Events
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Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone, with Sarah Jaffe [online event]
When you love your job so much that you’ll work for next to nothing, then nothing is exactly what you’ll get. We're very pleased to welcome Sarah Jaffe to Housmans to discuss the 'labour of love’ myth: the idea that certain work is not really work, and should be done for the sake of passion […]
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Introduction to Degrowth with Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson and Derek Wall [online event]
Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson and Derek Wall join us online at Housmans to provide an accessible introduction to the degrowth movement. This is a free event. To attend simply RSVP below. Alternatively, if you would like to support Housmans you can buy a solidarity ticket. A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth […]
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The Care Crisis: Emma Dowling in conversation with Helen Hester [online event]
Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go so much further. We are pleased to welcome author Emma Dowling to Housmans to discuss her new book, The Care Crisis, in which she analyses the multi-faceted nature of care in the modern […]
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Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism, with Andrea D’Atri [online event]
Is it possible to develop a radical socialist feminism that fights for the emancipation of women and of all humankind? Housmans is proud to welcome Andrea D'Atri to discuss her new publication with Pluto Press, Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism. Join us for a passionate journey through the history of feminism. Using […]
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Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism, with Jillian C. Yorke in conversation with Adam Greenfield [online event]
How do Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our democracy? What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? Join leading campaigner Jillian C. Yorke for an exploration of how corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge than any state. Jillian will show how […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Disturbing the Body, with Abi Hynes and Irenosen Okojie
Three feminist bookshops have joined forces with Boudicca Press to celebrate Disturbing The Body, a subversive collection of speculative memoir about misbehaving bodies. Disturbing The Body Body will launch across three nights, with Lighthouse, Five Leaves and Housmans bookshops each hosting a new pairing of writers. The ambitious three-part launch reflects the creativity and character […]
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Border Nation: A Story of Migration, with Leah Cowan in conversation with Kelsey Mohamed [online event]
Together, we can break down borders Borders are more than geographical lines - they impact all our lives, whether it's the inhumanity of deportations, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU referendum. Border Nation shows how oppressive borders must be resisted. Activist and author Leah Cowan joins us at this […]
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Come Join Our Disease: Sam Byers in conversation with Juliet Jacques [online event]
We are very pleased to announce Sam Byers will be joining Juliet Jacques at this Housmans online event to discuss Sam's latest novel, Come join Our Disease (published March 18, Faber). This darkly comic story follows Maya, a homeless radical who's given an opportunity to re-enter society through raising a tech-company's philanthropic profile. Marred by […]
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What White People Can Do Next : From Allyship to Coalition – Emma Dabiri in conversation with Mikaela Loach
Due to high demand for this event, we have released an extra batch of tickets including book plus entry, solidarity tickets and free RSVPs. Please see below. (Updated 6th April 2021) WHEN IT COMES TO RACIAL JUSTICE, HOW DO WE TRANSFORM DEMONSTRATIONS OF SUPPORT INTO REAL AND MEANINGFUL CHANGE? The Black Feminist Bookshop and Housmans […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: System Crash – An activist guide to making revolution, with Neil Faulkner and Simon Hannah [online event]
Pandemic, climate crisis, endless war, mega-slums, police repression, creeping fascism, economic stagnation: these shape our world. This book provides hope for an alternative future. We're really pleased at Housmans to celebrate the launch of the latest offering from Resistance Books. System Crash is an activist guide to making revolution, a call to arms. Written by […]
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The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World, with Kehinde Andrews and Imarn Ayton
The West is rich because the Rest is poor. Capitalism is racism. The West congratulates itself on raising poverty by increments in the developing world while ignoring the fact that it created these conditions in the first place, and continues to perpetuate them. We are delighted to welcome Kehinde Andrews and Imarn Ayton to virtual […]
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White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism – with Andreas Malm, Laudy van den Heuvel and Anoushka Zoob Carter in conversation with Ash Sarkar
What does the rise of the far right mean for the battle against climate change? Housmans is pleased to welcome Andreas Malm and Laudy van den Heuvel and Anoushka Zoob Carter from the Zetkin Collective to discuss White Skin, Black Fuel, the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis. Fossil-fuelled technologies […]
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Border Abolition Now: Fortress Europe and the Migration Crisis – Harsha Walia in conversation with Gargi Bhattacharyya and Maya Goodfellow [online event]
How do borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial, capitalist, and racist rule? Housmans is very pleased to announce this joint event with Haymarket Books, a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher. Amidst a global pandemic, governments around the world have accelerated border closings, imposed more barriers to asylum seekers, and expanded immigrant detention. […]
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Not Quite Right for Us: Celebrating flipped eye and Speaking Volumes, with Sharmilla Beezmohun and Colin Grant
Housmans is very proud to announce a joint event with flipped eye and Speaking Volumes to celebrate the publication of Not Quite Right for Us, an anthology featuring 40 international voices talking about outsider-ness. This event is also part of flipped eyes's 20th anniversary celebrations. Not Quite Right for Us is published in collaboration with […]
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Paint Your Town Red – Matthew Brown and Rhian E. Jones in conversation with Grace Blakeley
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. Across the world, there is a growing recognition that […]
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