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Black feminist reading group

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-feminist-reading-group-tickets-1987… Join us to reflect and imagine together. There’s no set text, instead we’ll be led by what we bring to this space together. The Black Feminist Reading Group is back next week! Join us on Tuesday 21 April, 6:30–8:30pm at the Feminist Library (please note the change to our end time). This month, we’ll be taking time […]

NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES: CHRISTINE DONOVAN & TOM VAGUE IN CONVERSATION Join us for a conversation between two of the most brilliant writers of psychogeography working the country at the moment as they talk about their recent published works. Christine Donovan’s novel Dériveville explores the long term influence of the Situationist International. Setin 1981 in Paris it […]

DOG SECTION PRESS PRESENTS: FEMINISMS

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Dog Section Press presents an evening of poetry, words and music in celebration of their recent publication: Feminisms. Curated and hosted by Antonia May Cross, featuring book contributors Janey Starling (Yakkie band) & Abu Leila (London Renters Union) and music and poetry from Dream Date and Alice Brady. Feminisms is a collection of ten essays from a diverse milieu of writers […]

PUBLIC LECTURE: Laurence Housman and the Women’s Suffrage Movement

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Learn about Housmans’ namesake and his efforts to fight for women’s suffrage. This free talk is in collaboration UCL, who hold the Laurence Housman archive. Personal items of Housman’s taken from the archive will be on display. This public lecture will explore Housmans Bookshop namesake Laurence Housman (1865-1958) and his active role in the women’s […]

Old Bomb Theatre Company presents “Craggy Hole Caves”

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
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Nele Poolerton is the local guide at Craggy Hole Caves in Yorkshire giving tours on prehistoric finds. However lately she’s had to live at work and she’s struggling to understand the intentions of her limited boss, Stanley. Why is there a pillar in the cave called a witch? Where do the other caves lead? When […]

Herstories Book Club: the volcano lover

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
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☕ Next Herstories Book Club: Sat 25 April, 2.00-3.30pm 📍Location: Feminist Library 📖 Book: The Volcano Lover, by Susan Sontag (1992) 📚 Previous books we’ve read: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/herstories-book-club A historical romance, Sontag’s book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. […]

Reading Group 20 – How Nonviolence Protects The State

Freedom Bookshop, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
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nce Protects The State For our twentieth reading group we will be reading How Nonviolence Protects The State by Peter Gelderloos. From the blurb: “Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities–even organizers of rallies against […]

BOOK TALK: The Journal of a Kurdish Political Prisoner

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Join for a discussion of the journal of Kurdish revolutionary, Ali Poyraz. He spent twenty-one years and four months in Turkish prisons. He was born in 1962 in Bozüyük, an Alevi village in the Gürün district of Sivas. According to Yeni Özgür Politika, his political consciousness was shaped by his older brother, Hüseyin Poyraz (also […]

BOOK LAUNCH: LIQUID REFLECTIONS WITH LILIANE LIJN

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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We are profoundly honored to be hosting the paperback launch for a memoir by one the world’s greatest living artists, the sculptor Liliane Lijn, who will be joined in conversation by leading art writer Jennifer Higgie. Liliane Lijn is an artist who needs little introduction. Her stirring, often ostentatious and always poetic works are dotted […]

[POSTPONED] Book Launch: Liquid Reflections with Liliane Lijn

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES – PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON FOR A RESCHEDULED DATE. We are profoundly honored to be hosting the paperback launch for a memoir by one the world’s greatest living artists, the sculptor Liliane Lijn, who will be joined in conversation by leading art writer […]

BOOK TALK: PUNK SPIRIT!

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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AN ORAL HISTORY OF PUNK ROCK, SPIRITUALITY AND LIBERATION We are super excited to welcome John Malkin over from California to talk about his incredible, and as far as we can tell, unique, book: Punk Spirit! We’ve had countless books about punk (not to mention zines) pass through Housmans over the year but none that […]

First Thursday Freedom board game night!

Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
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Come and join us for a night of frivolity, fun and friendly competition. Every 1st Friday of the month. Next one is the 5th February, 7pm Decentre.

Book Talk: Fascist Yoga with with Stewart Home

Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
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Join us to welcome author Stewart Home to talk about his book ‘Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness’ The practice of yoga promises peace, self-realisation and release, thanks to the power of its ‘mystic’ Indian origins. But what if this is just hype? In Fascist Yoga, Stewart Home sweeps […]