BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Housmans Bookshop X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210309T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210309T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T211703 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:20210317T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210317T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T211703 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:20210324T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210324T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T211703 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:20210325T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T211703 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:20210331T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210331T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T211703 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 END:VCALENDAR