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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220323T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220323T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20220214T141930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220214T143126Z UID:39690-1648062000-1648067400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Small Town Girl\, with Donna McLean [online event] DESCRIPTION:A memoir from a voice at the centre of the Spy Cops scandal \n\n\n\n“You live with someone for two years and then . . . they simply don’t exist.” \n\n\n\nOver four decades\, British undercover police deliberately and systematically started relationships with women in order to infiltrate protest groups. They lived with these women\, some had children with them\, and when the job was done they simply left. \n\n\n\nIt took over ten years for Donna to find out what really happened – and who her fiancee really was. Carlo was an undercover police officer. He targeted Donna and started a relationship with her so he could get close to her activist friends. Carlo had been leading a double life the whole time he was with Donna – with his own wife and son living a short distance away. \n\n\n\nWe have heard very little from the women at the heart of this extraordinary scandal. Most felt forced to accept anonymity. Donna decided to drop her pseudonym last year so she could tell her story in her own words and under her own name. Small Town Girl is that story. \n\n\n\nThe great love story of Donna McLean’s life wasn’t just built on lies\, it was one. With an inquiry underway\, Small Town Girl is a reclamation of a truth that was ruthlessly buried. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nDonna McLean is a working class writer\, activist and mental health practitioner. She has written for several publications including the Guardian\, The Morning Star\, The Independent and the Telegraph. Donna has also published several pieces of short fiction\, including the 2020 anthology The Middle of a Sentence. Small Town Girl is her first book. \n\n\n\nand more tbc \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. 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URL:https://housmans.com/event/small-town-girl-with-donna-mclean-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/small-town-girl-donna-mclean-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220316T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220316T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20211217T151326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211217T151409Z UID:38854-1647457200-1647462600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Reclaiming Economics for Future Generations [online event] DESCRIPTION:How can economics be diversified\, decolonised and democratised? Join us for a discussion on how to reclaim economics. \n\n\n\nHousmans is pleased to present “Reclaiming Economics for Future Generations”\, an event in collaboration with Manchester University Press. \n\n\n\nAcross the world\, economics students are coming together under the banner of the student movement\, Rethinking Economics\, to create a better economics – one which can help to create a world where all our children can flourish regardless of their gender\, background or birthplace. \n\n\n\nAt this event\, we are joined by two researchers from Rethinking Economics: Lucy Ambler and Nicola Scott. Lucy and Nicola are also co-authors alongside Joe Earle of Reclaiming Economics for Future Generations. Drawing on over sixty interviews with students and professionals from identities and backgrounds marginalised in economics and a wide range of global and historical research\, Reclaiming Economics for Future Generations illustrates the ways in which economics is currently not fit for purpose and sets out a vision for how it can be diversified\, decolonised and democratised. \n\n\n\nJoin the discussion to learn how we can reclaim economics to build a better future for everyone. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nLucy Ambler\, Researcher at Rethinking Economics and Intersectionality Advocate\, is a passionate feminist and a campaigner for menstrual health rights following her previous research projects in East Africa. She lives in Manchester with her boyfriend and her ever-growing book collection. \n\n\n\nNicola Scott\, Research Manager at Rethinking Economics\, investigated the political economy of GM crops during her PhD research in Mexico/US\, then published articles for Ethical Consumer about corporate social responsibility. She has taught social science students at university to think critically about what they study. Nicola has been an environmental activist for over fifteen years. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. Ticketholders will also be able to access the zoom link via the eventbrite page. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book Reclaiming Economics for Future Generations then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP TO THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/reclaiming-economics-for-future-generations-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion group,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Reclaiming-Economics-FCQuote.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220309T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220309T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20220223T193052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220223T193054Z UID:38402-1646852400-1646857800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Commoning Care and Collective Power with Manuela Zechner [online event] DESCRIPTION:Childcare Commons and the Micropolitics of Municipalism in Barcelona \n\n\n\nCommoning Care & Collective Power traces the twin genealogies of childcare commons and the micropolitics of municipalism in Barcelona. It shows how grassroots movements engaged new institutional experiments after Spain’s 15M movement\, marked by struggles for social reproduction and a new feminist politics\, leading towards commons municipalisms. Interested in both struggles for and to care\, this book looks across subjective and collective processes. Interdependence and autonomy\, care and micropolitics\, building power and commons\, neighbourhood and city: those are some of the terms brought into resonant tension. \n\n\n\nZechner honours the groundwork of mothers’ networks and commons nurseries\, telling of powerful webs and infrastructures of care in the neighbourhood of Poble Sec. Midwives\, mothers\, carers and councillors prefigure schools and cities of care\, as this book turns to explore how institutions are themselves sites of struggles to care. How to stay with the trouble of embodiment\, interdependence and collective learning\, even within institutional contexts? How might we grapple with the relation between movements and institutions? This book’s interweaving of concepts and experiences traces a powerful cycle of collective learning\, yielding new articulations between the commons and the public\, and channeling new feminist forces. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nManuela Zechner is a researcher\, facilitator and cultural worker. She currently co-produces the Earthcare Fieldcast for translocal and transversal struggles across ecology and care\, and is building a Future Archive since 2005. \n\n\n\nStevphen Shukaitis is an academic worker. He likes to do things with his friends\, some of which end up making books: https://www.minorcompositions.info. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP TO THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\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/commoning-care-and-collective-power-with-manuela-zechner-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/commoningcare.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220302T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220302T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20220117T124344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220228T120615Z UID:38092-1646247600-1646253000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Always Red\, with Len McCluskey [online event] DESCRIPTION:The major autobiography of a central player in a tumultuous period of British political history \n\n\n\nLen McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more than a decade\, he is a unique and powerful figure on the political stage. \n\n\n\nIn this major autobiography\, McCluskey throws back the curtains on life at the top of the Labour movement—with explosive revelations about his dealings with Keir Starmer\, the behind-the-scenes battles of the Corbyn era\, his secret Brexit negotiations with Theresa May’s government\, the spectacular bust-up with his former friend Tom Watson\, and his tortuous relationship with Ed Miliband. \n\n\n\nMcCluskey is no run-of-the-mill trade unionist. Fiercely political\, unflinchingly left wing\, he is a true workers’ leader. His politics were formed in Liverpool at a time of dock strikes\, the Beatles\, and the May 1968 revolution in Paris. An eyewitness to the Hillsborough tragedy\, he recounts in harrowing detail searching for his son. \n\n\n\nWitty and sharp\, McCluskey delivers a powerful intervention\, issuing a manifesto for the future of trade unionism and urging the left not to lose sight of class politics. \n\n\n\nA central player in a tumultuous period of British political history\, McCluskey’s account is an essential—and entertaining—record of our times. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nLen McCluskey\, general secretary of Unite the Union for more than a decade\, is a trade unionist from Liverpool. Elected a shop steward on the Liverpool docks aged 19\, he rose through the Transport and General Workers’ Union before playing an instrumental role in the creation of Unite. As its leader\, he became a national political figure and a powerful influence in the Labour Party. He is a lifelong supporter of Liverpool Football Club and the author of Why You Should Be A Trade Unionist. \n\n\n\n Chloe Schlosberg\, Director of Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace and Justice Project  \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n TO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP TO THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/always-red-with-len-mccluskey-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/LM-cover-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220223T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220223T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20211020T142504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211215T114140Z UID:37599-1645642800-1645648200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Warp & Weft: Psycho-emotional Health\, Politics and Experiences\, with Lisa Fannen [online event] DESCRIPTION:Warp & Weft explores radical frameworks to develop new ways of understanding experiences of distress within social and systemic contexts. \n\n\n\nWarp & Weft gathers together ideas\, radical frameworks and reference points to explore consciousness\, and ways of understanding experiences of distress as they occur within our social and systemic contexts. \n\n\n\nIt looks at what gets called ‘mental health’ and challenges the idea that our experiences of distress\, struggle or variable consciousness are only ‘mental’. It challenges the way biomedicine splits mind from body and soul\, and names that we are embodied beings\, who are shaped by and unfold within the contexts we have inherited and live in. \n\n\n\nIt looks at some of the history of psychiatry and examines the ways it has been\, and continues to be used as a colonial force. It reframes trauma; it looks at the effects of trauma in the bodymindsoul\, acknowledges the intersection of personal and collective trauma\, and explores ways we might move towards healing. \n\n\n\nWarp & Weft considers how we are given cultural ‘scripts’ for experience\, and how we might relanguage experience on our own\, and non-medical terms. Terms which address root causes of distress and point towards holistic approaches\, in order to foster liberatory personal and collective transformation. \n\n\n\n**This event will be a Zoom meeting and will not be recorded* \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nLisa Fannen is a poet and performer\, a bodyworker and community herbalist who has been active for many years in info exchange and organising around holistic and radical health in the context of movement for social justice and liberation. \n\n\n\ninthebody.uk \n\n\n\nlisafannen.uk \n\n\n\nThere is more information about Warp & Weft\, access to a free pdf as well as related online resources at: threadsbook.org \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book Warp & Weft then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP TO THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/warp-weft-psycho-emotional-health-politics-and-experiences-with-lisa-fannen-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion group,Feminist event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/warpandweftcoverwebsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220216T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220216T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20211223T151730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211223T151732Z UID:37798-1645038000-1645043400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Post-Internet Far Right [online event] DESCRIPTION:How has the far right changed since the rise of the internet? How can we be ready for it? \n\n\n\nWe are very pleased to announce this event in collaboration with Dog Section Press for one of Housmans bestselling titles of 2021: Post-Internet Far Right. \n\n\n\nWe’ll be joined by Sam Moore and Alex Roberts\, authors of Post-Internet Far Right and hosts of12 Rules for WHAT\, a podcast and writing project about the far right. \n\n\n\nSam and Alex will be discussing how the the far right has changed since the rise of the internet\, causing the decline of some formations and the break-up of others. \n\n\n\nBut the far right has not gone away – far from it – it is more powerful now than it has been for a generation. It has produced new configurations of tactics\, priorities\, and goals. Those who have survived the arrival of the internet have found a greater capacity to exert power than at any point since the Second World War. \n\n\n\nThe far right is in a state of productive diversification. It has yet to cohere around a new stable formulation; however\, it almost certainly will\, and we must be ready for it. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nSam Moore and Alex Roberts\, authors of Post-Internet Far Right and hosts of12 Rules for WHAT\, a podcast and writing project about the far right. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of Post-Internet Far Right then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO RSVP OR BUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/post-internet-far-right-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion group,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/PIFR_promoBurley_Insta.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220209T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220209T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20211206T164442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220207T141051Z UID:37608-1644433200-1644438600@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic\, with Paolo Gerbaudo [online event] DESCRIPTION:What comes after Neoliberalism? \n\n\n\nIn these times of health emergency\, economic collapse\, populist anger and ecological threat\, societies are forced to turn inward in search of protection. Neoliberalism\, the ideology that presided over decades of market globalisation\, is on trial\, while state intervention is making a spectacular comeback amid lockdowns\, mass vaccination programmes\, deficit spending and climate planning. \n\n\n\nWe are joined by sociologist and political theorist Paolo Gerbaudo to explore the themes of his latest publication: The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic (Verso) in which he fleshes out the contours of the different statisms and populisms that inform contemporary politics. \n\n\n\nThe central issue in dispute is what mission the post-pandemic state should pursue and how socialists may turn the present phase of involution into an opportunity for social transformation. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nPaolo Gerbaudo is a sociologist and political theorist based at King’s College London where he acts as Director of the Centre for Digital Culture. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets\, The Mask and the Flag and The Digital Party. He has written for the New Statesman\, Guardian\, and other publications. \n\n\n\nJames Meadway is director of the Progressive Economy Forum and former advisor to shadow chancellor John McDonnell. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book The Great Recoil then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP TO THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/the-great-recoil-politics-after-populism-and-pandemic-with-paolo-gerbaudo-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/gerbaudo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220202T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220202T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20211202T164315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220201T134804Z UID:37601-1643828400-1643833800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile\, with Jade Bentil\, Lola Olufemi and Jumanah Younis [online event] DESCRIPTION:Housmans is delighted to announce this special event in partnership with publishers Lawrence Wishart to celebrate the publication of Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile by Marika Sherwood. \n\n\n\nLawrence Wishart editor Jumanah Younis will be chatting to Jade Bentil and Lola Olufemi about the life of visionary and pioneer Claudia Jones. \n\n\n\nBorn in Trinidad\, Claudia’s family moved to Harlem\, New York where Claudia became a leading figure in communist and black politics. Claudia arrived in London in 1955 penniless and friendless. She became active in civil rights campaigns amongst the new West Indian communities established in the capital and launched an annual Carnival (Notting Hill Carnival) to showcase the talents and culture of the Afro-Caribbean community. The book’s particular focus is on the time that Jones spent in Britain. \n\n\n\nClaudia Jones: A Life in Exile is a fitting and long overdue testament to a remarkable woman who was quite simply years ahead of her time \n\n\n\nMarika Sherwood has published many books and articles on the history of Black peoples in Britain. A founder member of the Black and Asian Studies Association\, she remained editor of its newsletter until it ceased publication in 2012. Her latest book is Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War: the West African National Secretariat\, 1945-48\, Pluto Press\, 2019; Sub-Saharan Publishers\, 2020 (with Martin Spafford\, Dan Lyndon & Hakim Adi)\, Explaining the Modern World: Migration\, (OCR GCSE History)\, Hodder Education\, 2016. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nJade Bentil is a Black feminist historian and PhD researcher at the University of Oxford. Her scholarship uses oral history methodologies to centre the experiences of women of African and African-Caribbean descent in Britain and their long history of feminist activism. Jade’s debut book\, REBEL CITIZEN\, uses oral history interviews to explore the lived experiences of Black women who migrated to Britain following the Second World War and is forthcoming from Allen Lane. \n\n\n\nLola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and organiser from London. She is author of Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press\, 2021) and Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press\, 2020). She was shortlisted for the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Fiction and is currently researching for a PhD with the Stuart Hall Foundation. \n\n\n\nJumanah Younis is books editor at Lawrence Wishart and the creator of the Radical Black Women Series. In the past\, she worked as a freelance writer\, translator and editor. She has written for publications including the Guardian\, Red Pepper and the LRB blog. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation link to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. Confirmation emails sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/claudia-jones-a-life-in-exile-with-jade-bentil-lola-olufemi-and-jumanah-younis-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Feminist event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/claudia-jones.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220127T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220127T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20211206T160359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T100711Z UID:38231-1643310000-1643315400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Suburban Socialism (or Barbarism)\, with Oly Durose [online event] DESCRIPTION:Reflecting on his own landslide loss in conservative suburbia\, Oly Durose asks how we can transform the urban outskirts of the status quo into centres of transformative change. \n\n\n\nIn December 2019\, Oly Durose lost by over 25\,000 votes as the Labour Party Parliamentary Candidate for Brentwood & Ongar. Revealing what it’s like to stand on a socialist platform in one of the safest Conservative seats in the UK\, this book makes the case for socialism in the suburbs\, unveils the challenges of its electoral realisation\, and proposes a strategic revolution required to win. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nOly Durose is a socialist activist\, parliamentary researcher and writer. In the 2019 UK General Election\, he stood as the Labour Party Parliamentary Candidate for Brentwood & Ongar. In February 2020\, he was a Caucus Site Leader for the Bernie Sanders Campaign in Nevada. \n\n\n\nRhian E. Jones is a writer\, critic and broadcaster from South Wales on history\, politics and popular culture. She is co-editor of Red Pepper and writes for Tribune magazine. Her books include Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender\, Petticoat Heroes: Gender\, Culture and Popular Protest\, Triptych: Three Studies of Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible\, the anthology of women’s music writing Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book Suburban Socialism (or Barbarism) then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP FOR THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/suburban-socialism-or-barbarism-with-oly-durose-online-event/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/9fe5f7dd-8723-46d3-a3b2-fafad4f0961f-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20211208T134500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T134328Z UID:38187-1643223600-1643229000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Uncontrollable Women: Radicals\, Reformers and Revolutionaries\, with Nan Sloane [online event] DESCRIPTION:Author Nan Sloane charts the history of forgotten women revolutionaries between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and 1832. \n\n\n\nWe’re pleased to welcome author Nan Sloane to virtual Housmans for the book launch of Uncontrollable Women: Radicals\, Reformers and Revolutionaries. \n\n\n\nUncontrollable Women is a history of radical\, reformist and revolutionary women between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Very few of them are well-known today; some were unknown even in their own day. All of them contributed something to the world we now inhabit. \n\n\n\nAt a time when women were supposed to leave politics to men they spoke\, wrote\, marched\, organised\, asked questions\, challenged power structures\, sometimes went to prison and even died. History has not usually been kind to them\, and they have frequently been pushed into asides or footnotes\, dismissed as secondary\, or spoken over\, for\, or through by men and sometimes other women. These are their stories. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nNan Sloane is an author\, speaker and trainer with an interest in the role of women in the public space\, particularly in politics and the Labour Party. Her previous books include The Women In the Room: Labour’s Forgotten History (2018)\, In Our Own Words: A Dictionary of Women’s Political Quotations (2016)\, and A Great Act of Justice: The Flapper Election and After (2009). \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation link to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book Uncontrollable Women then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. 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URL:https://housmans.com/event/uncontrollable-women-radicals-reformers-and-revolutionaries-with-nan-sloane-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/nan-sloane-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220119T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220119T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20211219T173736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T100622Z UID:38441-1642618800-1642624200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Here to Stay: Eastern Europeans in Britain\, with Yva Alexandrova [online event] DESCRIPTION:How have attitudes to immigration and Eastern Europeans changed in the last twenty years in the wake of Brexit? \n\n\n\nOnce again we team up with one of our favourite radical indie publishers\, Repeater Books\, this time to explore how attitudes to Eastern European immigration have changed in the UK in the years leading up to Brexit. \n\n\n\nIn Here to Stay Bulgarian writer and international migration expert Yva Alexandrova tells the story of Eastern Europeans in the UK\, and argues that progressive politics needs to be grounded in migrants’ actual experiences and not political expediency. \n\n\n\nYva will discuss the new wave of nativism that has swept across Britain\, and make a passionate and vivid argument for migrants as full participants in social and political life. \n\n\n\nHere to Stay avoids the usual racist vox-pops and sensationalist political debate and instead tells the stories of the people whose voices rarely feature in debates about immigration: the migrants themselves. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nYva Alexandrova is a Bulgarian writer and migration expert. She was Head of Policy and Campaigns for the charity Asylum Aid and an organiser for the People’s Assembly campaign group. \n\n\n\nDaniel Trilling is a regular contributor to The Guardian and the London Review of Books. He is the author of Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe and Bloody Nasty People: the Rise of Britain’s Far Right \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book Here to Stay then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO RSVP OR BUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/here-to-stay-eastern-europeans-in-britain-with-yva-alexandrova-online-event/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/yva-cover.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20211022T130800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211118T144009Z UID:36550-1637175600-1637181000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s\, with Sheila Rowbotham [online event] DESCRIPTION:In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women’s liberation movement\, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. She reveals the tremendous efforts that were made to transform attitudes and feelings\, as well as daily life. \n\n\n\nAfter addressing the first British Women’s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College\, Oxford in 1970\, she went on to encourage night cleaners to unionise\, to campaign for nurseries and abortion rights. She played an influential role in discussions of socialist feminist ideas and her books and journalism attracted an international readership. \n\n\n\nWritten with generosity and humour Daring to Hope recreates grassroots networks\, communal houses and squats\, bringing alive a shared impetus to organise collectively and to love without jealousy or domination. It conveys the shifts occurring in politics and society through kernels of personal experience. The result is a book about liberation in the widest sense. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nSue O’Sullivan joined the Tufnell Park women’s liberation small group.  At the end of February 1970\, when 8 1/2 months pregnant\, she attended the Ruskin conference in Oxford with her then husband and two-year-old toddler. Fifty years + later she staggers on\, still a feminist\, still a socialist – the same and very different – personally and politically.   Sue has been involved in a number of feminist publishing projects over the years including the WLM’s early Shrew\, then on to Red Rag\, Spare Rib\, Feminist Review\, and ICW News (International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS). Most recently she participated in creating the Hackney HOWLERS (History of Women’s Liberation) Writing Women into History booklet.  She was also a dedicated member of the Sheba Feminist Publisher Collective in the 80s  and has edited\, co-edited\, and written a number of books and pamphlets.  Through it all (or much of it) she’s been active in lesbian feminist\, anti-racist\, and women’s health and sexual politics.  \n\n\n\nSheila Rowbotham who helped start the women’s liberation movement in Britain\, is known internationally as an historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of the ground-breaking books Women\, Resistance and Revolution; Woman’s Consciousness\, Man’s World; and Hidden from History. Her other works include Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century; the biography Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love\, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Biography\, and Rebel Crossings: New Women\, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States. Verso have also reissued her memoir Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties\, as part of the Feminist Classic series. Her latest book is Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s. Her poetry and two plays have been published and she has written for newspapers and journals in Britain\, the US\, Italy\, Brazil\, Turkey\, Sweden and Sri Lanka. She lives in Bristol. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. Ticketholders will also be able to access the event via the eventbrite page. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of Daring to Hope then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP or BUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/daring-to-hope-my-life-in-the-1970s-with-sheila-rowbotham-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sheila.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20211007T143851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211007T150323Z UID:35651-1636570800-1636576200@housmans.com SUMMARY:VETERANHOOD\, with Joe Glenton in conversation with Matt Kennard [online event] DESCRIPTION:The military veteran is claimed by all sides. Conservatives\, liberals and socialists all want to speak about and for ex-servicemen\, yet far-right demonstrations are dotted with berets and medals and ex-military men have become celebrities of the reactionary manosphere. \n\n\n\nSo who are Britain’s ex-servicemen? What do they want? What are their politics? What are the issues which animate them? Are they just irredeemable fascists by dint of their service to Empire? Or is there a radical political potential waiting to be unlocked? \n\n\n\nFormer soldier Joe Glenton takes us on a guided tour through ex-forces life at the heart of a dead empire as he attempts to demystify military culture\, rescue the veteran from his captors\, and discover if a more optimistic\, humanist mode of veteranhood can be recovered from the ruins. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nJoe Glenton is a journalist\, film-maker and award-winning author. He was a British soldier from 2004 to 2010\, serving in Afghanistan. He has written on defence\, war and the military for Declassified UK\, The Independent\, The Guardian\, VICE and others. \n\n\n\nMatt Kennard is head of investigations at Declassified UK and the author of Irregular Army and The Racket and has previously written for New Statesman\, The Guardian\, the Financial Times\, openDemocracy and The Intercept. \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. Ticketholders will also be able to access the event via the eventbrite page. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book Veteranhood then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP OR BUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\n\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/veteranhood-with-joe-glenton-and-matt-kennard-in-conversation-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/veteranhood.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211103T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211103T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20211026T161541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211027T162514Z UID:36101-1635969600-1635973200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Abolishing the Police\, with Koshka Duff and contributors [online event] DESCRIPTION:Join the editor and contributors of the essay collection “Abolishing the Police” for an exploration of anti-police theory and practice. \n\n\n\nWe’re very pleased to host this event on behalf of Dog Section Press\, the publishers of Abolishing the Police\, one of Housmans’ biggest selling titles of 2021 so far. \n\n\n\nWe’ll be joined by Koshka Duff\, the editor of Abolishing the Police\, and various contributors\, as they discuss why we might want to abolish the police\, what abolishing them would involve\, and how it might be achieved. Koshka and panellists will also explore the rich existing traditions of anti-police theory and practice. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nKoshka Duff is a lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Nottingham and campaigns against police strip search abuse. \n\n\n\nAbolishing the Police contributors Becka Hudson\, Eddie Bruce-Jones\, Chris Rossdale and Sarah Lamble. \n\n\n\n***Please note this event starts at the later time of 8pm*** \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. Ticketholders can also access the event via the eventbrite page. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book Abolishing the Police 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 RSVP ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP OR BUY 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/abolishing-the-police-with-koshka-duff-and-contributors-online-event/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_173535939_565702711233_1_original.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 CREATED:20211002T131937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211006T123741Z UID:34956-1635361200-1635366600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Green Social Housing: A Virtual Panel on Housing and Sustainability DESCRIPTION:How can we meet a housing crisis while reducing the materials we use? \n\n\n\nHousmans is very pleased to announce a joint event with It’s Freezing in LA!\, the critically acclaimed independent magazine about climate change. \n\n\n\nWe know well that a green future requires a radical transformation to the spaces we live in. From avoiding the use of virgin materials to reducing the energy we use in them\, climate-safe management of homes and houses is a lot more than eye-catching green walls. But how can we hard-wire safe\, affordable and decent homes into this shift? How can we meet a housing crisis while reducing the materials we use? \n\n\n\nIn this new panel we hear from a range of green thinkers and activists about what the climate crisis means for social housing and affordable homes. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nLeila Sackur [Chair] is a freelance writer and member of the editorial team at It’s Freezing in LA. She writes about culture\, cities and politics\, and is currently studying at the UCL Urban Lab. \n\n\n\nTwitter: @leila_sackur \n\n\n\nPronouns: she/her \n\n\n\nJosh Fenton is a freelance writer and essayist based in Birmingham. He was a New Architecture Writer and co-founder of Afterparti Zine\, an architecture-infused collective that explores big ideas about contemporary urban space through the lenses of identity and race. \n\n\n\nTwitter: @JFenton_R \n\n\n\nPronouns: he/him \n\n\n\nFiona MacDonald and Matthew Springett – Matt + Fiona is an organisation that works with young people to understand how their built environment might be improved and empower them to bring that vision to life. http://mattandfiona.org \n\n\n\n@fi_macdonald; @MattFionaBUILD \n\n\n\nAdam Almeida is a researcher with the Centre for Labour and Social Studies. His report ‘Pushed to the Margins’ maps the process of gentrification in London throughout the 2010s\, measuring population churn\, racial demographics\, house prices and health data. His work supports rent controls\, and the ‘right of return’ to all residents living in council estates undergoing regeneration schemes. \n\n\n\n@adammarqalmeida \n\n\n\n Pronouns: he/him \n\n\n\nLuke Murphy – Luke heads IPPR’s Environmental Justice Commission and leads the Energy\, Climate\, Housing and Infrastructure team. Luke has worked for the Labour party as a policy and political adviser for a shadow secretary of state and successive shadow housing ministers leading their work on housing\, also working on local government and devolution. He has worked on policy and advocacy projects for the Living Wage Foundation and a leading housing association. \n\n\n\nLuke Murphy | IPPR \n\n\n\n@lukesmurphy \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. Ticketholders will also be able to access the event via the eventbrite page. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the latest issue of It’s Freezing in LA! (issue 8) included in your ticket then choose the IFLA plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free RSVP ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP OR BUY 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/freezing-in-la/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Housmans.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211026T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211026T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T191739 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:20260403T191739 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:20260403T191739 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:20260403T191739 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:20260403T191739 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. 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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:20260403T191739 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:20260403T191739 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:20260403T191739 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:20260403T191739 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:20260403T191739 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. 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. \n\n\n\nIf you are able to and wish 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/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:20260403T191739 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:20260403T191739 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:20260403T191739 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:20260403T191739 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:20260403T191739 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 END:VCALENDAR