☕ 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. […]
Housmans welcome Roger Hallam to discuss his essential new book: Suicide: The Political and Legal Implications of Creating Endless Mass Death. In the age of climate collapse, telling the truth has become a criminal act. From a cell in Wayland Prison, Roger Hallam—farmer, researcher, and co-founder of Just Stop Oil—delivers a searing indictment of a […]
To mark the Global Day to Destigmatise Abortions on 28 March, Supporting Abortions for Everyone (S.A.F.E.) is partnering with the iconic Feminist Library for a special one-off book club fundraiser! https://www.outsavvy.com/event/33372/safe-fundraiser-the-feminist-library We’ll be reading My Notorious Life by Kate Manning. The book is inspired by the true history of an infamous female physician and […]
Please join us for our second poetry night of the year. This time we celebrate Jazmine Linklater’s immense and devastating new long poem ‘Snagged on red thread’ (published by Monitor). Reading alongside Jazmine we have Fran Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Al Anderson, Harriet Rose and JD Howse. This is a free event, but please RSBP […]
Please join us for our second poetry night of the year. This time we celebrate Jazmine Linklater’s immense and devastating new long poem ‘Snagged on red thread’ (published by Monitor). Reading alongside Jazmine we have Fran Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Al Anderson, Harriet Rose and JD Howse.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unfurling-maori-pasifika-print-publishing… Join publisher Kaiya Waerea in a group study session exploring the Feminist Library’s collections relating to Māori & Pasifika feminist organising in the late 20th century. Together we will look at key periodicals including Bitches, witches & dykes (1980-82) and Broadsheet (1972-1997) and reflect on questions including: How have indigenous practises of knowledge sharing […]
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.
Come and join us for a night of frivolity, fun and friendly competition. Every 1st Friday of the month. Next one is the 1st November, 7pm Decentre.
A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons. Join us for some radical thinking, some real radical autonomist thinking, with one of our favourite vanguardist publishers, Minor Compositions. Come and celebrate the publication of another vital, alert and mind bending work of theory. A Studious Use invites readers to reconsider the habitual logics and material priorities […]
Policing the beats: Black music, racism and criminal injustice We are absolutely delighted to welcome Lambros Fatsis to Housmans to discuss the criminalizing of black culture, music and youth. We are thrilled also to welcome back the brilliant Adèle Oliver, author of ‘Deeping it: Colonialism, Culture and Criminalisation of UK Drill’, to interview Lambros about […]
We welcome Ida Susser to celebrate the publication of The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy Taking to the Streets of Paris in the 21st Century. Written under the shadow of growing authoritarianism in the United States and Europe, this book is an effort to understand resistance movements of the twenty-first century. It foregrounds […]
Mohammad Rasoulof is an Iranian writer and director, with other notable films including “The Twilight,” “Iron Island,” and “Lerd”. He was arrested in Iran and was sentenced to a year in prison in 2010. Rasoulof continues to be banned from making films in his home country as his work was labelled “propaganda against the regime” […]
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986345886016/preview?_gl=1*tmq8*_up*MQ..*_ga*ODk3ODk2MTE3LjE3NzUwNjY4ODI.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3NzUwNjY4ODIkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzUwNjY4ODIkajYwJGwwJGgw This April, we at the Feminist Library are delighted to host the opening session of “The Poethics of Infrastructure.” With @threadbarecollective. Threadbare Collective is an art-curatorial collective based in SE London, focusing on architecture, rest and the body. They were recently in residence at Goldsmiths CCA 24/25 where they ran a monthly programme of […]
On the 19th of April, we will be meeting again to swap books. Bring your favourite books or those that you cannot stand to look at one second more! It could be fiction or non fiction. Alternatively, just bring yourself and drinks and snacks! As part of the event, we will discuss our next zine, […]
