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:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210901T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210901T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 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:20260403T185524 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:20260403T185524 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:20260403T185524 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:20260403T185524 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:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210408T134246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T165152Z UID:29492-1622142000-1622147400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Paint Your Town Red - Matthew Brown and Rhian E. Jones in conversation with Grace Blakeley DESCRIPTION:Housmans is pleased to welcome Matthew Brown and Rhian E. Jones to discuss Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too\, the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up without waiting for Whitehall.  \n\n\n\nAcross the world\, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic\, less exploitative\, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level through the experience of Matthew Brown\, the driving-force behind the Preston Model. Exploring how different communities around the world are applying similar principles to take back control\, Paint Your Town Red gives us a real blueprint for the wholesale transformation of society.  \n\n\n\n“Paint Your Town Red is a timely reminder that despite years of austerity and neoliberalism there are now genuine economic alternatives emerging in many towns\, cities and regions across the UK.” — John McDonnell\, former Shadow Chancellor \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nMatthew Brown is Labour’s leader of Preston City Council and a Senior Fellow for the Democracy Collaborative\, tasked also with promoting Community Wealth Building across the UK and abroad.Rhian E. Jones is a writer\, historian and author of four books on politics and popular culture. She is an editor at Red Pepper. \n\n\n\nGrace Blakeley is staff writer at Tribune magazine and the author of Stolen and The Corona Crash. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/paint-your-town-red-matthew-brown-and-rhian-e-jones-in-conversation-with-grace-blakeley/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Paint-your-town.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210526T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210526T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210331T144514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T172820Z UID:28924-1622055600-1622061000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Not Quite Right for Us: Celebrating flipped eye and Speaking Volumes\, with Sharmilla Beezmohun and Colin Grant DESCRIPTION:Housmans is very proud to announce a joint event with flipped eye and Speaking Volumes to celebrate the publication of Not Quite Right for Us\, an anthology featuring 40 international voices talking about outsider-ness. \n\n\n\nThis event is also part of flipped eyes’s 20th anniversary celebrations. Not Quite Right for Us is published in collaboration with Speaking Volumes\, who are also celebrating their 10th anniversary this year. \n\n\n\nSpanning eight thematic areas (childhood\, family\, friends\, work\, travel\, love\, yesterday/today and today/tomorrow)\, the anthology features a huge breadth of contributions\, from autobiographical essays to a short story translated from Bengali\, from fictional email exchanges between authors and editors\, to extracts from theatrical plays and mythological poems. \n\n\n\nIn Not Quite Right for Us new and established writers evoke their own experiences of outsiderness—and defiance against it. Contributors include Kerry Hudson\, Xiaolu Guo\, Aminatta Forna\, Colin Grant\, Nick Makoha\, Byron Vincent\, Rishi Dastidar\, Johny Pitts and Rafeef Ziadah and a foreword by Linton Kwesi Johnson. \n\n\n\nSharmilla Beezmohun\, co-founder of Speaking Volumes and editor of Not Quite Right for Us\, will be in conversation with author and contributor to the anthology Colin Grant. The conversation will be chaired by Mitch Albert\, director of fiction and non-fiction for flipped eye. \n\n\n\nAbout flipped eye \n\n\n\nWinning global acclaim for being a champion of compelling work\, flipped eye publishing has been publishing affordable culture from the margins of British society since 2001. As an incubator for talent\, flipped eye focuses on cultivating potential\, as opposed to producing rapid output\, with publications a manifestation of long-term dialogue between editors and authors over several years. Award-winning authors who were discovered\, developed or launched by flipped eye include Roger Robinson\, Warsan Shire\, Inua Ellams\, Malika Booker\, Miriam Nash\, Nick Makoha and more. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharmilla Beezmohun is the co-founder of Speaking Volumes Live Literature Productions in 2010. Previous work includes eleven years as Deputy Editor of Wasafiri\, the Magazine of International Contemporary Writing\, plus stints at Virago and Heinemann’s African and Caribbean Writers Series among others. She edited Continental Shifts\, Shifts in Perception: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe (2016) and co-edited A Meeting of the Continents: The International Book Fair of Black Radical and Third World Books (2005). She is a Trustee of Carcanet Publishers\, Modern Poetry in Translation magazine and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColin Grant is a non-fiction writer\, historian and broadcaster. His books include: Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation\, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week (2019); A Smell of Burning\, a history of epilepsy and Sunday Times Book of the Year (2016); the memoir Bageye at the Wheel\, shortlisted for the Pen/Ackerley Prize (2013). Grant has written and directed several BBC drama documentaries including A Fountain of Tears: The Murder of Federico Garcia Lorca; and A History of the N Word. He is the director of the new platform WritersMosaic\, launching in April 2021. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/not-quite-right-for-us-celebrating-flipped-eye-and-speaking-volumes-with-sharmilla-beezmohun-and-colin-grant/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Flipped.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210519T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210519T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210504T122318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210504T122508Z UID:32590-1621450800-1621456200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Border Abolition Now: Fortress Europe and the Migration Crisis - Harsha Walia in conversation with Gargi Bhattacharyya and Maya Goodfellow [online event] DESCRIPTION:How do borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial\, capitalist\, and racist rule? \n\n\n\nHousmans is very pleased to announce this joint event with Haymarket Books\, a radical\, independent\, nonprofit book publisher. \n\n\n\nAmidst a global pandemic\, governments around the world have accelerated border closings\, imposed more barriers to asylum seekers\, and expanded immigrant detention. In Border and Rule: Global Migration\, Capitalism\, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism\, Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises\, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of conquest\, capitalist globalization\, and climate change generating mass dispossession worldwide. \n\n\n\nJoin Harsha Walia\, Maya Goodfellow and Gargi Bhattacharyya for a discussion about this timely book. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nGargi Bhattacharyya is one of the UK’s leading scholars on race and capitalism. She is the author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism (2018)\, Dangerous Brown Men (2008)\, Traffick (2005) and co-author of Empire’s Endgame (2020). \n\n\n\nMaya Goodfellow is a writer\, researcher and academic. She has written for the New York Times\, the Guardian\, the New Statesman\, Al Jazeera and the Independent. She is a trustee of the Runnymede Trust. Maya is the author of Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats (2019). \n\n\n\nHarsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) and\, most recently\, Border and Rule. Trained in the law\, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice\, anti-capitalist\, feminist\, and anti-imperialist movements\, including No One Is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. \n\n\n\nTicket information \n\n\n\nThis event will be livestreamed on Haymarket’s YouTube channel. To attend\, please click on link below. \n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by Housmans Bookshop and Haymarket Books. While all of Haymarket’s events are freely available\, they ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of their important organizing\, programming and publishing work. \n\n\n\n\nTo register for this event\, click here\n\n\n\nTo buy a copy of Border & Rule\, click here\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/border-abolition-now-fortress-europe-and-the-migration-crisis-harsha-walia-in-conversation-with-gargi-bhattacharyya-and-maya-goodfellow-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/harsha.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210505T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210505T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210331T125322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210505T185500Z UID:29441-1620241200-1620246600@housmans.com SUMMARY:White Skin\, Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism - with Andreas Malm\, Laudy van den Heuvel and Anoushka Zoob Carter in conversation with Ash Sarkar DESCRIPTION:What does the rise of the far right mean for the battle against climate change? \n\n\n\nHousmans is pleased to welcome Andreas Malm and Laudy van den Heuvel and Anoushka Zoob Carter from the Zetkin Collective to discuss White Skin\, Black Fuel\, the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis. \n\n\n\nFossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. White Skin\, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation\, revealing its deep historical roots. No one loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing forces have risen to the surface\, some professing to have the solution—closing borders to save the nation as the climate breaks down. \n\n\n\nAndreas\, Laudy and Anoushka will be in conversation with Ash Sarkar\, senior editor at Novara Media. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nAndreas Malm is a scholar of human ecology\, and the author of The Progress of this Storm and of Fossil Capital\, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. \n\n\n\nLaudy van den Heuvel is a Dutch investigative journalist focusing on conspirituality\, libertarianism and health. \n\n\n\nAnoushka Zoob Carter is a researcher based at the University of Sussex\, exploring the nexus between land\, food and right-wing politics. \n\n\n\nLaudy and Anoushka are part of the Zetkin Collective\, a group of scholars\, activists and students working on the political ecology of the far right. \n\n\n\nAsh Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media\, and lectures in political theory at the Sandberg Instituut. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/white-skin-black-fuel-on-the-dangers-of-fossil-fascism-with-andreas-malm-laudy-van-den-heuvel-and-anoushka-zoob-carter-in-conversation-with-ash-sarkar/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/white_skin_black_fuel-86da1b3cc5d3f9526a99f28c98ef5df2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210421T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210421T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210413T111836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210421T140120Z UID:31943-1619031600-1619037000@housmans.com SUMMARY:The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World\, with Kehinde Andrews and Imarn Ayton DESCRIPTION:The West is rich because the Rest is poor. Capitalism is racism. The West congratulates itself on raising poverty by increments in the developing world while ignoring the fact that it created these conditions in the first place\, and continues to perpetuate them. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome Kehinde Andrews and Imarn Ayton to virtual Housmans to discuss Kehinde’s book The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule The World. \n\n\n\nOffering no easy answers\, The New Age of Empire is essential reading to understand our profoundly corrupt global system. A work of essential clarity\, The New Age of Empire is a groundbreaking new blueprint for taking Black Radical thought into the twenty-first century and beyond. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor and educator Kehinde Andrews is one of the leading Black political voices in Britain. He is associate professor in sociology at Birmingham City University\, a regular writer of opinion pieces for the Guardian\, Independent and Ebony magazine\, and editor of the series ‘Blackness in Britain’. He was part of the team that launched the first Black Studies degree in Europe\, and is Co-chair of the Black Studies Association and of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity. He regularly appears on television and radio. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImarn Ayton is an Anti-Racism Activist and founder of the Black Reformist Movement: Imarn Ayton came to prominence during the Black Lives Matter protest on the 31st May\, further to organising several protests including Saturday 6th June with 20.000 people in attendance. Imarn Ayton has become motivational speaker and Racism ‘Thought Leader’ in the process and advocates for tackling Institutional racism in the U.K. \n\n\n\nImarn has featured in numerous Newspapers and magazines including: Guardian\, Evening Standard\, British Vogue\, British GQ\, Elle UK and The Face Magazine.  \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are two available tickets for this event: If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free entry ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/the-new-age-of-empire-how-racism-and-colonialism-still-rule-the-world-with-kehinde-andrews-and-imarn-ayton/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/kehinde.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210414T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210414T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210331T132511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210414T151103Z UID:32609-1618426800-1618432200@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: System Crash - An activist guide to making revolution\, with Neil Faulkner and Simon Hannah [online event] DESCRIPTION:Pandemic\, climate crisis\, endless war\, mega-slums\, police repression\, creeping fascism\, economic stagnation: these shape our world. This book provides hope for an alternative future. \n\n\n\nWe’re really pleased at Housmans to celebrate the launch of the latest offering from Resistance Books. \n\n\n\nSystem Crash is an activist guide to making revolution\, a call to arms. Written by Neil Faulkner\, Phil Hearse\, Nina Fortune\, Rowan Fortune and Simon Hannah\, System Crash argues that revolution – ending the rule of capital and the state – has become an existential necessity. \n\n\n\nCapitalism came into the world\, Marx wrote\, ‘dripping from head to toe\, from every pore\, with blood and dirt’. Now\, the ageing system is putrescent and gangrenous. But the last decade has seen explosions of revolt from below\, firecracking across the globe\, toppling dictators\, resisting austerity\, protesting racism\, defending abortion rights\, fighting for democracy. Here is the embryo of an alternative future. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nNeil Faulkner is a historian and political activist in Anti*Capitalist Resistance. His books include Rome: empire of the eagles\, A Radical History of the World\, A People’s History of the Russian Revolution\, and Creeping Fascism: what it is and how to fight it. He is currently working on A People’s History of the Spanish Civil War.  \n\n\n\nSimon Hannah is a socialist and trade union activist. He is the author of A Party with Socialists in it: a history of the Labour Left\, Can’t Pay – Won’t Pay: the fight to stop the Poll Tax\, and Radical Lambeth. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBook plus event entry £10\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-system-crash-an-activist-guide-to-making-revolution-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SC-front-cover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210408T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210408T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210322T134307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T165005Z UID:32087-1617908400-1617913800@housmans.com SUMMARY:What White People Can Do Next : From Allyship to Coalition - Emma Dabiri in conversation with Mikaela Loach DESCRIPTION:Due to high demand for this event\, we have released an extra batch of tickets including book plus entry\, solidarity tickets and free RSVPs. Please see below. (Updated 6th April 2021) \n\n\n\nWHEN IT COMES TO RACIAL JUSTICE\, HOW DO WE TRANSFORM DEMONSTRATIONS OF SUPPORT INTO REAL AND MEANINGFUL CHANGE? \n\n\n\nThe Black Feminist Bookshop and Housmans are very pleased to announce a joint event to celebrate the publication of academic and broadcaster Emma Dabiri’s new book What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition (published by Penguin). \n\n\n\nWhat White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition is a manifesto for meaningful and lasting change born from the need to talk about racial injustice in a new way. It is a nuanced examination of race\, class and capitalism drawn from years of academic study and lived experience\, as well as personal reflections. \n\n\n\nEmma will be in conversation with climate justice and antiracism activist Mikaela Loach. They will discuss some of the key aspects of What White People Can Do Next: the concept of “race” as one of the most powerful\, seductive and enduring myths of our time\, created to cause division; the origins of ‘whiteness’ and why the myth of a codified ‘white’ race and ‘white supremacy’ was created in the first place. What White People Can Do Next moves the conversation on from the well-intentioned\, yet often mis-informed\, world of Instagram posts and online outrage and asks not for ‘allyship’\, or ‘privilege’ passing\, but for a coalition of common goals. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian academic\, activist\, broadcaster and teaching fellow in the Africa department at SOAS and a Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths. Her 2019 debut Don’t Touch My Hair\, (Penguin) was an Irish Times Bestseller and published to critical and commercial acclaim. The book also inspired a national conversation about race and hair and has led to changing regulations in schools and in the British army. A regular broadcaster on the BBC\, Emma presented ‘Back in Time Brixton’ (BBC2)\, ‘Britain’s Lost Masterpieces’ (BBC4)\, as well as the sociological experiment ‘Is Love Racist?’ (Ch4). Most recently\, she hosted Radio 4’s critically-acclaimed documentary ‘Journeys into Afro-futurism’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMikaela Loach is a climate justice activist\, co-host of The Yikes Podcast\, writer and 4th year medical student based in Edinburgh. In 2020\, Forbes\, Global Citizen and BBC Woman’s Hour named Mikaela as one of the most influential women in the UK climate movement. Her work focuses on making the climate movement more inclusive and focusing on the intersections of the climate crisis with oppressive systems such as white supremacy and migrant injustices. Her activism has been featured in the BBC\, Vogue\, Cosmopolitan\, Elle and VICE. She uses her Instagram platform and The Yikes Podcast to communicate the need for system change\, climate justice and dismantling white supremacy. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support the Black Feminist Bookshop and Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/what-white-people-can-do-next-from-allyship-to-coalition-emma-dabiri-in-conversation-with-mikaela-loach/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/WWPCDN-jacket.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210407T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210407T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210212T163119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210407T182902Z UID:29303-1617822000-1617827400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Come Join Our Disease: Sam Byers in conversation with Juliet Jacques [online event] DESCRIPTION:We are very pleased to announce Sam Byers will be joining Juliet Jacques at this Housmans online event to discuss Sam’s latest novel\, Come join Our Disease (published March 18\, Faber). \nThis darkly comic story follows Maya\, a homeless radical who’s given an opportunity to re-enter society through raising a tech-company’s philanthropic profile. Marred by the oppressive standards of image and ‘perfection’\, Maya -through obscene images and a revolution of sickness-  aims to liberate herself and others from society’s grip.  It’s a tale of resistance\, rebellion and questions what it means to protest against the norm. \nEven more relevant to the past year in particular\, Come Join Our Disease crucially covers a humane view on loneliness and isolation\, the forces of hostility between people and how sickness can be used as a vehicle to examine these and speak to rebellion. \nSpeakers \nSam Byers‘ writing has appeared in Granta\, the New York Times and the Times Literary Supplement. His debut novel Idiopathy was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize and was the winner of a Betty Trask Award. His second novel\, Perfidious Albion was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction\, and shortlisted for the Encore Prize. \nJuliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published two books\, most recently Trans: A Memoir (Verso\, 2015) – her short story collection Variations will be out on Influx Press in June 2021. Her essays\, criticism and journalism have appeared in many publications\, from The London Review of Books to Tribune\, and her short films have screened in galleries and festivals worldwide. She hosts Suite (212) on Resonance 104.4fm – a radio programme that looks at the arts in their social\, cultural\, political and historical contexts. She teaches at the Royal College of Art\, City Lit and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/come-join-our-disease-sam-byers-in-conversation-with-juliet-jacques-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Sam-byers.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210331T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210331T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210212T154010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210331T175359Z UID:28993-1617217200-1617222600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Border Nation: A Story of Migration\, with Leah Cowan in conversation with Kelsey Mohamed [online event] DESCRIPTION:Together\, we can break down borders \nBorders are more than geographical lines – they impact all our lives\, whether it’s the inhumanity of deportations\, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU referendum. Border Nation shows how oppressive borders must be resisted. \nActivist and author Leah Cowan joins us at this Housmans online event to explore the themes of Border Nation\, her new publication for Pluto Press’s Outspoken series. Leah will be in conversation with Kelsey Mohamed from Cradle Community. They will discuss the multiple issues around migration\, exploring its colonial origins and laying bare the web of media myths that vilify migrants. They will also delve into the murky waters of corporate profiteering from borders by companies like G4S and the ramping up of everyday borders through legislation. \nJoin us to find out how people are fighting back to stand up for everyone’s freedom to move. \nSpeakers \nLeah Cowan is the former Politics Editor at the award-winning magazine gal-dem. She works at Project 17\, an advice centre which supports migrant families with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF). She speaks on race\, gender and migration\, including for UN Women\, in the House of Commons\, and at the Trade Unions Congress\, and has written for VICE\, openDemocracy and the Guardian. \nKelsey Mohamed is a facilitator and organiser with Cradle Community and Resist + Renew \n \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/border-nation-a-story-of-migration-with-leah-cowan-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/leah.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210225T170248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210325T191035Z UID:31224-1616698800-1616704200@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Disturbing the Body\, with Abi Hynes and Irenosen Okojie DESCRIPTION:Three feminist bookshops have joined forces with Boudicca Press to celebrate ​Disturbing The Body​\, a subversive collection of speculative memoir about misbehaving bodies. \n\n\n\nDisturbing The Body Body ​will launch across three nights\, with​ Lighthouse\, Five Leaves ​and Housmans​ bookshops each hosting a new pairing of writers. \n\n\n\nThe ambitious three-part launch reflects the creativity and character of radical bookshops and the scope of this phenomenal anthology. Taking readers on a bookish journey the length of the country\, it exemplifies theways indies have rallied for each other and for independent presses during the pandemic. \n\n\n\nThe three-part launch picks out common threads from the book to give you the following: \n\n\n\n23rd March with Lighthouse (Edinburgh): Chikọdili Emelumadu and Verity Holloway focus on using genre (horror) to explore women’s bodily experiences. Tickets for this event here. \n\n\n\n24th with Five Leaves (Nottingham): Louise Kenward and Laura Elliott\, on storytelling that explores health\, medicine and disability. Tickets for this event here. \n\n\n\n25th Housmans (London): Irenosen Okojie and Abi Hynes draw on their stories\, the uncanny and fantastical\, to explore feminism and body politics. For tickets for this event\, please see below. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nAbi Hynes is a drama and fiction writer based in Manchester. Her plays have been staged in venues across the UK\, and she is currently working on original audio drama and TV projects. Her short stories have been widely published\, most recently in Black Static\, Lucent Dreaming and Neon Magazine\, and she was shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Novella-in-Flash Award in 2018. She won the Cambridge Short Story Prize in 2020.Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British writer. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Observer\, The Guardian\, the BBC and the Huffington Post\, amongst other publications. Her short story collection Speak Gigantular\, published by Jacaranda Books\, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize\, the Jhalak Prize\, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her new collection of stories\, Nudibranch published by Little Brown’s Dialogue Books\, was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. She is the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for Fiction for her story\, ‘Grace Jones’. http://www.irenosenokojie.com Twitter: @IrenosenOkojieAbout Boudicca PressBoudicca Press is an independent publisher who celebrates the strength\, courage and literary talents of women. They publish weird\, literary and relationship fiction by women in the UK. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-disturbing-the-body-with-abi-hynes-and-irenosen-okojie/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Feminist event,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DisturbingThe-BodyBanner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210324T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210324T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210212T144924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210317T115743Z UID:28816-1616612400-1616617800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism\, with Jillian C. Yorke in conversation with Adam Greenfield [online event] DESCRIPTION:How do Google\, Facebook and Amazon threaten our democracy? What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? \nJoin leading campaigner Jillian C. Yorke for an exploration of how corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge than any state. Jillian will show how big corporations have become unaccountable censors\, and the devastating impact this has had on those who have been censored. \nWe will discuss how our rights have become increasingly undermined by the major corporations’ desire to harvest our personal data and turn it into profit. Jillian will also look at how governments have used the same technology to monitor citizens and threatened our ability to communicate. \nSpeakers \nJillian C. York is International Activism Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, EFF. She is also a founding member of the feminist collective\, Deep Lab. She has been covering questions of surveillance and freedom since the 2000s. She was named by Foreign Policy as one of the top 100 intellectuals on social media. She has written for the Guardian\, Al Jazeera and Foreign Policy. She is based in Berlin. \nAdam Greenfield spent over a decade working in the design and development of networked digital information technologies\, as lead information architect for the Tokyo office of internet services consultancy Razorfish\, Independent User-Experience Designer and Head of Design Direction for Service and User-Interface Design at Nokia headquarters in Helsinki. \nSelected in 2013 as Senior Urban Fellow at the LSE Cities centre of the London School of Economics\, he has taught in the Urban Design program of the Bartlett\, University College London\, and in New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBook plus event entry £16.99\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/silicon-values-the-future-of-free-speech-under-surveillance-capitalism-with-jillian-c-yorke-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/silicon.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210317T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210317T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210212T142216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210317T181807Z UID:29610-1616007600-1616013000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism\, with Andrea D'Atri [online event] DESCRIPTION:Is it possible to develop a radical socialist feminism that fights for the emancipation of women and of all humankind? \nHousmans is proud to welcome Andrea D’Atri to discuss her new publication with Pluto Press\, Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism. Join us for a passionate journey through the history of feminism. \nUsing the concrete struggles of women\, Andrea traces the history of the women’s and workers’ movement from the French Revolution to queer theory. She analyses the divergent paths feminists have woven for their liberation from oppression and uncovers where they have hit dead ends. \nWith the global working class made up of a disproportionate number of women\, women are central in leading the charge for the next revolution and laying down blueprints for an alternative future. D’Atri makes a fiery plea for dismantling capitalist patriarchy. \nThis is an online event in Spanish\, interpreting into English provided. \nSpeakers \nAndrea D’Atri is founder of the Women’s organisation\, ‘Pan Y Rosas’ (Bread and Roses) in Argentina. She is an activist\, author\, psychologist and specialist in women’s studies. Pan y Rosas is now one of the largest socialist women’s organizations in the world\, with thousands of activists in various Latin American and European countries. D’Atri is also a leading figure in the Ni Una Menos movement against macho violence and supporting the right to abortion. \nInterpreting into English by Isabel Ros López. Isabel was born a migrant and has been writing poetry and songs since childhood. An anti-imperialist feminist activist since adolescence. She wants to change the world with others\, with you. Peace with social justice. Together. She performs\, does community workshops\, publishes and records when she can; mostly works full time to end violence against women and girls. She says that intersectional feminism rocks! \n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are two available tickets for this event: book + event entry and a free access ticket for students and unwaged. \n\n\n\nPlease choose a ticket from below: \n\n\n\n\nBook plus entry ticket £16.99\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/bread-and-roses-gender-and-class-under-capitalism-with-andrea-datri-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Andrea.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210309T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210309T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210202T130318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210219T162534Z UID:28937-1615316400-1615321800@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Care Crisis: Emma Dowling in conversation with Helen Hester [online event] DESCRIPTION:Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change\, we must go so much further. \nWe are pleased to welcome author Emma Dowling to Housmans to discuss her new book\, The Care Crisis\, in which she analyses the multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world\, from the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties\, to the state of the social care system. \nEmma and Helen will discuss the continued off-loading of the cost of care onto the shoulders of underpaid and unpaid realms of society\, untangling how this off-loading combines with commodification\, marketisation and financialisation to produce the mess we are living in. \nSpeakers \nEmma Dowling has lived and worked in London and Birmingham and currently teaches sociology at the University of Vienna. Her writing has appeared in Red Pepper\, New Humanist\, Financial Times\, Open Democracy and Tribune. \nHelen Hester is Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the University of West London. Her research interests include technology\, social reproduction\, and the future of work\, and she is a member of the international feminist working group Laboria Cuboniks. Her books include Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (SUNY Press\, 2014)\, Xenofeminism (Polity\, 2018)\, and After Work: The Politics of Free Time (Verso\, forthcoming\, with Nick Srnicek). \n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to purchase the ticket. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: book plus event entry\, solidarity ticket and free access. Please choose from below: \n\n\n\n\nBook plus entry ticket £16.99\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/the-care-crisis-emma-dowling-in-conversation-with-helen-hester-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/care-crisis.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210219T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210219T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20201225T144655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210219T190228Z UID:27221-1613761200-1613766600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Introduction to Degrowth with Vincent Liegey\, Anitra Nelson and Derek Wall [online event] DESCRIPTION:Vincent Liegey\, Anitra Nelson and Derek Wall join us online at Housmans to provide an accessible introduction to the degrowth movement. \nThis is a free event. To attend simply RSVP below. Alternatively\, if you would like to support Housmans you can buy a solidarity ticket. \nA sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism\, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer\, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about\, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. \nAs politicians and corporations obsess over growth objectives\, the degrowth movement demands that we must slow down the economy by transforming our economies\, our politics and our cultures to live within the Earth’s limits. \nVincent\, Anitra and Derek will cover the practice and strategies of the movement\, its strengths and weaknesses and will also look at horizontal democracy\, local economies and the reduction of work\, arguing that degrowth is a compelling and realistic project. \nTo buy Exploring Degrowth by Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson (published by Pluto Press)\, click here \nSpeakers \nVincent Liegey is an engineer\, interdisciplinary researcher\, spokesperson for the French degrowth movement and co-author of Un Projet de Décroissance\,  Utopia\, 2013). He is also the coordinator of Cargonomia — a centre for research and experimentation on degrowth\, a social cooperative for sustainable logistical solutions and local food distribution using cargo-bikes in Budapest. \nAnitra Nelson is Honorary Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne\, Australia. She is the author of Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (Pluto\, 2018) and is co-editor of Food for Degrowth (Routledge\, 2020) with Ferne Edwards. \nDerek Wall is the author of numerous books including Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals (Pluto\, 2017)\, Economics After Capitalism (Pluto\, 2015)\, The Rise of the Green Left (Pluto\, 2010) and The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom (Routledge\, 2014). He teaches Political Economy at Goldsmiths College\, University of London and was International Co-ordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales. \n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/introduction-to-degrowth-with-anitra-nelson-and-derek-wall-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/degrowth.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210217T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210217T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210121T160549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T185000Z UID:28921-1613588400-1613593800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited\, Exhausted and Alone\, with Sarah Jaffe [online event] DESCRIPTION:When you love your job so much that you’ll work for next to nothing\, then nothing is exactly what you’ll get. \nWe’re very pleased to welcome Sarah Jaffe to Housmans to discuss the ‘labour of love’ myth: the idea that certain work is not really work\, and should be done for the sake of passion rather than pay. Whether it’s working for free in exchange for ‘experience’\, enduring poor treatment in the name of being ‘part of the family’\, or clocking serious overtime for a good cause\, more and more of us are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do work we enjoy. \nWork Won’t Love You Back examines the lives and experiences of various workers—from the unpaid intern and the overworked teacher\, to the nonprofit employee\, the domestic worker and even the professional athlete—this compelling book reveals how we’ve all been tricked into a new tyranny of work and argues that understanding the labour of love trap will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. \nFor this event\, Sarah will be in conversation with Ray Malone and Kate O’Shea\, two of the workers she interviews in Work Won’t Love You Back. \nPlease join us to take part in this essential conversation on a type of labour which is also very prevalent within radical communities: simply register below for free access or\, if you wish to support Housmans\, you can purchase a solidarity ticket. \nSpeakers \nSarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center fellow and an independent journalist covering the politics of power\, from the workplace to the streets. The author of Necessary Trouble\, she has written for The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Nation and many other outlets. She tweets as @sarahljaffe. \nRay Malone is a creative producer\, theatre director and photographer\, working under the banner of her own theatre and arts collective: Heads Bodies Legs. Her previous experience is varied\, alongside her work as a theatre maker\, she has also worked as a chambermaid\, an ice cream seller\, a barmaid in a strip club\, a governess for wealthy Russians\, a terrible singer and badass single mum. As an activist\, she’s made performances with a number of collectives\, including Act Up London\, Beautiful Trouble\, the NHS Anti-Swindle Team\, and the Fallout Club. In theatre\, she has directed and dramaturged a range of new-writing and site-specific performances\, devising shows with professional and non-professional actors. Ray is currently leading the community arts project: the Molly’s Masquerade at St Margaret’s House in Bethnal Green. \nKate O’Shea is an artist with a social practice which includes printmaking\, the production of social spaces\, collective cooking and publishing. From setting up a social space in the south west of Ireland in 2009 to co-producing SPARE ROOM Art Architecture Activism (www.spareroomproject.ie) with Eve Olney in Cork in 2019\, Kate’s collaborative practice is based on building spaces of solidarity and dialogue in order to explore alternatives to the social relations of capitalism. Kate is currently The Just City Counter Narrative Neighbourhood Residency Awardee with Common Ground\, Dublin 8. Kate’s project How Much is Enough? includes collaborators from all around the world exploring ideas and practices around spatial injustices in multiple cities. This includes an upcoming collaborative exhibition entitled ‘Half Way To Falling’. Along with Victoria Brunetta\, Kate is co-founder of Durty Books (2018 – present) which is a publishing house that has produced two books to date\, providing a critical space for voices who challenge and build alternatives to capitalist hegemony. Kate is developing The People’s Kitchen which is being funded by Arts Council Ireland Artist in Community Scheme\, managed by CREATE. She is consulting artist on We Only Want The Earth 2020 working with A4 Sounds\, Create & MASI. Kate is a member of The Living Commons\, Ireland. \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/work-wont-love-you-back-how-devotion-to-our-jobs-keeps-us-exploited-exhausted-and-alone-with-sarah-jaffe-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/sarah-jaffe-book-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210210T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210210T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20201207T162933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210209T133251Z UID:26294-1612983600-1612989000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Protest: Stories of Resistance with Maxine Peake\, Maggie Gee and Sally Alexander [online event] DESCRIPTION:Housmans Bookshop and Comma Press are delighted to host two online events with renowned British actors Christopher Eccleston and Maxine Peake reading from protest-inspired stories published in Comma’s History-into-Fiction series\, Protest and Resist. \nThe two events will take place on two consecutive dates\, with Christopher reading on the 9th of February and Maxine on the 10th. Both readings will be followed by a conversation between authors and historians discussing the events depicted in the stories read by Christopher and Maxine. \nMaxine will be reading the story ‘Night Cleaners’ Strike’ by Maggie Gee from the Protest anthology. \nPlease read: \nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com stating which book you prefer (Protest or Resist) and let us know whether you would like the book posted or if you would like to collect it from the shop. Please supply a UK address if the book is to be posted out.  \nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it.  \nMore info on Comma’s History-into-Fiction series\, Protest and Resist: \nAt a time of great political disarray – government corruption and incompetence\, the COVID pandemic\, Brexit and new austerity measures looming – we look back to the past to remember the times the people have called it out\, stood up\, resisted! \nFor a nation that brought the world Chartism\, the Suffragettes\, the Tolpuddle Martyrs\, and so many other grassroots social movements\, Britain rarely celebrates its long\, great tradition of people power. Both Protest and Resist are collections of fictions and essays that explore and commemorate key moments of British protest and defiance over the last two millenia. \nWritten in close consultation with historians\, sociologists and eyewitnesses – who also contribute afterwords – these stories follow fictional characters caught up in real-life struggles\, offering a street level perspective on the noble art of resistance. Authors re-imagine campaigns to change unjust laws\, protests against unlawful acts\, uprisings successful and unsuccessful – from Boudica to Blair Peach\, from the Battle of Cable Street to the tragedy of Grenfell Tower\, from the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 to the anti-Iraq War demo of 2003. \nSpeakers \nSally Alexander is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Goldsmiths University of London. Her books include Becoming a Woman: and other essays in 19th and 20th century feminist history (1994)\, and most recently History and Psyche: Culture\, Psychoanalysis\, and the Past\, edited with Barbara Taylor (2012). She was an organiser of the first national UK Women’s Liberation Movement conference held at Ruskin College\, Oxford in 1970\, was a member of several groups in the London Women’s Liberation Workshop\, and among other protests participated in the 1970 Miss World Demonstration. \nMaggie Gee has published 15 books\, including The Ice People\, My Cleaner\, The White Family\, shortlisted for the International Impac and Orange (now Women’s) Prize\, The Blue (stories)\, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan and most recently Blood (2019) which was on the Sunday Times’s ‘Best Literary Novels 2019’ list as well as their ‘Best Summer Reading 2019’ list\,  a black comedy-thriller about angry pre-Brexit Britain. Hilary Mantel described Blood as ‘An astonishing book. Funny and fierce\, written with style and dash\, without fear.’ Maggie has been translated into 15 languages. She has been warning against climate change in her fiction since Where Are the Snows (1991). She is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. The Red Children is forthcoming from Saqi in January 2022. \n  \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/protest-and-resist-stories-of-uprising-and-resistance-with-maxine-peake/ CATEGORIES:Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Maxine-Protest.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210209T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210209T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20201207T162837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210209T132233Z UID:26278-1612897200-1612902600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Protest: Stories of Resistance with Christopher Eccleston\, Martyn Bedford and David Waddington DESCRIPTION:Housmans Bookshop and Comma Press are delighted to host two online events with renowned British actors Christopher Eccleston and Maxine Peake reading from protest-inspired stories published in Comma’s History-into-Fiction series\, Protest. \nThe two events will take place on two consecutive dates\, with Christopher reading on the 9th of February and Maxine on the 10th. Both readings will be followed by a conversation between authors and historians discussing the events depicted in the stories read by Christopher and Maxine. \nChristopher will be reading ‘Withen’ by Martyn Bedford\, a story about the Battle of Orgreave\, during the 1984-85 miners’ strike. The reading will be followed by a discussion with author Martyn Bedford and academic David Waddington who has published widely on Britain’s mining communities. \n\nPlease read: \nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com stating which book you prefer (Protest or Resist) and let us know whether you would like the book posted or if you would like to collect it from the shop. Please supply a UK address if the book is to be posted out.  \nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it.  \n\nMore info on Comma’s History-into-Fiction series\, Protest and Resist: \nAt a time of great political disarray – government corruption and incompetence\, the COVID pandemic\, Brexit and new austerity measures looming – we look back to the past to remember the times the people have called it out\, stood up\, resisted! \n\nFor a nation that brought the world Chartism\, the Suffragettes\, the Tolpuddle Martyrs\, and so many other grassroots social movements\, Britain rarely celebrates its long\, great tradition of people power. Both Protest and Resist are collections of fictions and essays that explore and commemorate key moments of British protest and defiance over the last two millenia. \nWritten in close consultation with historians\, sociologists and eyewitnesses – who also contribute afterwords – these stories follow fictional characters caught up in real-life struggles\, offering a street level perspective on the noble art of resistance. Authors re-imagine campaigns to change unjust laws\, protests against unlawful acts\, uprisings successful and unsuccessful – from Boudica to Blair Peach\, from the Battle of Cable Street to the tragedy of Grenfell Tower\, from the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 to the anti-Iraq War demo of 2003. \nIn the age of fake news and post-truth politics this book fights fiction with (well researched\, historically accurate) fiction. Britain might not be famous for its revolutionary spirit\, but its people know when to draw the line\, and say very clearly\, ‘¡No pasarán!’ \nSpeakers \nMartyn Bedford is the author of five novels for adults: Acts of Revision\, which won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award\, Exit\, Orange & Red\, The Houdini Girl\, Black Cat\, and The Island of Lost Souls. He is also the author of two novels for young adults: Flip (shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award\, and winner of the Sheffield Children’s Book Award\, the Calderdale Book of the Year Award\, the Bay Book Award and the Immanuel College Book Award) and Never Ending (2014). His first collection of short stories\, Letters Home\, is published by Comma Press. \nDavid Waddington is Professor of Communications and Co-Director of the Cultural\, Communication and Computing Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University\, where he started out as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in March 1983. Since being appointed\, he has continued to publish widely on the policing of public order\, industrial relations in the coalfields\, and the sociology of Britain’s mining communities. His latest book\, Pit-folk and Peers: The Remarkable History of the People of Fryston\, Volume 1 – Echoes of Fryston Hall (1809-1908)\, has just been published by Route (Pontefract). \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/protest-and-resist-stories-of-resistance-and-uprising-with-christopher-eccleston/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Chris-Protest-FB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210204T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210204T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20210201T144504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210201T144504Z UID:25965-1612465200-1612468800@housmans.com SUMMARY:We Played With Fire Book Launch with Catherine Barter and Fen Coles DESCRIPTION:Thursday 4th February 2021\, 7pm-8pm\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nJoin us for the launch of We Played With Fire by Housmans co-manager Catherine Barter. Catherine will be in conversation with Fen Coles\, co-director of radical children’s bookseller Letterbox Library. The event will take place over Zoom.\n\n \n\nWe Played With Fire (Andersen Press) is a YA novel inspired by the true story of the Fox sisters\, who rattled the bones of nineteenth century America and kick-started the Spiritualist movement with their apparent ability to communicate with the dead. Fen and Catherine will be discussing the radical history of Spiritualism and the rise of political fiction for young adults.\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister + Order Signed Copy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration OnlySubmitting form\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nCatherine Barter grew up in Warwickshire\, and then lived in Norwich for ten years. After gaining a PhD in American literature\, she ditched academia for the lucrative world of independent bookselling. She now lives in London and is one of the co-managers at Housmans Bookshop. With Letterbox Library\, she also helps to co-ordinate the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award for radical children’s fiction. We Played With Fire is her second novel.\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nFen Coles is co-director of Letterbox Library\, a 32-year-old children’s booksellers and workers’ cooperative\, specialising in inclusive children’s books. Fen has worked at Letterbox Library since 2005. Prior to this she worked in the LGBT and women’s charitable sector\, and taught Lesbian Cultural Studies to adult returners (while completing her PhD in lesbian horror films.) Fen is also co-founder and coordinator of the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award.\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/we-played-with-fire-book-launch-with-catherine-barter-and-fen-coles/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210129T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210129T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20201210T171259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210323T114118Z UID:26658-1611946800-1611952200@housmans.com SUMMARY:**RESCHEDULED** In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life with Jamie Windust in conversation with Gina Martin [online event] DESCRIPTION:‘There is no one way to be non-binary\, and that’s truthfully one of the best things about it. It’s an identity that is yours to shape.’\n\n**Please note the new date of this event is Friday 29th of January at 7pm**\n\nHousmans and JKP are delighted to present Jamie Windust\, award-winning non-binary writer\, public speaker and model\, an author of In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life. Jamie will be in conversation with activist Gina Martin. \n\n\nCombining light-hearted anecdotes with their own hard-won wisdom\, Jamie explores everything from fashion\, dating\, relationships and family\, through to mental health\, work and future key debates. From trying on clothes in secret to iconic looks\, first dates to polyamorous liaisons\, passports to pronouns\, Jamie shows you how to navigate the world and your evolving identity in every type of situation. In Their Shoes is a call to arms for non-binary self-acceptance\, self-appreciation and self-celebration.\n\n‘Beautiful\, heart-breaking and hilarious.’ – Scarlett Curtis\n\n‘A love-letter to our non-binary siblings.’ – Paula Akpan\n\nPlease read:\n\nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com to let us know whether you would like Jamie’s book posted or if you would like to collect it from the shop. Please supply a UK address if the book is to be posted out. \n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it.\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/in-their-shoes-navigating-non-binary-life-with-jamie-windust-plus-special-guest-to-be-announced-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/jamie-windust.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210127T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210127T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20201222T173257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210122T115731Z UID:27217-1611774000-1611779400@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Truth About Modern Slavery with Emily Kenway in conversation with Dawn Foster [online event] DESCRIPTION:Emily Kenway and Dawn Foster join us online to discuss the issue of modern slavery in the UK. This event is free\, simply register below to attend. \nIn 2019\, over 10\,000 possible victims of slavery were found in the UK. From men working in Sports Direct warehouses for no pay\, to teenaged Vietnamese girls trafficked into small town nail bars\, we’re told that modern slavery is all around us\, operating in plain sight. \nBut is this really slavery\, and is it even a new phenomenon? Why has the British Conservative Party called it ‘one of the great human rights issues of our time’\, when they usually ignore the exploitation of those at the bottom of the economic pile? The Truth About Modern Slavery reveals how modern slavery has been created as a political tool by those in power. It shows how anti-slavery action acts as a moral cloak\, hiding the harms of the ‘hostile environment’ towards migrants\, legitimising big brands’ exploitation of the poorest workers and oppressing sex workers. \nBlaming the media’s complicity\, rich philanthropists’ opportunism and our collective failure to realise the lies we’re being told\, The Truth About Modern Slavery provides a vital challenge to conventional narratives on modern slavery. \nTo buy a copy of Emily’s book\, click here. \nSpeakers \nEmily Kenway is a writer and activist. As a former advisor to the UK’s first Anti-Slavery Commissioner she was at the heart of modern slavery action. She has written for a variety of publications including the Guardian and TLS. \nDawn Foster is a British journalist\, broadcaster and author. She is a staff writer for Jacobin magazine. She also contributes to the London Review of Books\, Times Literary Supplement\, The Independent\, The Nation\, Tribune\, and Dissent in the United States. \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-truth-about-modern-slavery-with-emily-kenway-in-conversation-with-dawn-foster-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Modern-slavery.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210120T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210120T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20201222T172109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T153757Z UID:27209-1611169200-1611174600@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes\, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution with Dan Hicks [online event] DESCRIPTION:Housmans welcomes Dan Hicks to discuss his book The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes\, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution at this free online event. Simply register below to attend. Alternatively\, if you wish to support Housmans\, please choose the solidarity ticket option.\n\nBrutish Museums is a call for western museums to wash their hands of colonial blood.\n\nWalk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified\, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name\, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen.\n\nFew artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes – a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City\, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897\, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria\, the British Museum and countless private collections.\n\nThe story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution\, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums\, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects\, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.\n\nTo buy a copy of Dan’s book\, click here\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nDan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum. His award-winning research focuses on the restitution of African cultural heritage from Euro-American collections\, focusing on the place of ideas of cultural whiteness in ongoing histories of colonial violence.\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-brutish-museums-the-benin-bronzes-colonial-violence-and-cultural-restitution-with-dan-hicks-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Brutish-Museums.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210114T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210114T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20201219T151141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210323T115932Z UID:27094-1610650800-1610656200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch - Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher with Matt Colquhoun and James Butler [online event] DESCRIPTION:Join Matt Colquhoun and James Butler as they examine the crucial legacy of Mark Fisher\, to celebrate the publication of Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher\, edited by Colquhoun.\n\nWhen we lost Mark Fisher in 2017\, we lost one of our most exciting and vital critics of contemporary politics and culture. Providing lucid and excoriating critiques on subjects ranging from Dido to Drake; The Fall to James Blake; Breaking Bad to Benefits Street\, he was moved by the emancipatory possibilities of popular culture. In publishing\, he worked to spread radical ideas and provide a generation of new writers with a platform. Blogging as ‘k-punk’\, he analysed everyday experiences of precarity\, depression\, and cultural malaise as profoundly political — and therefore changeable. Mark tirelessly sought alternatives to the world that we’ve been given\, away from the destructive individualism of the present and towards a practical communitarian future.\n\nFor the first time\, Postcapitalist Desire reveals Mark Fisher in his element — the classroom — outlining a project that Fisher’s death left so bittersweetly unfinished.\n\nBeginning with that most fundamental of questions — “Do we really want what we say we want?” — Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism\, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past\, present\, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking\, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness\, and the cultural and political implications of doing so.\n\nFor Fisher\, this process of consciousness raising was always\, fundamentally\, psychedelic — just not in the way that we might think…\n\nSpeakers\n\nMatt Colquhoun is a writer and photographer from Hull\, East Yorkshire. He is the author of Egress: On Mourning\, Melancholy and Mark Fisher and blogs at xenogothic.com.\n\nJames Butler is the co-founded Novara Media and presents Novara FM on Resonance 104.4\, as well as being a contributor to the LRB and others.\n\nPlease read:\n\nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com with a UK address. Postcapitalist Desire is published on 12 Jan 2021.\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it. \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/postcapitalist-desire-the-final-lectures-of-mark-fisher-with-matt-colquhoun-and-james-butler/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/post-cap.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201210T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201210T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20201202T151531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201202T162232Z UID:26255-1607626800-1607632200@housmans.com SUMMARY:After the Fact?: The Truth About Fake News with Marcus Gilroy-Ware in conversation with Aurelien Mondon [online event] DESCRIPTION:Join Marcus Gilroy-Ware and Aurelien Mondon to explore the causes of our current political malaise\, and whether the era of “Fake News” and the populist far-right is over. \nMany rightfully breathed a sigh of relief with the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in November\, as it signalled the end of the racist and misogynist Donald Trump’s term as US president. But does the end of Trump mean the end of “Trumpism” in its essence — the proliferation of lies\, mis- and disinformation\, and an insurgent populist far-right on the march? \nMarcus Gilroy-Ware\, author of the recently published After the Fact: The Truth about Fake News and Aurelien Mondon\, co-author of Reactionary Democracy: populism\, liberal and illiberal racisms\, the far right and the lack of political imagination explore this question\, tackling the deeper causes of “Fake News” and the rising tide of far-right nationalism\, in the hope that we’re able to combat it more effectively. \n**This is an online event. You will be emailed an invitation on the day of the event. If you haven’t received your invitation by 5pm\, check your spam folder or email the shop and we will resend it to you** \nAbout the speakers \nMarcus Gilroy-Ware is a writer\, researcher and teacher who works at the intersection of politics\, culture and communication. He is the author of Filling the Void: Emotion\, Capitalism and Social Media and After the Fact?: The Truth About Fake News. \nAurelien Mondon researches and teaches at the University of Bath. He is the author of The Mainstreaming of the Extreme Right in France and Australia: A Populist Hegemony?\, the co-editor of After Charlie Hebdo: Terror\, Racism and Free Speech and the co-author of the recently published Reactionary Democracy:  populism\, liberal and illiberal racisms\, the far right and the lack of political imagination with Aaron Winter. \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/after-the-fact-the-truth-about-fake-news-with-marcus-gilroy-ware-in-conversation-with-aurelien-mondon-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CoverFinal2020-2-640x1010-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201203T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201203T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20201110T113649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201125T131720Z UID:15019-1607022000-1607027400@housmans.com SUMMARY:"Red Metropolis: Socialism and The Government of London" with Owen Hatherley and Hilary Wainwright [online event] DESCRIPTION:ONLINE EVENT \nA polemical history of municipal socialism in London and an argument for turning this capitalist capital red again. \nLondon is conventionally seen as merely a combination of the financial centre in the City and the centre of governmental power in Westminster\, a uniquely capitalist capital city. This book is about the third London a – social democratic twentieth-century metropolis\, a pioneer in council housing\, public enterprise\, socialist design\, radical local democracy and multiculturalism. \nThis book charts the development of this municipal power base under leaders from Herbert Morrison to Ken Livingstone\, and its destruction in 1986\, leaving a gap which has been only very inadequately filled by the Greater London Authority under Livingstone\, Boris Johnson and Sadiq Khan. \nOpposing currently fashionable drivel about an imaginary ”metropolitan elite”\, this book makes a case for London pride on the left\, and makes an argument for using that pride as a weapon against a government of suburban landlords that ruthlessly exploits Londoners. \n**Please note this is an online event. You will be emailed an invitation link on the morning of the event. Please check your spam folder and email us if you have not received the invitation link by the afternoon**  \n\n\n\nPRAISE \n“No one else writes so clearly yet with such elegiac intensity about the symbiosis that exists between history and the built environment\, or the lives that are caught\, mangled and realised in its midst.” – Lynsey Hanley\, author of Estates: An Intimate History \n“Hatherley is a hugely knowledgeable and passionate advocate for architecture and planning\, a cracking writer\, and an undervalued figure of the left. For anyone daring to tackle social issues\, Red Metropolis should be compulsory reading.” — Emma Dent Coad\, Labour councillor for Golborne Ward and MP for Kensington\, 2017-2019 \n“This book captures\, like no other\, the way London local government has been a tumultuous political battle ground and the breeding ground of radical political ideas and social movements. It stands as an excellent basis from which to launch the next wave of radical thinking about the future of the capital.” — John McDonnell\, Deputy Leader and Chair of Finance of the Greater London Council\, 1981-85\, and Shadow Chancellor\, 2015-2020 \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS \n\nOwen Hatherley writes regularly on aesthetics and politics for the Architectural Review\, The Calvert Journal\, Dezeen\, the Guardian\, Jacobin and the London Review of Books. He is the author of several books\, most recently Landscapes of Communism\, The Ministry of Nostalgia and The Chaplin Machine. \nHilary Wainwright is editor of Red Pepper and Fellow of the Transnational Institute. Her most recent book is A New Politics From the Left (Polity 2018. Hilary was Coordinator of the GLC’s Popular Planning unit from 1982 until its abolition in 1986. \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/red-metropolis-socialism-and-the-government-of-london-with-owen-hatherley-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Owen-Red-moetropolis.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201125T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201125T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185524 CREATED:20201110T105926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201116T164908Z UID:15118-1606330800-1606336200@housmans.com SUMMARY:"Travelling While Black" with Nanjala Nyabola in conversation with Dickens Olewe [online event] DESCRIPTION:ONLINE EVENT 7pm UTC \nHousmans are pleased to welcome writer and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola to discuss her latest book Travelling While Black. What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour\, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self\, of home\, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility\, as old as humanity itself\, when more people are on the move than ever? \nNanjala Nyabola is constantly exploring the world\, working with migrants and confronting complex realities challenging common assumptions – both hers and others’. From Nepal to Botswana\, Sicily to Haiti\, New York to Nairobi\, her sharp\, humane essays ask tough questions and offer surprising\, deeply shocking and sometimes funny answers. It is time we saw the world through her eyes. \n**Please note this is an online event. You will be emailed an invitation link on the morning of the event. Please check your spam folder and email us if you have not received the invitation link by the afternoon** \nAbout the speakers \n \nNanjala Nyabola is a writer and political analyst based in Nairobi\, Kenya. Her work focuses on the intersection between technology and politics\, as well as migration and human mobility. A constant traveller\, at the time of writing she has visited over seventy countries across four continents. \nDickens Olewe is a Kenyan journalist working for the BBC\, and a 2015 John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University. His interest is in using new technology for storytelling and integrating the public in the news reporting process. \nHe was part of the team of journalists chosen by Deutsche Welle Academy to develop a manifesto on how to use digital technology to promote freedom of expression in the global south. \nHe’s been a speaker on several media subjects including: drone journalism\, digital publishing platforms\, media trends\, mobile journalism\, social media for news\, user engagement and crowdsourcing news\, at several journalism conferences around the world including: SxSw\, re:publica\, ONA and the World News Media Congress. He also runs The Dickens Olewe podcast where he interviews guests on media\, politics and technology in Africa. \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/travelling-while-black-with-nanjala-nyabola/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/travel.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR