Events
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TALK: NO TO NUCLEAR! Linda Pentz Gunter in conversation with Jonathon Porritt
Featured‘Linda Pentz Gunter has done a great service in highlighting the nuclear chain reaction and exposing the huge human and environmental costs. We need this book for our environment and a peaceful world’ – Jeremy Corbyn We are delighted to welcome Linda Pentz Gunter to Housmans to discuss her new book No To Nuclear. Brilliantly […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: The Migrant Art of Coping by Sohail Jannesari
FeaturedJoin us for an evening with Dr Sohail Jannesari as we discuss his groundbreaking new work of non-fiction, The Migrant Art of Coping. Refugees don’t just survive displacement, they build strength, community, and new ways of coping that challenge everything we know about mental health. The Migrant Art of Coping shares stories of refugees navigating harsh […]
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BOOK TALK: Superweak: Thinking in the 21st Century: Laurent de Sutter in conversation with Alfie Bown
FeaturedUsing the stealth capacities of hermeneutic distrust as his weapon of choice, de Sutter’s writing breaks into unrecovered areas of subtle teachings, shedding light on philosophemes gleaned from Aristotle to punk-led attitude, biojewelry, and the historical buildup of authority billed to the triumph of reason in its many intrusive morphs.— Avital Ronell, New York University […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: The Othered Woman How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women by Shahed Ezaydi
Featured‘An urgent, vital contribution to the feminist conversation – one that tears through the comfortable myth of universal sisterhood’ – Alya Mooro, author of The Greater Freedom Growing up, journalist Shahed Ezaydi was often asked how she could call herself a feminist and still practise her faith. It’s a question that reveals a deeper issue […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: RADICAL JUSTICE: Building the World We Need with Nani Jansen Reventlow
FeaturedHousmans are delighted to be hosting an event around this essential new book -- a stalwart guide to strengthen the movement for freedom and equality for all. Our society is breaking down. Fascists are winning elections, economic inequality is rampant, and the climate crisis is at its tipping point. It feels like the amount of […]
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Marco Perolini launches ‘Migration and Mobile Rights’
Activism, Racial Justice, and Human Rights from Below Please note this an externally organised event. You can RSVP using this link: https://www.easy-rsvp.com/G3uqJ0-book-launch-migration-and-mobile-rights
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SOLD OUT!: Suicide by Roger Hallam
FeaturedSOLD OUT Housmans welcome Roger Hallam to discuss his essential new book: Suicide: The Political and Legal Implications of Creating Endless Mass Death. In the age of climate collapse, telling the truth has become a criminal act. From a cell in Wayland Prison, Roger Hallam—farmer, researcher, and co-founder of Just Stop Oil—delivers a searing indictment […]
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‘Their Wars, Our Dead! Anarchist reflections on anti-militarism since the invasion of Ukraine’, with Jason Brannigan and Declan McCormick
AUTONOMY NOW! PRESENT: 'Their Wars, Our Dead! Anarchist reflections on anti-militarism since the invasion of Ukraine'with Jason Brannigan and Declan McCormick 'Their Wars, Our Dead!' brings together six anarchist responses to war and militarism. The book makes the case that since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a war fever has swept the anarchist movement […]
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POETRY: Jazmine Linklater, Fran Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar and more
FeaturedPlease join us for our second poetry night of the year. This time we celebrate Jazmine Linklater's immense and devastating new long poem 'Snagged on red thread' (published by Monitor). Reading alongside Jazmine we have Fran Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Al Anderson, Harriet Rose and JD Howse. This is a free event, but please RSBP […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: ‘A Studious Use’ with Giovanni Marmont
A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons. Join us for some radical thinking, some real radical autonomist thinking, with one of our favourite publishers, Minor Compositions. Come and celebrate the publication of another vital, alert and mind bending work of theory. A Studious Use invites readers to reconsider the habitual logics and material priorities at […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: POLICING THE BEATS: Lambros Fatsis in conversation with Adèle Oliver
Policing the beats: Black music, racism and criminal injustice We are absolutely delighted to welcome Lambros Fatsis to Housmans to discuss the criminalizing of black culture, music and youth. We are thrilled also to welcome back the brilliant Adèle Oliver, author of 'Deeping it: Colonialism, Culture and Criminalisation of UK Drill', to interview Lambros about […]
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NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES
FeaturedNEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES: CHRISTINE DONOVAN & TOM VAGUE IN CONVERSATION Join 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 […]
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DOG SECTION PRESS PRESENTS: FEMINISMS
Dog Section Press presents an evening of poetry, words and music in celebration of their recent publication: Feminisms. Curated and hosted by Antonia May Cross, featuring book contributors Janey Starling (Yakkie band) & Abu Leila (London Renters Union) and music and poetry from Dream Date and Alice Brady. Feminisms is a collection of ten essays from a diverse milieu of writers […]
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PUBLIC LECTURE: Laurence Housman and the Women’s Suffrage Movement
FeaturedLearn about Housmans' namesake and his efforts to fight for women's suffrage. This free talk is in collaboration UCL, who hold the Laurence Housman archive. Personal items of Housman's taken from the archive will be on display. This public lecture will explore Housmans Bookshop namesake Laurence Housman (1865-1958) and his active role in the women's […]
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BOOK TALK: The Journal of a Kurdish Political Prisoner
FeaturedJoin for a discussion of the journal of Kurdish revolutionary, Ali Poyraz. He spent twenty-one years and four months in Turkish prisons. He was born in 1962 in Bozüyük, an Alevi village in the Gürün district of Sivas. According to Yeni Özgür Politika, his political consciousness was shaped by his older brother, Hüseyin Poyraz (also […]
£2.50 – £27.00
