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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220606T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220606T203000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220419T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220419T210000
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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…
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CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Feminist event,Online event
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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…
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CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion group,Feminist event,Online event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220202T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220202T203000
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Feminist event,Literary Event,Online event
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DTSTAMP:20260620T144255
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…
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CATEGORIES:Feminist event,In Store
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190716T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190716T210000
DTSTAMP:20260620T144255
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…
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CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190712T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190712T210000
DTSTAMP:20260620T144255
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
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