BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Housmans Bookshop X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211026T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211026T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210914T122052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211002T114140Z UID:37083-1635274800-1635280200@housmans.com SUMMARY:The American Way: Stories of Invasion\, with Fariba Nawa and Bina Shah [online event] DESCRIPTION:75 years of US-led invasions\, CIA-sponsored coups\, election interference\, stay-behind networks\, rendition\, and weapons testing… all in the name of Pax America\, the world’s police. \n\n\n\nHousmans is pleased to announce another “History-into-Fiction” event in collaboration with indie publisher Comma Press. \n\n\n\nThe American Way: Stories of Invasion re-examines US foreign policy with stories that explore the human cost of these interventions on foreign soil\, by writers from that soil. For this special online event\, Fariba Nawa and Bina Shah\, two of the anthology’s contributors will be discussing their stories and the events depicted within. \n\n\n\nBy presenting events from indigenous\, grassroots perspectives\, accompanied by afterwords by the historians that consulted on them\, this book attempts to bring some clarity back to the history of US interventions. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nFariba Nawa is an Afghan-American freelance journalist based in Istanbul. She was born and raised in Afghanistan until she was 9\, then fled the Soviet invasion with her family to the U.S. in the 1980s. She authored Afghanistan Inc. (CorpWatch)\, an oft-cited resource in international debates on the effectiveness of reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. She is also author of Opium Nation (Harper Perennial\, 2011)\, a personal account of the drug trade in Afghanistan and its impact on women. She is the host and chief editor of On Spec podcast.  \n\n\n\nBina Shah is a Karachi-based author of five novels and two collections of short stories. Her latest novel\, Before She Sleeps\, was published by Delphinium Books in August 2018. A regular contributor to The New York Times\, Al Jazeera\, The Huffington Post\, and a frequent guest on the BBC\, she has contributed essays and op-eds to Granta\, The Independent\, and The Guardian\, and writes a regular op-ed column for Dawn\, Pakistan’s biggest English-language newspaper. She works on issues of women’s rights and female empowerment in Pakistan and across Muslim countries. In 2020\, she was awarded the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre des arts et des lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. \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 various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of The American Way 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\nBUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT 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/the-american-way-stories-of-invasion-with-fariba-nawa-and-bina-shah-online-event/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/american-way-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210921T145146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T145149Z UID:34819-1634756400-1634761800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Dystopian Horrors For Survival\, with Alice Sparkly Kat and Don't Tell The Village Elders collective [online event] DESCRIPTION:Join author and astrologer Alice Sparkly Kat and Don’t Tell The Village Elders collective in a Halloween themed workshop about processing dystopia through horror\, poetry\, and spellwork.  \n\n\n\nTogether we’ll explore fear\, grief and transition\, how horror as a genre can act as an ally for processing the dystopian realities we found ourselves in collectively and individually. Be prepared to take part in a writing game\, amateur writers and writers who write for pleasure are welcome.  \n\n\n\nWe hope that this space will give you a place where you are able to grieve and transition in a group setting. Bring your heart\, be ready to write\, and have a functioning keyboard and wifi signal. \n\n\n\nBios:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlice Sparkly Kat is an astrologer. They use astrology to re-chart a history of the subconscious\, redefine the body in the world\, and reimagine history as collective memory. Their astrological work has inhabited MoMA\, Philadelphia Museum of Art\, and The Brooklyn Museum. They’re the author of Postcolonial Astrology.Don’t Tell The Village Elders collective is a network of BPOC practitioners reclaiming our spiritual practices from legacies of colonialism and capitalism. We have a vision for a spirituality and wellness movement centred in deep personal and social change. We come from a variety of backgrounds – including the arts\, activism and occultism and through this network we aim to build a home for those multiplicities and to support each other in discovering more about our connection to divinity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \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 various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of Postcolonial Astrology 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 AND GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\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/dystopian-horrors-for-survival-with-alice-sparkly-kat-and-dont-tell-the-village-elders-collective-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Discussion group,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/POSTCO-AST.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211013T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211013T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210922T125101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T152650Z UID:36849-1634151600-1634157000@housmans.com SUMMARY:In and Against the State: Discussion Notes for Socialists\, with Seth Wheeler [online event] DESCRIPTION:Originally published as a pamphlet in 1979 and again by Pluto in 1980\, In and Against the State brought together questions of working-class struggle and state power\, exploring how revolutionary socialists might reconcile working in the public sector with their radical politics. Informed by autonomist political ideas and practices that were central to the protests of 1968\, the book’s authors spoke to a generation of activists wrestling with the question of where to place their energies. \n\n\n\nForty years have passed\, yet the questions it posed are still to be answered. As the eclipse of Corbynism and the onslaught of the global pandemic have demonstrated with brutal clarity\, a renewed socialist strategy is needed more urgently than ever. \n\n\n\nEditor Seth Wheeler will be joining us online to discuss. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nSeth Wheeler has over 20 years of experience within the domestic and international extra-parliamentary left(s). He is the co-editor of Occupy Everything (Minor Compostions\, 2013)\, co-founder of the communist organisation Plan C\, and a founding editor of the online workerist journal Notes From Below. He has contributed to Novara Media among other publications and is completing his PhD at Royal Holloway\, University of London. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nYou will receive the link to the event content in your order confirmation email\, and in a reminder email before the event starts. However\, access to this event is also available via the event page on eventbrite. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of In and Against the State 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 RSVP option for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nFREE RSVP AND TICKETS via EVENTBRITE HERE\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/in-and-against-the-state-discussion-notes-for-socialists-with-seth-wheeler-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/In-and-against-the-state.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211006T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211006T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210913T161233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T161235Z UID:36554-1633546800-1633552200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice\, with Chris Saltmarsh [online event] DESCRIPTION:Saving the world is not enough; we must build a better one in the process. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome Chris Saltmarsh to virtual Housmans to discuss Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice\, a new addition to the brilliant Outspoken series by radical publishers Pluto Press. \n\n\n\nTime is up. The climate crisis is no longer a future to be feared\, but a devastating reality. \n\n\n\nIn this discussion\, Chris will explore how we’ve arrived at this moment and argue that the profoundly political nature of the environmental crisis has been relentlessly downplayed. He will also analyse the failures of NGOs\, the limitations of Extinction Rebellion and Youth Strikes\, the role of trade unions\, and the possibilities of a Green New Deal.  \n\n\n\nReal change in our lifetime means taking power into our own hands. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nChris Saltmarsh is co-founder of Labour for a Green New Deal. He has written for a wide range of media including Novara Media\, Tribune\, Jacobin\, the Ecologist\, openDemocracy\, Vice and New Internationalist. \n\n\n\nMore speakers tba \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 various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice 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\nBUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT 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/burnt-fighting-for-climate-justice-with-chris-saltmarsh-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Burnt-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210806T113902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210806T154144Z UID:34649-1632942000-1632947400@housmans.com SUMMARY:No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen: Back to the Land in Wartime Britain\, with Ken Worpole [online event] DESCRIPTION:Social historian Ken Worpole uncovers the lost story of Frating Hall Farm\, documenting the passionate religious and political ideals of this back-to-the-land community in wartime and postwar Britain. \n\n\n\nOn ‘Lady Day’\, March 1943 a group of Christian pacifists took possession of a vacant farm in Frating\, a hamlet on the Essex Tendring Peninsula. There they established a working community\, inspired by their association with The Adelphi journal\, where D.H.Lawrence\, John Middleton Murry\, Vera Brittain\, Iris Murdoch\, George Orwell and others shared ideas for the future with European religious radicals such as Nikolai Berdyaev\, Martin Buber and Simone Weil. \n\n\n\nFrating Hall Farm provided a settlement and livelihood for individuals and families (as well as a temporary sanctuary for refugees and prisoners-of-war)\, and over time became a successful arable and livestock land-holding of more than 300 acres. \n\n\n\nWe are pleased to have Ken Worpole at virtual Housmans to discuss the lost story of Frating Hall Farm\, documented in his most recent publication\, No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen\, through the reminiscences of those who grew up on the farm\, together with photographs\, letters and organisational records\, never before seen or published. \n\n\n\nKen Worpole will be in conversation with Anne Johnson. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nKen Worpole is the author of books on architecture\, landscape and social history from a radical perspective. The Independent described him as ‘One of the shrewdest and sharpest observers of the English social landscape\,’ and the New Statesman wrote of his new book\, ‘Worpole is a literary original\, a social and architectural historian whose books combine the Orwellian ideal of common decency with understated erudition.’  \n\n\n\nLike Ken\, Anne Johnson grew up on Canvey Island and both were involved in community publishing in London in the 1970s. A trained English teacher\, Anne has run the Everyday Magic programme in primary schools since 2002\, as well as developing children’s programmes for the City of London Festival\, Imagine Children’s Literature Festival at the South Bank. She has co-written a book with fellow storyteller\, Sef Townsend: ‘London Folk Tales for Children published by The History Press and ‘London’s River Tales for Children’\, which will be out in January 2022. \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 various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen 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\nBUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT 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/no-matter-how-many-skies-have-fallen-back-to-the-land-in-wartime-england-with-ken-worpole-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ken-worpole-bk-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210806T110846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210806T110848Z UID:34658-1632337200-1632342600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator\, with Darryl Cunningham [online event] DESCRIPTION:Join us for the online launch of acclaimed graphic novelist Darryl Cunningham’s biography of Vladimir Putin. \n\n\n\nMaster manipulator or gangster? The malign thrust of Putin’s domestic and foreign policy is exposed in Cunningham’s latest page-turning biography including his early life\, political career\, the wars in Chechnya\, Crimea and the Ukraine\, the crackdown on human rights\, Brexit\, Trump—and the poisonings. \n\n\n\nCunningham shows how the West and its leaders have been culpable in aiding Putin’s rise – Obama being a particular example. By putting all these events into a timeline\, Cunningham aims to show that Putin is opportunistic rather than the master manipulator people make him out to be: ‘He’s essentially a gangster and not a particularly smart one. We need to demythologise Putin if we are to beat him.’ \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nDarryl Cunningham is the award-winning author of Psychiatric Tales\, Science Tales\, Supercrash (a New York Times bestseller)\, Graphic Science and Billionaires\, which won the Best Graphic Nonfiction category in the Broken Frontier Awards 2019. Darryl lives in Wakefield\, West Yorkshire. \n\n\n\nMore speakers tba \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 various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of Putin’s Russia 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\nBUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\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/putins-russia-the-rise-of-a-dictator-with-darryl-cunningham-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Putins-Russia-cover-RGB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210915T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210915T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210806T162316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210826T100248Z UID:34584-1631732400-1631737800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Bi the Way: The Bisexual Guide to Life\, with Lois Shearing [online event] DESCRIPTION:We are very pleased to welcome Lois Shearing to Housmans to discuss bisexuality in celebration of Bi Visibility Day. \n\n\n\nWhether you are openly bisexual\, still figuring things out or just interested in learning more about bisexuality\, Bi the Way is your essential guide to understanding and embracing bisexuality. With first-hand accounts from bi advocates\, it includes practical tips and guidance on topics including dating\, sex\, biphobia\, bi-erasure\, coming out\, activism and gender identity\, demystifying a community that is often erased or overlooked. \n\n\n\nRallying\, honest and powerfully written\, this is a manifesto for bisexual people everywhere. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nLois Shearing is a bi activist\, freelance journalist and writer based in London. They are the founder of the Bisexual Survivors Network and the #DoBetterBiUs campaign\, which aims to challenge biphobia. Their writing on bisexuality has been published by The Independent\, The Advocate\, DIVA magazine\, Gay Star News\, INTO\, and Openly. Bi The Way is their first book. \n\n\n\nVaneet Mehta\, pronouns He/Him\, is an Indian bisexual man born and raised in Southall\, West London. He works as a Software Engineer\, but in his spare time he works within the LGBTQ+ community. He volunteers for Rainbow Films and Middlesex Pride and co-founded The AmBIssadors\, a bisexual YouTube channel\, with Lois. He is also an avid writer\, having been featured in Stonewall\, Metro UK\, Unicorn Magazine and The Bi-ble Volume 2\, a bisexual anthology. He created the #BisexualMenExist hashtag and is currently writing a book on bisexual men and editing a bisexual anthology with Lois. \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 various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of Bi The Way 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\nBUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT 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/bi-the-way-the-bisexual-guide-to-life-with-lois-shearing-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/bi-the-way-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210909T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210909T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210804T160253Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210809T101854Z UID:36364-1631214000-1631219400@housmans.com SUMMARY:How to Stop Fascism: Paul Mason in conversation with Ewa Majewska [online event] DESCRIPTION:History shows us the conditions that breed fascism\, and how it can be successfully overcome. But it is up to us in the present to challenge it. What are we going to do about it? \n\n\n\nWe are pleased to welcome Paul Mason to virtual Housmans to discuss his latest publication\, How to Stop Fascism. Paul will be in conversation with Ewa Majewska\, feminist philosopher\, activist and author of Feminist Antifascism. Counterpublics of the Common. \n\n\n\nThe far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi’s India to Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Erdogan’s Turkey\, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again – and we need to find a better way to fight it. \n\n\n\nBoth a chilling portrait of contemporary fascism\, and a compelling history of the fascist phenomenon\, How to Stop Fascism offers a radical\, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n(c) Juergen Bauer\n\n\n\nPaul Mason is an award-winning journalist\, broadcaster\, and film-maker. Previously economics editor of BBC Newsnight and Channel 4 News\, his books include Clear Bright Future\, PostCapitalism\, a Sunday Times top ten bestseller\, Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere; Live Working or Die Fighting; and Rare Earth: A Novel. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ewa Majewska is a feminist philosopher and activist\, living in Warsaw. She taught at the University of Warsaw and the Jagiellonian University in Kraków\, Poland\, she was also a visiting scholar at the University of California\, Berkeley; ICI Berlin and IWM in Vienna. She published one book in English\, Feminist Antifascism. Counterpublics of the Common\, with Verso\, and four books in Polish\, as well as 50 articles and essays\, in journals\, magazines and collected volumes\, including: e-flux\, Signs\, Third Text\, Journal of Utopian Studies and Jacobin. Her current research is in Hegel’s philosophy\, focusing on the dialectics and the weak; feminist critical theory and antifascist cultures. \n\n\n\nYou can buy a copy of Feminist Antifascism. Counterpublics of the Common here. \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 various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of How to Stop Fascism (hardback) 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\nBUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/how-to-stop-fascism-paul-mason-in-conversation-with-ewa-majewska-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/how-to-stop-fascism-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210907T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210907T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210806T143259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210811T104258Z UID:34413-1631041200-1631046600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Ill Feelings: Stories of Unexplained Illness\, with Alice Hattrick in conversation with Abi Palmer [online event] DESCRIPTION:A moving and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness. \n\n\n\nIn 1995 Alice’s mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was eventually diagnosed with ME\, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then Alice got ill. Their symptoms mirrored their mother’s and appeared to have no physical cause; they received the same diagnosis a few years later.  \n\n\n\nIll Feelings blends memoir\, medical history\, biography and literary non-fiction to uncover both of their case histories\, and branches out into the records of ill health that women have written about in diaries and letters. \n\n\n\nTheir cast of characters includes Virginia Woolf and Alice James\, the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson\, John Ruskin’s lost love Rose la Touche\, the artist Louise Bourgeois and the nurse Florence Nightingale. \n\n\n\nSuffused with a generative\, transcendent rage\, Alice Hattrick’s genre-bending debut is a moving and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness. Alice will be joined in conversation with Abi Palmer\, author of Santatorium. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAlice Hattrick (c) Jacques Testard\n\n\n\nAlice Hattrick‘s criticism and interviews have appeared in publications such as frieze magazine\, ArtReview and The White Review. Alice’s work has most recently been included in Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art: HEALTH (ed. Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz\, 2020) and Mine Searching Yours (Forma\, 2020). They are the co-producer of Access Docs for Artists\, a resource for disabled and/or chronically ill artists\, curators and writers\, made in collaboration with artists Leah Clements and Lizzy Rose. In 2016\, they were shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize. Ill Feelings is their first book. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbi Palmer (c) Faith Aylward and Mia Maxwell\n\n\n\nAbi Palmer is an writer\, artist and filmmaker. Her work often uses multisensory interaction and multiple forms. Notable artworks Crip Casino – an interactive gambling arcade parodying the wellness industry and institutionalised spaces – has been exhibited at Tate Modern\, Somerset House and Wellcome Collection. Her debut book Sanatorium (Penned in the Margins\, 2020) is a fragmented memoir\, jumping between luxury thermal pool\, and blue inflatable bathtub. It was shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize. In 2020 she was awarded an Artangel ‘Thinking Time’ Grant to address the current pandemic. Her current work explores themes of access\, isolation and the urgency of climate change\, through attempting to capture\, distil and convey the entire outside world into small ritualistic performances and sculpture for her indoor cats.www.abipalmer.com \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 various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of Ill Feelings 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\nBUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT 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/ill-feelings-stories-of-unexplained-illness-with-alice-hattrick-in-conversation-with-abi-palmer-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ill-feelings-proper-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210901T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210901T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210811T110453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210811T110457Z UID:34228-1630522800-1630528200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism\, with Amelia Horgan [online event] DESCRIPTION:We are really pleased to have Amelia Horgan join us online to discuss work and capitalism. Lost in Work is part of the outstanding introductory series by radical publisher Pluto Press. \n\n\n\n‘Work hard\, get paid.’ It’s simple. Self-evident. But it’s also a lie – at least for most of us. For people today\, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure\, well-paying job in the future. Far from a gateway to riches and fulfillment\, ‘work’ means precarity\, anxiety and alienation. \n\n\n\nAmelia Horgan poses three big questions: what is work? How does it harm us? And what can we do about it? While abolishing work altogether is not the answer\, Lost in Work shows that when we are able to take control of our workplaces\, we become less miserable\, and can work towards the transformative goal of experimenting with ‘work’ as we know it. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAmelia Horgan is a writer and researcher. She has written for various publications including Tribune\, the Guardian and VICE. \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. 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URL:https://housmans.com/event/lost-in-work-escaping-capitalism-with-amelia-horgan-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/horgan.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210630T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210630T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210127T160530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210630T172754Z UID:28943-1625079600-1625085000@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World - Benjamin Bratton in conversation with Nick Srnicek [online event] DESCRIPTION:Even when separated\, we are still enmeshed. Can the world govern itself differently? \n\n\n\nCOVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations\, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping social restrictions. In contrast\, many Asian countries were able to make much more precise interventions. Everywhere\, lockdown transformed everyday life\, introducing an epidemiological view of society based on sensing\, modeling\, and filtering. What lessons are to be learned? \n\n\n\nThe Revenge of the Real envisions a new positive biopolitics that recognizes that governance is literally a matter of life and death. We are grappling with multiple interconnected dilemmas—climate change\, pandemics\, the tensions between the individual and society—all of which have to be addressed on a planetary scale. \n\n\n\nBratton argues that instead of thinking of biotechnologies as something imposed on society\, we must see them as essential to a politics of infrastructure\, knowledge\, and direct intervention. In this way\, we can build a society based on a new rationality of inclusion\, care\, and prevention. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nBenjamin Bratton is Professor of Visual Arts the University of California\, San Diego. He is Program Director of The Terraforming think-tank at Strelka Institute of Media\, Architecture and Design in Moscow. He is the author of several books\, including The Stack\, which develops a comprehensive political philosophy of planetary-scale computation. See bratton.info. \n\n\n\nNick Srnicek is a Lecturer in Digital Economy at King’s College London. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (Polity\, 2016)\, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Verso\, 2015 with Alex Williams). With Helen Hester\, he is currently writing After Work: The Fight for Free Time (Verso\, 2022). \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\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBuy The Revenge of The Real\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/revenge-of-the-real/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Revenge_of_the_Real-b48d3a1f9bc4adb54524dd9c95097973.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210616T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210616T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210526T124442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210616T172929Z UID:34102-1623870000-1623875400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Transgender Marxism -with Jules Joanne Gleeson\, Elle O'Rourke and Nat Raha in conversation with Shon Faye [online event] DESCRIPTION:The first collection of its kind\, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory. \n\n\n\nHousmans is pleased to welcome Jules Joanne Gleeson\, Elle O’Rourke and Nat Raha to discuss Transgender Marxism. This event will be chaired by Shon Faye. \n\n\n\nExploring trans lives and movements\, this discussion will delve into the experience of surviving as transgender considering the totality of gendered experience under capitalism. \n\n\n\nElle\, Joanne\, Nat and Shon will explore the pressures\, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies\, how they survive the damage done through their tenuous position in the workplace and the home\, and give a powerful response to right-wing scaremongering against ‘gender ideology’. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nJules Joanne Gleeson is a writer\, comedian and historian. She has published essays in outlets including Viewpoint Magazine\, Invert Journal and VICE\, and performed internationally at a wide range of communist and queer cultural events. \n\n\n\nElle O’Rourke is a political economist and gender theorist currently researching critical theories of financialisation. She is co-founder of New Socialist\, a magazine of left thought and commentary\, where she serves as economics co-editor. \n\n\n\nShon Faye was born in Bristol\, and is now based in London. After training as a lawyer\, she left the law to pursue writing and campaigning\, working in the charity sector with Amnesty International and Stonewall. She was an editor-at-large at Dazed\, and her writing has been published by the Guardian\, the Independent and Vice\, among others. Faye recently launched an acclaimed podcast series\, Call Me Mother\, interviewing trailblazing LGBTQ elders. Her first book The Transgender Issue is published by Penguin in September this year. \n\n\n\nNat Raha is a poet based in Edinburgh\, who completed a PhD at the University of Sussex entitled ‘Queer Capital: Marxism in queer theory and post-1950 poetics’. Her current research investigates radical transfeminism\, and race in UK poetry and poetics. She has performed her work internationally\, and is the author of three collections and numerous pamphlets of poetry. Nat is co-editor of the Radical Transfeminism zine. \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 entry ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \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/transgender-marxism-with-jules-joanne-gleeson-and-elle-orourke-in-conversation-with-shon-faye-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/trans-marxism.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210609T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210609T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 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:20210602T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210602T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210517T164705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210603T092633Z UID:31573-1622660400-1622665800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Left Populism in Europe: Lessons From Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos - Marina Prentoulis in conversation with Kate Hudson [online event] DESCRIPTION:What we can do to harness the power of broad-based\, popular left politics? \n\n\n\nWe are really pleased to welcome Marina Prentoulis to virtual Housmans to discuss her new book with Pluto Press\, Left Populism in Europe: Lessons From Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos. Marina will be in conversation with Kate Hudson\, the General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. \n\n\n\n (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)\n\n\n\nSyriza in Greece and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in Britain have both failed to introduce socialism in their countries\, while Podemos has had better fortune in Spain and is now in government with the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party. \n\n\n\nIn this online event\, Marina and Kate will explore left populism across grassroots\, national and European levels. They will consider how each party operates\, the roots of each movement’s base\, the forms of party organisation\, and the particular national contexts. \n\n\n\nRecommended for anyone wanting to understand and move forward positively in a bleak time for the left in Europe. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nMarina Prentoulis is Associate Professor in Politics and Media at the University of East Anglia. She has been the UK spokesperson of Syriza and has given numerous interviews on British and International media including BBC’s Newsnight and the Andrew Marr Show as well as CNN and Sky News. \n\n\n\nKate Hudson is active in the European Left Party\, particularly its working groups on Peace and on Fighting the Far Right. Formerly an academic working in this field she has written extensively on this issue\, including European Communism since 1989 (Macmillan\, 200) and The New European Left (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2012). She is also General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. \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\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/left-populism-in-europe-lessons-from-jeremy-corbyn-to-podemos-marina-prentoulis-in-conversation-with-kate-hudson-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Marina.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210527T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210527T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210408T134246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T165152Z UID:29492-1622142000-1622147400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Paint Your Town Red - Matthew Brown and Rhian E. Jones in conversation with Grace Blakeley DESCRIPTION:Housmans is pleased to welcome Matthew Brown and Rhian E. Jones to discuss Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too\, the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up without waiting for Whitehall.  \n\n\n\nAcross the world\, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic\, less exploitative\, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level through the experience of Matthew Brown\, the driving-force behind the Preston Model. Exploring how different communities around the world are applying similar principles to take back control\, Paint Your Town Red gives us a real blueprint for the wholesale transformation of society.  \n\n\n\n“Paint Your Town Red is a timely reminder that despite years of austerity and neoliberalism there are now genuine economic alternatives emerging in many towns\, cities and regions across the UK.” — John McDonnell\, former Shadow Chancellor \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nMatthew Brown is Labour’s leader of Preston City Council and a Senior Fellow for the Democracy Collaborative\, tasked also with promoting Community Wealth Building across the UK and abroad.Rhian E. Jones is a writer\, historian and author of four books on politics and popular culture. She is an editor at Red Pepper. \n\n\n\nGrace Blakeley is staff writer at Tribune magazine and the author of Stolen and The Corona Crash. \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\, low income and unwaged comrades. \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/paint-your-town-red-matthew-brown-and-rhian-e-jones-in-conversation-with-grace-blakeley/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Paint-your-town.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210526T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210526T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210331T144514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T172820Z UID:28924-1622055600-1622061000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Not Quite Right for Us: Celebrating flipped eye and Speaking Volumes\, with Sharmilla Beezmohun and Colin Grant DESCRIPTION:Housmans is very proud to announce a joint event with flipped eye and Speaking Volumes to celebrate the publication of Not Quite Right for Us\, an anthology featuring 40 international voices talking about outsider-ness. \n\n\n\nThis event is also part of flipped eyes’s 20th anniversary celebrations. Not Quite Right for Us is published in collaboration with Speaking Volumes\, who are also celebrating their 10th anniversary this year. \n\n\n\nSpanning eight thematic areas (childhood\, family\, friends\, work\, travel\, love\, yesterday/today and today/tomorrow)\, the anthology features a huge breadth of contributions\, from autobiographical essays to a short story translated from Bengali\, from fictional email exchanges between authors and editors\, to extracts from theatrical plays and mythological poems. \n\n\n\nIn Not Quite Right for Us new and established writers evoke their own experiences of outsiderness—and defiance against it. Contributors include Kerry Hudson\, Xiaolu Guo\, Aminatta Forna\, Colin Grant\, Nick Makoha\, Byron Vincent\, Rishi Dastidar\, Johny Pitts and Rafeef Ziadah and a foreword by Linton Kwesi Johnson. \n\n\n\nSharmilla Beezmohun\, co-founder of Speaking Volumes and editor of Not Quite Right for Us\, will be in conversation with author and contributor to the anthology Colin Grant. The conversation will be chaired by Mitch Albert\, director of fiction and non-fiction for flipped eye. \n\n\n\nAbout flipped eye \n\n\n\nWinning global acclaim for being a champion of compelling work\, flipped eye publishing has been publishing affordable culture from the margins of British society since 2001. As an incubator for talent\, flipped eye focuses on cultivating potential\, as opposed to producing rapid output\, with publications a manifestation of long-term dialogue between editors and authors over several years. Award-winning authors who were discovered\, developed or launched by flipped eye include Roger Robinson\, Warsan Shire\, Inua Ellams\, Malika Booker\, Miriam Nash\, Nick Makoha and more. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharmilla Beezmohun is the co-founder of Speaking Volumes Live Literature Productions in 2010. Previous work includes eleven years as Deputy Editor of Wasafiri\, the Magazine of International Contemporary Writing\, plus stints at Virago and Heinemann’s African and Caribbean Writers Series among others. She edited Continental Shifts\, Shifts in Perception: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe (2016) and co-edited A Meeting of the Continents: The International Book Fair of Black Radical and Third World Books (2005). She is a Trustee of Carcanet Publishers\, Modern Poetry in Translation magazine and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColin Grant is a non-fiction writer\, historian and broadcaster. His books include: Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation\, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week (2019); A Smell of Burning\, a history of epilepsy and Sunday Times Book of the Year (2016); the memoir Bageye at the Wheel\, shortlisted for the Pen/Ackerley Prize (2013). Grant has written and directed several BBC drama documentaries including A Fountain of Tears: The Murder of Federico Garcia Lorca; and A History of the N Word. He is the director of the new platform WritersMosaic\, launching in April 2021. \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\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/not-quite-right-for-us-celebrating-flipped-eye-and-speaking-volumes-with-sharmilla-beezmohun-and-colin-grant/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Flipped.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210519T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210519T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210504T122318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210504T122508Z UID:32590-1621450800-1621456200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Border Abolition Now: Fortress Europe and the Migration Crisis - Harsha Walia in conversation with Gargi Bhattacharyya and Maya Goodfellow [online event] DESCRIPTION:How do borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial\, capitalist\, and racist rule? \n\n\n\nHousmans is very pleased to announce this joint event with Haymarket Books\, a radical\, independent\, nonprofit book publisher. \n\n\n\nAmidst a global pandemic\, governments around the world have accelerated border closings\, imposed more barriers to asylum seekers\, and expanded immigrant detention. In Border and Rule: Global Migration\, Capitalism\, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism\, Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises\, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of conquest\, capitalist globalization\, and climate change generating mass dispossession worldwide. \n\n\n\nJoin Harsha Walia\, Maya Goodfellow and Gargi Bhattacharyya for a discussion about this timely book. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nGargi Bhattacharyya is one of the UK’s leading scholars on race and capitalism. She is the author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism (2018)\, Dangerous Brown Men (2008)\, Traffick (2005) and co-author of Empire’s Endgame (2020). \n\n\n\nMaya Goodfellow is a writer\, researcher and academic. She has written for the New York Times\, the Guardian\, the New Statesman\, Al Jazeera and the Independent. She is a trustee of the Runnymede Trust. Maya is the author of Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats (2019). \n\n\n\nHarsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) and\, most recently\, Border and Rule. Trained in the law\, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice\, anti-capitalist\, feminist\, and anti-imperialist movements\, including No One Is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. \n\n\n\nTicket information \n\n\n\nThis event will be livestreamed on Haymarket’s YouTube channel. To attend\, please click on link below. \n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by Housmans Bookshop and Haymarket Books. While all of Haymarket’s events are freely available\, they ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of their important organizing\, programming and publishing work. \n\n\n\n\nTo register for this event\, click here\n\n\n\nTo buy a copy of Border & Rule\, 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/border-abolition-now-fortress-europe-and-the-migration-crisis-harsha-walia-in-conversation-with-gargi-bhattacharyya-and-maya-goodfellow-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/harsha.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210505T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210505T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210331T125322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210505T185500Z UID:29441-1620241200-1620246600@housmans.com SUMMARY:White Skin\, Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism - with Andreas Malm\, Laudy van den Heuvel and Anoushka Zoob Carter in conversation with Ash Sarkar DESCRIPTION:What does the rise of the far right mean for the battle against climate change? \n\n\n\nHousmans is pleased to welcome Andreas Malm and Laudy van den Heuvel and Anoushka Zoob Carter from the Zetkin Collective to discuss White Skin\, Black Fuel\, the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis. \n\n\n\nFossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. White Skin\, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation\, revealing its deep historical roots. No one loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing forces have risen to the surface\, some professing to have the solution—closing borders to save the nation as the climate breaks down. \n\n\n\nAndreas\, Laudy and Anoushka will be in conversation with Ash Sarkar\, senior editor at Novara Media. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nAndreas Malm is a scholar of human ecology\, and the author of The Progress of this Storm and of Fossil Capital\, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. \n\n\n\nLaudy van den Heuvel is a Dutch investigative journalist focusing on conspirituality\, libertarianism and health. \n\n\n\nAnoushka Zoob Carter is a researcher based at the University of Sussex\, exploring the nexus between land\, food and right-wing politics. \n\n\n\nLaudy and Anoushka are part of the Zetkin Collective\, a group of scholars\, activists and students working on the political ecology of the far right. \n\n\n\nAsh Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media\, and lectures in political theory at the Sandberg Instituut. \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\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/white-skin-black-fuel-on-the-dangers-of-fossil-fascism-with-andreas-malm-laudy-van-den-heuvel-and-anoushka-zoob-carter-in-conversation-with-ash-sarkar/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/white_skin_black_fuel-86da1b3cc5d3f9526a99f28c98ef5df2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210421T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210421T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210413T111836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210421T140120Z UID:31943-1619031600-1619037000@housmans.com SUMMARY:The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World\, with Kehinde Andrews and Imarn Ayton DESCRIPTION:The West is rich because the Rest is poor. Capitalism is racism. The West congratulates itself on raising poverty by increments in the developing world while ignoring the fact that it created these conditions in the first place\, and continues to perpetuate them. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome Kehinde Andrews and Imarn Ayton to virtual Housmans to discuss Kehinde’s book The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule The World. \n\n\n\nOffering no easy answers\, The New Age of Empire is essential reading to understand our profoundly corrupt global system. A work of essential clarity\, The New Age of Empire is a groundbreaking new blueprint for taking Black Radical thought into the twenty-first century and beyond. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor and educator Kehinde Andrews is one of the leading Black political voices in Britain. He is associate professor in sociology at Birmingham City University\, a regular writer of opinion pieces for the Guardian\, Independent and Ebony magazine\, and editor of the series ‘Blackness in Britain’. He was part of the team that launched the first Black Studies degree in Europe\, and is Co-chair of the Black Studies Association and of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity. He regularly appears on television and radio. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImarn Ayton is an Anti-Racism Activist and founder of the Black Reformist Movement: Imarn Ayton came to prominence during the Black Lives Matter protest on the 31st May\, further to organising several protests including Saturday 6th June with 20.000 people in attendance. Imarn Ayton has become motivational speaker and Racism ‘Thought Leader’ in the process and advocates for tackling Institutional racism in the U.K. \n\n\n\nImarn has featured in numerous Newspapers and magazines including: Guardian\, Evening Standard\, British Vogue\, British GQ\, Elle UK and The Face Magazine.  \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 two available tickets for this event: If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free entry ticket for students\, low income 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/the-new-age-of-empire-how-racism-and-colonialism-still-rule-the-world-with-kehinde-andrews-and-imarn-ayton/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/kehinde.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210414T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210414T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210331T132511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210414T151103Z UID:32609-1618426800-1618432200@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: System Crash - An activist guide to making revolution\, with Neil Faulkner and Simon Hannah [online event] DESCRIPTION:Pandemic\, climate crisis\, endless war\, mega-slums\, police repression\, creeping fascism\, economic stagnation: these shape our world. This book provides hope for an alternative future. \n\n\n\nWe’re really pleased at Housmans to celebrate the launch of the latest offering from Resistance Books. \n\n\n\nSystem Crash is an activist guide to making revolution\, a call to arms. Written by Neil Faulkner\, Phil Hearse\, Nina Fortune\, Rowan Fortune and Simon Hannah\, System Crash argues that revolution – ending the rule of capital and the state – has become an existential necessity. \n\n\n\nCapitalism came into the world\, Marx wrote\, ‘dripping from head to toe\, from every pore\, with blood and dirt’. Now\, the ageing system is putrescent and gangrenous. But the last decade has seen explosions of revolt from below\, firecracking across the globe\, toppling dictators\, resisting austerity\, protesting racism\, defending abortion rights\, fighting for democracy. Here is the embryo of an alternative future. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nNeil Faulkner is a historian and political activist in Anti*Capitalist Resistance. His books include Rome: empire of the eagles\, A Radical History of the World\, A People’s History of the Russian Revolution\, and Creeping Fascism: what it is and how to fight it. He is currently working on A People’s History of the Spanish Civil War.  \n\n\n\nSimon Hannah is a socialist and trade union activist. He is the author of A Party with Socialists in it: a history of the Labour Left\, Can’t Pay – Won’t Pay: the fight to stop the Poll Tax\, and Radical Lambeth. \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\nBook plus event entry £10\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-system-crash-an-activist-guide-to-making-revolution-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SC-front-cover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210408T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210408T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210322T134307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T165005Z UID:32087-1617908400-1617913800@housmans.com SUMMARY:What White People Can Do Next : From Allyship to Coalition - Emma Dabiri in conversation with Mikaela Loach DESCRIPTION:Due to high demand for this event\, we have released an extra batch of tickets including book plus entry\, solidarity tickets and free RSVPs. Please see below. (Updated 6th April 2021) \n\n\n\nWHEN IT COMES TO RACIAL JUSTICE\, HOW DO WE TRANSFORM DEMONSTRATIONS OF SUPPORT INTO REAL AND MEANINGFUL CHANGE? \n\n\n\nThe Black Feminist Bookshop and Housmans are very pleased to announce a joint event to celebrate the publication of academic and broadcaster Emma Dabiri’s new book What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition (published by Penguin). \n\n\n\nWhat White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition is a manifesto for meaningful and lasting change born from the need to talk about racial injustice in a new way. It is a nuanced examination of race\, class and capitalism drawn from years of academic study and lived experience\, as well as personal reflections. \n\n\n\nEmma will be in conversation with climate justice and antiracism activist Mikaela Loach. They will discuss some of the key aspects of What White People Can Do Next: the concept of “race” as one of the most powerful\, seductive and enduring myths of our time\, created to cause division; the origins of ‘whiteness’ and why the myth of a codified ‘white’ race and ‘white supremacy’ was created in the first place. What White People Can Do Next moves the conversation on from the well-intentioned\, yet often mis-informed\, world of Instagram posts and online outrage and asks not for ‘allyship’\, or ‘privilege’ passing\, but for a coalition of common goals. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian academic\, activist\, broadcaster and teaching fellow in the Africa department at SOAS and a Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths. Her 2019 debut Don’t Touch My Hair\, (Penguin) was an Irish Times Bestseller and published to critical and commercial acclaim. The book also inspired a national conversation about race and hair and has led to changing regulations in schools and in the British army. A regular broadcaster on the BBC\, Emma presented ‘Back in Time Brixton’ (BBC2)\, ‘Britain’s Lost Masterpieces’ (BBC4)\, as well as the sociological experiment ‘Is Love Racist?’ (Ch4). Most recently\, she hosted Radio 4’s critically-acclaimed documentary ‘Journeys into Afro-futurism’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMikaela Loach is a climate justice activist\, co-host of The Yikes Podcast\, writer and 4th year medical student based in Edinburgh. In 2020\, Forbes\, Global Citizen and BBC Woman’s Hour named Mikaela as one of the most influential women in the UK climate movement. Her work focuses on making the climate movement more inclusive and focusing on the intersections of the climate crisis with oppressive systems such as white supremacy and migrant injustices. Her activism has been featured in the BBC\, Vogue\, Cosmopolitan\, Elle and VICE. She uses her Instagram platform and The Yikes Podcast to communicate the need for system change\, climate justice and dismantling white supremacy. \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 the Black Feminist Bookshop and 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\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/what-white-people-can-do-next-from-allyship-to-coalition-emma-dabiri-in-conversation-with-mikaela-loach/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/WWPCDN-jacket.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210407T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210407T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210212T163119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210407T182902Z UID:29303-1617822000-1617827400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Come Join Our Disease: Sam Byers in conversation with Juliet Jacques [online event] DESCRIPTION:We are very pleased to announce Sam Byers will be joining Juliet Jacques at this Housmans online event to discuss Sam’s latest novel\, Come join Our Disease (published March 18\, Faber). \nThis darkly comic story follows Maya\, a homeless radical who’s given an opportunity to re-enter society through raising a tech-company’s philanthropic profile. Marred by the oppressive standards of image and ‘perfection’\, Maya -through obscene images and a revolution of sickness-  aims to liberate herself and others from society’s grip.  It’s a tale of resistance\, rebellion and questions what it means to protest against the norm. \nEven more relevant to the past year in particular\, Come Join Our Disease crucially covers a humane view on loneliness and isolation\, the forces of hostility between people and how sickness can be used as a vehicle to examine these and speak to rebellion. \nSpeakers \nSam Byers‘ writing has appeared in Granta\, the New York Times and the Times Literary Supplement. His debut novel Idiopathy was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize and was the winner of a Betty Trask Award. His second novel\, Perfidious Albion was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction\, and shortlisted for the Encore Prize. \nJuliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published two books\, most recently Trans: A Memoir (Verso\, 2015) – her short story collection Variations will be out on Influx Press in June 2021. Her essays\, criticism and journalism have appeared in many publications\, from The London Review of Books to Tribune\, and her short films have screened in galleries and festivals worldwide. She hosts Suite (212) on Resonance 104.4fm – a radio programme that looks at the arts in their social\, cultural\, political and historical contexts. She teaches at the Royal College of Art\, City Lit and elsewhere. \n\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 \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/come-join-our-disease-sam-byers-in-conversation-with-juliet-jacques-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Sam-byers.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210331T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210331T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210212T154010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210331T175359Z UID:28993-1617217200-1617222600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Border Nation: A Story of Migration\, with Leah Cowan in conversation with Kelsey Mohamed [online event] DESCRIPTION:Together\, we can break down borders \nBorders are more than geographical lines – they impact all our lives\, whether it’s the inhumanity of deportations\, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU referendum. Border Nation shows how oppressive borders must be resisted. \nActivist and author Leah Cowan joins us at this Housmans online event to explore the themes of Border Nation\, her new publication for Pluto Press’s Outspoken series. Leah will be in conversation with Kelsey Mohamed from Cradle Community. They will discuss the multiple issues around migration\, exploring its colonial origins and laying bare the web of media myths that vilify migrants. They will also delve into the murky waters of corporate profiteering from borders by companies like G4S and the ramping up of everyday borders through legislation. \nJoin us to find out how people are fighting back to stand up for everyone’s freedom to move. \nSpeakers \nLeah Cowan is the former Politics Editor at the award-winning magazine gal-dem. She works at Project 17\, an advice centre which supports migrant families with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF). She speaks on race\, gender and migration\, including for UN Women\, in the House of Commons\, and at the Trade Unions Congress\, and has written for VICE\, openDemocracy and the Guardian. \nKelsey Mohamed is a facilitator and organiser with Cradle Community and Resist + Renew \n \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\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/border-nation-a-story-of-migration-with-leah-cowan-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/leah.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 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:20210324T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210324T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210212T144924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210317T115743Z UID:28816-1616612400-1616617800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism\, with Jillian C. Yorke in conversation with Adam Greenfield [online event] DESCRIPTION:How do Google\, Facebook and Amazon threaten our democracy? What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? \nJoin leading campaigner Jillian C. Yorke for an exploration of how corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge than any state. Jillian will show how big corporations have become unaccountable censors\, and the devastating impact this has had on those who have been censored. \nWe will discuss how our rights have become increasingly undermined by the major corporations’ desire to harvest our personal data and turn it into profit. Jillian will also look at how governments have used the same technology to monitor citizens and threatened our ability to communicate. \nSpeakers \nJillian C. York is International Activism Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, EFF. She is also a founding member of the feminist collective\, Deep Lab. She has been covering questions of surveillance and freedom since the 2000s. She was named by Foreign Policy as one of the top 100 intellectuals on social media. She has written for the Guardian\, Al Jazeera and Foreign Policy. She is based in Berlin. \nAdam Greenfield spent over a decade working in the design and development of networked digital information technologies\, as lead information architect for the Tokyo office of internet services consultancy Razorfish\, Independent User-Experience Designer and Head of Design Direction for Service and User-Interface Design at Nokia headquarters in Helsinki. \nSelected in 2013 as Senior Urban Fellow at the LSE Cities centre of the London School of Economics\, he has taught in the Urban Design program of the Bartlett\, University College London\, and in New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. \n\n\n\n \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\nBook plus event entry £16.99\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/silicon-values-the-future-of-free-speech-under-surveillance-capitalism-with-jillian-c-yorke-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/silicon.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210317T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210317T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210212T142216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210317T181807Z UID:29610-1616007600-1616013000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism\, with Andrea D'Atri [online event] DESCRIPTION:Is it possible to develop a radical socialist feminism that fights for the emancipation of women and of all humankind? \nHousmans is proud to welcome Andrea D’Atri to discuss her new publication with Pluto Press\, Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism. Join us for a passionate journey through the history of feminism. \nUsing the concrete struggles of women\, Andrea traces the history of the women’s and workers’ movement from the French Revolution to queer theory. She analyses the divergent paths feminists have woven for their liberation from oppression and uncovers where they have hit dead ends. \nWith the global working class made up of a disproportionate number of women\, women are central in leading the charge for the next revolution and laying down blueprints for an alternative future. D’Atri makes a fiery plea for dismantling capitalist patriarchy. \nThis is an online event in Spanish\, interpreting into English provided. \nSpeakers \nAndrea D’Atri is founder of the Women’s organisation\, ‘Pan Y Rosas’ (Bread and Roses) in Argentina. She is an activist\, author\, psychologist and specialist in women’s studies. Pan y Rosas is now one of the largest socialist women’s organizations in the world\, with thousands of activists in various Latin American and European countries. D’Atri is also a leading figure in the Ni Una Menos movement against macho violence and supporting the right to abortion. \nInterpreting into English by Isabel Ros López. Isabel was born a migrant and has been writing poetry and songs since childhood. An anti-imperialist feminist activist since adolescence. She wants to change the world with others\, with you. Peace with social justice. Together. She performs\, does community workshops\, publishes and records when she can; mostly works full time to end violence against women and girls. She says that intersectional feminism rocks! \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 two available tickets for this event: book + event entry and a free access ticket for students and unwaged. \n\n\n\nPlease choose a ticket from below: \n\n\n\n\nBook plus entry ticket £16.99\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/bread-and-roses-gender-and-class-under-capitalism-with-andrea-datri-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Andrea.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210309T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210309T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210202T130318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210219T162534Z UID:28937-1615316400-1615321800@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Care Crisis: Emma Dowling in conversation with Helen Hester [online event] DESCRIPTION:Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change\, we must go so much further. \nWe are pleased to welcome author Emma Dowling to Housmans to discuss her new book\, The Care Crisis\, in which she analyses the multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world\, from the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties\, to the state of the social care system. \nEmma and Helen will discuss the continued off-loading of the cost of care onto the shoulders of underpaid and unpaid realms of society\, untangling how this off-loading combines with commodification\, marketisation and financialisation to produce the mess we are living in. \nSpeakers \nEmma Dowling has lived and worked in London and Birmingham and currently teaches sociology at the University of Vienna. Her writing has appeared in Red Pepper\, New Humanist\, Financial Times\, Open Democracy and Tribune. \nHelen Hester is Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the University of West London. Her research interests include technology\, social reproduction\, and the future of work\, and she is a member of the international feminist working group Laboria Cuboniks. Her books include Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (SUNY Press\, 2014)\, Xenofeminism (Polity\, 2018)\, and After Work: The Politics of Free Time (Verso\, forthcoming\, with Nick Srnicek). \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 purchase the ticket. 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: book plus event entry\, solidarity ticket and free access. Please choose from below: \n\n\n\n\nBook plus entry ticket £16.99\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-care-crisis-emma-dowling-in-conversation-with-helen-hester-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/care-crisis.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210219T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210219T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20201225T144655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210219T190228Z UID:27221-1613761200-1613766600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Introduction to Degrowth with Vincent Liegey\, Anitra Nelson and Derek Wall [online event] DESCRIPTION:Vincent Liegey\, Anitra Nelson and Derek Wall join us online at Housmans to provide an accessible introduction to the degrowth movement. \nThis is a free event. To attend simply RSVP below. Alternatively\, if you would like to support Housmans you can buy a solidarity ticket. \nA sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism\, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer\, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about\, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. \nAs politicians and corporations obsess over growth objectives\, the degrowth movement demands that we must slow down the economy by transforming our economies\, our politics and our cultures to live within the Earth’s limits. \nVincent\, Anitra and Derek will cover the practice and strategies of the movement\, its strengths and weaknesses and will also look at horizontal democracy\, local economies and the reduction of work\, arguing that degrowth is a compelling and realistic project. \nTo buy Exploring Degrowth by Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson (published by Pluto Press)\, click here \nSpeakers \nVincent Liegey is an engineer\, interdisciplinary researcher\, spokesperson for the French degrowth movement and co-author of Un Projet de Décroissance\,  Utopia\, 2013). He is also the coordinator of Cargonomia — a centre for research and experimentation on degrowth\, a social cooperative for sustainable logistical solutions and local food distribution using cargo-bikes in Budapest. \nAnitra Nelson is Honorary Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne\, Australia. She is the author of Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (Pluto\, 2018) and is co-editor of Food for Degrowth (Routledge\, 2020) with Ferne Edwards. \nDerek Wall is the author of numerous books including Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals (Pluto\, 2017)\, Economics After Capitalism (Pluto\, 2015)\, The Rise of the Green Left (Pluto\, 2010) and The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom (Routledge\, 2014). He teaches Political Economy at Goldsmiths College\, University of London and was International Co-ordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales. \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/introduction-to-degrowth-with-anitra-nelson-and-derek-wall-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/degrowth.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210217T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210217T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20210121T160549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T185000Z UID:28921-1613588400-1613593800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited\, Exhausted and Alone\, with Sarah Jaffe [online event] DESCRIPTION:When you love your job so much that you’ll work for next to nothing\, then nothing is exactly what you’ll get. \nWe’re very pleased to welcome Sarah Jaffe to Housmans to discuss the ‘labour of love’ myth: the idea that certain work is not really work\, and should be done for the sake of passion rather than pay. Whether it’s working for free in exchange for ‘experience’\, enduring poor treatment in the name of being ‘part of the family’\, or clocking serious overtime for a good cause\, more and more of us are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do work we enjoy. \nWork Won’t Love You Back examines the lives and experiences of various workers—from the unpaid intern and the overworked teacher\, to the nonprofit employee\, the domestic worker and even the professional athlete—this compelling book reveals how we’ve all been tricked into a new tyranny of work and argues that understanding the labour of love trap will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. \nFor this event\, Sarah will be in conversation with Ray Malone and Kate O’Shea\, two of the workers she interviews in Work Won’t Love You Back. \nPlease join us to take part in this essential conversation on a type of labour which is also very prevalent within radical communities: simply register below for free access or\, if you wish to support Housmans\, you can purchase a solidarity ticket. \nSpeakers \nSarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center fellow and an independent journalist covering the politics of power\, from the workplace to the streets. The author of Necessary Trouble\, she has written for The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Nation and many other outlets. She tweets as @sarahljaffe. \nRay Malone is a creative producer\, theatre director and photographer\, working under the banner of her own theatre and arts collective: Heads Bodies Legs. Her previous experience is varied\, alongside her work as a theatre maker\, she has also worked as a chambermaid\, an ice cream seller\, a barmaid in a strip club\, a governess for wealthy Russians\, a terrible singer and badass single mum. As an activist\, she’s made performances with a number of collectives\, including Act Up London\, Beautiful Trouble\, the NHS Anti-Swindle Team\, and the Fallout Club. In theatre\, she has directed and dramaturged a range of new-writing and site-specific performances\, devising shows with professional and non-professional actors. Ray is currently leading the community arts project: the Molly’s Masquerade at St Margaret’s House in Bethnal Green. \nKate O’Shea is an artist with a social practice which includes printmaking\, the production of social spaces\, collective cooking and publishing. From setting up a social space in the south west of Ireland in 2009 to co-producing SPARE ROOM Art Architecture Activism (www.spareroomproject.ie) with Eve Olney in Cork in 2019\, Kate’s collaborative practice is based on building spaces of solidarity and dialogue in order to explore alternatives to the social relations of capitalism. Kate is currently The Just City Counter Narrative Neighbourhood Residency Awardee with Common Ground\, Dublin 8. Kate’s project How Much is Enough? includes collaborators from all around the world exploring ideas and practices around spatial injustices in multiple cities. This includes an upcoming collaborative exhibition entitled ‘Half Way To Falling’. Along with Victoria Brunetta\, Kate is co-founder of Durty Books (2018 – present) which is a publishing house that has produced two books to date\, providing a critical space for voices who challenge and build alternatives to capitalist hegemony. Kate is developing The People’s Kitchen which is being funded by Arts Council Ireland Artist in Community Scheme\, managed by CREATE. She is consulting artist on We Only Want The Earth 2020 working with A4 Sounds\, Create & MASI. Kate is a member of The Living Commons\, Ireland. \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/work-wont-love-you-back-how-devotion-to-our-jobs-keeps-us-exploited-exhausted-and-alone-with-sarah-jaffe-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/sarah-jaffe-book-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210210T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210210T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T000438 CREATED:20201207T162933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210209T133251Z UID:26294-1612983600-1612989000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Protest: Stories of Resistance with Maxine Peake\, Maggie Gee and Sally Alexander [online event] DESCRIPTION:Housmans Bookshop and Comma Press are delighted to host two online events with renowned British actors Christopher Eccleston and Maxine Peake reading from protest-inspired stories published in Comma’s History-into-Fiction series\, Protest and Resist. \nThe two events will take place on two consecutive dates\, with Christopher reading on the 9th of February and Maxine on the 10th. Both readings will be followed by a conversation between authors and historians discussing the events depicted in the stories read by Christopher and Maxine. \nMaxine will be reading the story ‘Night Cleaners’ Strike’ by Maggie Gee from the Protest anthology. \nPlease read: \nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com stating which book you prefer (Protest or Resist) and let us know whether you would like the book posted or if you would like to collect it from the shop. Please supply a UK address if the book is to be posted out.  \nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it.  \nMore info on Comma’s History-into-Fiction series\, Protest and Resist: \nAt a time of great political disarray – government corruption and incompetence\, the COVID pandemic\, Brexit and new austerity measures looming – we look back to the past to remember the times the people have called it out\, stood up\, resisted! \nFor a nation that brought the world Chartism\, the Suffragettes\, the Tolpuddle Martyrs\, and so many other grassroots social movements\, Britain rarely celebrates its long\, great tradition of people power. Both Protest and Resist are collections of fictions and essays that explore and commemorate key moments of British protest and defiance over the last two millenia. \nWritten in close consultation with historians\, sociologists and eyewitnesses – who also contribute afterwords – these stories follow fictional characters caught up in real-life struggles\, offering a street level perspective on the noble art of resistance. Authors re-imagine campaigns to change unjust laws\, protests against unlawful acts\, uprisings successful and unsuccessful – from Boudica to Blair Peach\, from the Battle of Cable Street to the tragedy of Grenfell Tower\, from the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 to the anti-Iraq War demo of 2003. \nSpeakers \nSally Alexander is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Goldsmiths University of London. Her books include Becoming a Woman: and other essays in 19th and 20th century feminist history (1994)\, and most recently History and Psyche: Culture\, Psychoanalysis\, and the Past\, edited with Barbara Taylor (2012). She was an organiser of the first national UK Women’s Liberation Movement conference held at Ruskin College\, Oxford in 1970\, was a member of several groups in the London Women’s Liberation Workshop\, and among other protests participated in the 1970 Miss World Demonstration. \nMaggie Gee has published 15 books\, including The Ice People\, My Cleaner\, The White Family\, shortlisted for the International Impac and Orange (now Women’s) Prize\, The Blue (stories)\, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan and most recently Blood (2019) which was on the Sunday Times’s ‘Best Literary Novels 2019’ list as well as their ‘Best Summer Reading 2019’ list\,  a black comedy-thriller about angry pre-Brexit Britain. Hilary Mantel described Blood as ‘An astonishing book. Funny and fierce\, written with style and dash\, without fear.’ Maggie has been translated into 15 languages. She has been warning against climate change in her fiction since Where Are the Snows (1991). She is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. The Red Children is forthcoming from Saqi in January 2022. \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/protest-and-resist-stories-of-uprising-and-resistance-with-maxine-peake/ CATEGORIES:Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Maxine-Protest.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR