, 5 Caledonian Rd\, London N1 9DY. Kings Cross and St Pancras are the nearest stations and they are both fully accessible. The bookshop is a short distance from a multitude of bus stops. To plan your route\, see here: https://tfl.gov.uk/ \nThere is no parking nearby. \nWe are working on getting a BSL interpreter for the events. \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/black-feminist-week-what-is-black-feminism-in-britain/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/BLACK_FEMINIST_WEEK_instagram_detailed_stella.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190712T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190712T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T092727 CREATED:20190620T161955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190625T105004Z UID:811-1562958000-1562965200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Black Feminist Week: In conversation with Stella Dadzie DESCRIPTION:Black Feminist Week is a week-long event (12th July to 19th July) organised by the Black Feminist Bookshop (a radical space of resistance\, sisterhood and community).  \nJoin us for the launch of Black Feminist Week and an intimate conversation with Stella Dadzie. \nWe will begin with talking about OWAAD (Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent) and the creation of Black feminist/ radical/ womxn/ womanist/ lesbian centred spaces in the 70s and 80s – why did they exist? What were they like? How did they run? What was their impact and why did they eventually disappear? \nWe will bring the conversation forward to the present day to ask if there is still a need for Black feminist spaces and if so\, what should they look like and how do we organise intergenerationally to make them happen? We will end the conversation with focusing on the Black Feminist Bookshop and ultimately asking\, “does London need a Black Feminist Bookshop?” \nAfter Stella has spoken\, we will then open up the conversation to the audience for a Q&A. Once the Q&A is over\, we invite you to stay for drinks and to mingle with a bookshop full of Black feminists and allies. \nSpeakers: \nStella Dadzie is a published writer and historian\, best known for The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s lives in Britain which won the 1985 Martin Luther King Award for Literature.  She is a founder member of OWAAD (Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent). \nHer career as a writer and education activist spans 25 years. She has written numerous publications and resources aimed at promoting an inclusive curriculum and good practice with black adult learners and other minorities. \nShe is well known within the UK for her contribution to tackling youth racism and working with racist perpetrators\, and is a key contributor to the development of anti-racist strategies with schools\, colleges and youth services. In November 2003\, she received the NBM’s award for Outstanding Contributions to Race Equality in Further Education. She has run workshops and spoken at conferences in Germany\, Slovenia\, Poland\, Norway\, South Africa\, the USA\, Hong Kong and Malaysia. \nShe appeared in ‘And Still I Rise’\, a documentary exploring the social and historical origins of stereotypes of African women and was a guest of Germaine Greer on her BBC2 discussion programme ‘The Last Word’. She was also a member of the Mayor of London’s African and Asian Heritage Commission. \nThe Black Feminist Bookshop: Against a backdrop of oppression\, marginalisation and discrimination\, Black women experience mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression at a higher rate than any other ethnic group. The @blackfeministbookshop is a Black queer woman’s response to the need for a safe and welcoming space where Black women and girls can explore and discuss literary works that centre and reflect the Black female experience. A radical space of resistance\, sisterhood and community for Black women and girls\, it will also be a place for everyone who supports the wellbeing of Black women and girls\, and is committed to transformative social change – one book at a time. \nBlack Feminist Week: a week-long event (re)focusing on Black feminism in the UK. Activists\, organisers\, communities and allies come together to highlight and celebrate Black feminist literature\, thought\, knowledge and history and to (re)imagine a Black British feminist future. \n____________________________\n\nFor Black Feminist Week\, Housmans is giving a 20% discount on Black feminist books. (See in-store for details). Please bring your pre-loved Black Feminist books to donate to the Black Feminist Bookshop. Books to donate: Black feminist books (and books written by Black women in general)\, feminist books by women of colour and books by QTIPOC (queer\, trans and intersex people of colour). Books written for children and young people of colour of all genders. \nTickets for the event are: \n£4 + booking fee available here \nOR      \n£6 + booking fee if you purchase a double event entry ticket which will allow you to also attend the event “What is Black Feminism in Britain?”  Please go here to purchase a double event entry ticket. \nThere is a limited amount of both tickets. \nProceeds from ticket sales will be donated to Imkaan\, a UK-based Black feminist organisation dedicated to addressing violence against Black and minoritised women and girls. \nAny Black woman or Black queer person who is unable to pay for a ticket\, can email cristina[at]housmans[.]com to be put on the guest list**. \n**NB: you can only be put on the guest list for one event. Spaces are limited. \nFollow the Black Feminist Bookshop on Instagram here: @blackfeministbookshop \nGender inclusion policy: \nThe Black Feminist Bookshop definition of “women and girls” is trans and intersex inclusive. We welcome all expressions of and identities within Black woman and girlhood. As Black feminists and Black queer feminists\, we recognise that all experiences and expressions of womanhood/girlhood are not the same; and we know it is through diversity that we will build communities of resistance. \nWe are sex worker inclusive. \nAccessibility information for Housmans: \nThe door entrance is wide enough for a wheelchair and has no steps. The event will be held on the ground floor. Seating for the event will be portable plastic hard chairs with backs but no arms. There is a non-accessible toilet inside the shop with 2 steps leading to the back section of the shop then 5 steps to the toilet and a fully wheelchair accessible toilet with handrails in the cafe next door which our event attendees have full use of. Both toilets are gender neutral. \nThere is no parking nearby. \nThe address is: Housmans Radical Booksellers\, 5 Caledonian Rd\, London N1 9DY. Kings Cross and St Pancras are the nearest stations and they are both fully accessible. The bookshop is a short distance from a multitude of bus stops. To plan your route\, see here: https://tfl.gov.uk/ \nWe are working on getting a BSL interpreter for the events. \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/black-feminist-week-in-conversation-with-stella-dadzie/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/BLACK_FEMINIST_WEEK_instagram_detailed_stella.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR