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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: REVOLUTIONARY FORGIVENESS: D. K. RENTON in conversation with Barnaby Raine
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IT NOW SOLD OUT. TO BE ADDED TO A WAITING LIST PLEASE EMAIL SHOP@HOUSMANS.COM Housmans are delighted to welcome the legendary theorist\, thinker and lawyer D.K. Renton to launch what we believe may be one of the most original\, and vital\, works of left wing thought to appear in recent years. He will be joined in conversation by the scholar and journalist Barnaby Raine. \nForgiveness is necessary in the long fight for a just world—but it is only possible after the oppressed are victorious \nFor too long\, revolutionary social movements have reconciled to defeat. We must start winning again. Forgiveness is a crucial strategy for remaking the world\, to secure and sustain victories\, to transform one-time enemies into friends. With deep political commitment\, D. K. Renton makes the case for forgiveness—but of a particularly unruly sort. Tracing the tragic abuse of Eleanor Marx and Jane Wells\, the mistakes of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission\, and the redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye\, Renton urges us to forgive\, but only after tearing down the citadels of the rich. \nRevolutionary Forgiveness connects collective struggle with the individual’s search for justice to demand a better future for all—when the oppressed will be magnanimous in power\, and even former oppressors will be free. \n“Renton rescues ‘forgiveness’ from the pulpit and returns it\, bloodied but lucid\, to history.” \n— Richard Seymour\, author of Disaster Nationalism \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nTHIS EVENT IT NOW SOLD OUT. TO BE ADDED TO A WAITING LIST PLEASE EMAIL SHOP@HOUSMANS.COM \nShare this:  \n				Share on X (Opens in new window)  \n				X 				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)  \n				Facebook 				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)  \n				Insta  \n			Like this:Like Loading…
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/sold-out-revolutionary-forgiveness-d-k-renton-in-conversation-with-barnaby-raine/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260508T190000
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: REVOLUTIONARY FORGIVENESS: D. K. RENTON in conversation with Barnaby Raine
DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to welcome the legendary theorist\, thinker and lawyer D.K. Renton to launch what we believe may be one of the most original\, and vital\, works of left wing thought to appear in recent years. He will be joined in conversation by the scholar and journalist Barnaby Raine. \nForgiveness is necessary in the long fight for a just world—but it is only possible after the oppressed are victorious \nFor too long\, revolutionary social movements have reconciled to defeat. We must start winning again. Forgiveness is a crucial strategy for remaking the world\, to secure and sustain victories\, to transform one-time enemies into friends. With deep political commitment\, D. K. Renton makes the case for forgiveness—but of a particularly unruly sort. Tracing the tragic abuse of Eleanor Marx and Jane Wells\, the mistakes of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission\, and the redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye\, Renton urges us to forgive\, but only after tearing down the citadels of the rich. \nRevolutionary Forgiveness connects collective struggle with the individual’s search for justice to demand a better future for all—when the oppressed will be magnanimous in power\, and even former oppressors will be free. \n“Renton rescues ‘forgiveness’ from the pulpit and returns it\, bloodied but lucid\, to history.” \n— Richard Seymour\, author of Disaster Nationalism \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-launch-revolutionary-forgiveness-d-k-renton-in-conversation-with-barnaby-raine/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260508T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260508T190000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260501T204121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260501T204619Z
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SUMMARY:Punk Spirit! book talk with author John Malkin
DESCRIPTION:‘Punk Spirit! An Oral History of Punk Rock\, Solidarity and Liberation’ is an oral history that brings together well-known and cutting-edge bands including Sex Pistols\, Minor Threat\, Dead Kennedys\, The Ramones\, Gang of Four\, Crass\, Propagandhi\, The Slits\, Bad Religion\, Shelter\, Rebel Riot\, Blackfire\, and many others. John Malkin ventures into the emotional and personal experiences of punk artists and spiritual teachers from around the world and highlights intelligent\, thoughtful\, and humorous discussions on liberation\, spirituality\, and living freely. Chapters dive deeply into many interconnected realms of punk such as the subgenres of straight edge\, Krishnacore and Taqwacore; evangelical punk concerts in southern California churches and illegal punk concerts in East German churches; anti-religious sentiment within punk; and the myriad ways punk has been combined with a variety of traditions to illuminate ideas from atheism\, anarchism\, science\, Buddhism\, Christianity\, Judaism\, Islam\, and other ways of being in the world.  \nJohn Malkin is a journalist\, musician\, activist\, photographer and filmmaker. He is the author ofPunk Revolution!: An Oral History of Punk Rock Politics and Activism (Rowman & Littlefield 2023).  \n“Punk Spirit!\, with its unique blend of anarchic counterculture and classic psychoanalytical theory\, makes for a most compelling read. From incarnation to oral history\, the power of punk compels you!” —Steven Blush\, Author and Filmmaker\, American Hardcore  \n“I devoured Punk Spirit! in two sittings. It was pure enjoyment to read – pure exhilaration! Crack openPunk Spirit! and behold a ‘volatile church’ where the lifeblood of a rich\, complex\, and passionately punk spirituality surges through every page. Incited by John Malkin’s galvanizing questions\, the collective voices of his interlocutors raise up a kaleidoscopic vision of punk spirit that is as vibrantly alive as it is full of surprises.” —Glenn Wallis\, Guitarist for Ruin\, Author of An Anarchist’s Manifesto  \n“Punk Spirit! is an affirming and varied testimony to the significance of punk music and spirit in the library of humanity and existence. Explore! The Spirit of Punk reflects how in our extreme punk expression of letting go of societal norms and indoctrination\, we find liberation and peace in reaching for and manifesting another state of being and its possibilities.” —Yaotl Mazahua\, Iconoclast\, Aztlan Underground (aka Anahuak Underground)  \n“A skilled interviewer\, John Malkin is one of a handful of punk mavens willing to explore its deep\, spiritual intimations. This is a monumental collection of conversations\, offering anyone with a reasonable curiosity about punk rock and spirituality the opportunity to understand their amorphous\, vibrant\, and sometimes revolutionary entanglements. If God is dead\, punk is not dead\, and the anti-establishment postures and rebellious spirit captured in Malkin’s book lives on!”  \n—Ken Chitwood\, Religion Scholar\, Journalist\, Theologian “Punk is far from dead; it is getting richer and richer. We are lucky to have John Malkin look at a very specific aspect of that world. With gems from more than 150 interviews conducted over the course of a quarter century\,Punk Spirit! is an important contribution to the ever-growing oral history of one of the world’s most compelling subcultures.”  \n—Gabriel Kuhn\, Author of Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk\, Straight Edge\, and Radical Politics “You need this book if you ever screamed at the sky and wanted it to scream back. Lively and vivid\,Punk Spirit! dares you to ask: What does it mean to be free?”  \n—Antonino D’Ambrosio\, Filmmaker\, Author\, and Visual Artist\, Let Fury Have the Hour “This book tries to make sense of the madness that is punk and to find the meaning in the noise\, the spirituality in the energy\, and the idealism in the anger.” —John Robb\, Bassist and Singer for The Membranes\, Author ofPunk Rock: An Oral History and The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth  \n“For those of us who came up in punk clubs and later found a home in spiritual practice\, this book isn’t just interesting—it’s personal.”—Miguel Chen\, Bassist for Teenage Bottlerocket; author of I Wanna Be Well and The Death of You  \n“Captivating. Malkin connects with an amazing array of artists and enlarges the vision of the spirit of punk.” —Eddie Stern\, Bassist for Chop Shop; Yoga and Meditation Teacher for Lou Reed  \n“Malkin’s decades-long trek takes us dead center into the interior. No bullshit.” —Gary Gach\, Author of The Complete Idiots Guide to Understanding Buddhism John Malkin is a journalist\, musician\, activist\, photographer and filmmaker. He is the author ofPunk Revolution!: An Oral History of Punk Rock Politics and Activism (Rowman & Littlefield 2023).
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/punk-spirit-book-talk-with-author-john-malkin/
LOCATION:Freedom Bookshop\, Angel Alley\, 84b Whitechapel High Street\, E1 7QX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260507T190000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Fascist Yoga with with Stewart Home
DESCRIPTION:Join us to welcome author Stewart Home to talk about his book ‘Fascist Yoga: Grifters\, Occultists\, White Supremacists\, and the New Order In Wellness’ \nThe 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 away the half-truths to tell a new origin story of the world’s first modern yogi – a Californian escapologist who added some Hindu fairy dust to gym and circus exercises. \nEver since\, the world of yoga has been full of grifters\, occultists and white supremacists\, all out to exploit and recruit via the medium of exercise. From cult leaders to brainwashed followers\, TV celebrities and fake gurus\, the story of yoga has involved some of the strangest currents of humanity. \nToday\, the COVID pandemic has activated elements within the modern yoga movement to espouse far-right conspiracies\, and QAnon’s fascist political programmes mirror some of yoga’s key early proponents.\nIn this new exposé\, Stewart Home shows that nothing is sacred. \nAbout the author:\nStewart Home is a legend of counterculture. He is an artist\, filmmaker\, pamphleteer\, art historian and activist\, and the author of countless pulp fictions\, including most recently Art School Orgy and She’s My Witch. He regularly performs to audiences across the world and recently started making headstand paintings with the canvas placed above him and brushes held in his toes. He was born and lives in London.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-talk-fascist-yoga-with-with-stewart-home/
LOCATION:Freedom Bookshop\, Angel Alley\, 84b Whitechapel High Street\, E1 7QX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260507T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260507T190000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260116T142722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T143640Z
UID:4562-1778180400-1778180400@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:First Thursday Freedom board game night!
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/first-thursday-freedom-board-game-night-4/
LOCATION:Freedom Bookshop\, Angel Alley\, 84b Whitechapel High Street\, E1 7QX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260505T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260505T203000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260330T142921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T144125Z
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: PUNK SPIRIT!
DESCRIPTION:AN ORAL HISTORY OF PUNK ROCK\, SPIRITUALITY AND LIBERATION\nWe 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 quite approach the topic from this angle. \nPunk Spirit! is an oral history that examines this movement from many unique perspectives\, bringing together well-known and cutting-edge bands including Sex Pistols\, Minor Threat\, Dead Kennedys\, The Ramones\, Gang of Four\, Pussy Riot\, Crass\, Talking Heads\, Propagandhi\, The Slits\, Bad Religion\, Shelter\, Rebel Riot\, Blackfire\, and many others. \nPunk Spirit! ventures into the emotional and personal experiences of punk artists and activists from around the world and highlights intelligent\, thoughtful\, and humorous discussions on liberation\, spirituality\, and living freely. They discuss a myriad of topics from creativity and anger to freedom from suffering and the ways that punk rock has opposed or embodied religious and moral tenets. Chapters dive deeply into a variety of interconnected realms of punk rock such as the subgenre of straight edge\, Krishnacore and Taqwacore\, evangelical punk concerts in southern California churches\, illegal punk concerts in East German churches\, anti-religious sentiment within punk rock\, the vital connections between punk and self-expression\, and the myriad ways punk rock has been combined with spiritual and religious traditions to illuminate ideas from science\, atheism\, Buddhism\, Christianity\, Judaism\, Islam\, and other ways of being in the world. \nAnd complete with a forward by one of our favorite writers\, Penny Rimbaud! How could we have said no?! \nJohn Malkin is a journalist\, musician\, activist\, photographer and filmmaker. He is the author of Punk Revolution!: An Oral History of Punk Rock Politics and Activism \, and his interviews and writings have been published in internationally including Adbusters\, Punk Planet\, Razorcake\, Spirituality & Health\, Z Magazine\, Ode\, In These Times\, Sojourners\, The Sun\, Film International\, Shambhala Sun\, Tricycle\, Friends Journal\, The Santa Cruz Sentinel\, The Monterey Herald\, and others. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California with his wife and son. \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-talk-punk-spirit/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260502T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260502T203000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260501T022950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260506T102306Z
UID:6202-1777748400-1777753800@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:[POSTPONED] Book Launch: Liquid Reflections with Liliane Lijn
DESCRIPTION: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 Jennifer Higgie. Liliane Lijn is an artist who needs little introduction. Her stirring\, often ostentatious and always poetic works are dotted throughout the British urban landscape\, and overseas. Regular visitors to Housmans will have no doubt seen her recent piece Temenos just up the road from us\, near Granary Square. \nWe will host Liliane May 2nd to launch the paperback edition of her brilliant bildungsroman Liquid Reflections. The book begins in 1958 with the talented and fearless Liliane Lijn leaving her family home and moving to Paris alone to become an artist. Once there\, she found an art world filled with the wild energy of creative revolution – peopled and controlled almost entirely by men. In the years that followed\, Lijn built a life for herself in the city. She embraced the hectic bohemian spirit of the Left Bank. She befriended artists\, painters\, poets\, gallerists and revolutionaries\, as the late Surrealists gave way to a burgeoning Pop Art movement. She had disastrous love affairs with difficult men. She experimented boldly\, creating ground-breaking sculptures with light\, text and movement. And as her profile steadily grew\, she was told again and again that there are no great women artists: ‘There never have been.’ \nLiquid Reflections is her memoir of these years of experiment and adventure – years when Lijn was constantly in motion\, from Paris to New York to Venice to Athens\, from paper and canvas to wax and Perspex to oil and water. In love\, she became pregnant but rebelled against the idea that a woman could not be both a great artist and a mother. And she sought – and found – radical pleasure in the act of creative expression and in the living\, sensuous world around her. \nBased on personal diaries from the time\, this is a riveting and revelatory account of a singular coming of age: a glittering portrait of the artist as a young woman. \n‘I wrote LIQUID REFLECTIONS because I wanted to take my readers on the journey I made to become an artist. It’s the story of an idealistic\, inspired young woman who refuses to accept the prejudices of her time. Becoming an artist was also a search for my own identity…’— Liliane Lijn \nLiliane will be conversation with the art writer Jennifer Higgie\, author of numerous books\, her most recent being The Other Side: A Journey into Women\, Art and the Spirit World\, the first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world. \nThis is going to be an extremely special event and we are delighted to be hosting it. Please do book a ticket in advance to avoid disappointment on the night. \nLiliane and Jennifer will talk for around 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by an open discussion with the audience. Doors will open at 6:45\, with the event starting around 7. \nShare this:  \n				Share on X (Opens in new window)  \n				X 				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)  \n				Facebook 				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)  \n				Insta  \n			Like this:Like Loading…
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/postponed-book-launch-liquid-reflections-with-liliane-lijn/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260502T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260502T203000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260414T023023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T095043Z
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: LIQUID REFLECTIONS WITH LILIANE LIJN
DESCRIPTION: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.\nLiliane Lijn is an artist who needs little introduction. Her stirring\, often ostentatious and always poetic works are dotted throughout the British urban landscape\, and overseas. Regular visitors to Housmans will have no doubt seen her recent piece Temenos just up the road from us\, near Granary Square. \nWe will host Liliane May 2nd to launch the paperback edition of her brilliant bildungsroman Liquid Reflections. The book begins in 1958 with the talented and fearless Liliane Lijn leaving her family home and moving to Paris alone to become an artist. Once there\, she found an art world filled with the wild energy of creative revolution – peopled and controlled almost entirely by men. In the years that followed\, Lijn built a life for herself in the city. She embraced the hectic bohemian spirit of the Left Bank. She befriended artists\, painters\, poets\, gallerists and revolutionaries\, as the late Surrealists gave way to a burgeoning Pop Art movement. She had disastrous love affairs with difficult men. She experimented boldly\, creating ground-breaking sculptures with light\, text and movement. And as her profile steadily grew\, she was told again and again that there are no great women artists: ‘There never have been.’ \nLiquid Reflections is her memoir of these years of experiment and adventure – years when Lijn was constantly in motion\, from Paris to New York to Venice to Athens\, from paper and canvas to wax and Perspex to oil and water. In love\, she became pregnant but rebelled against the idea that a woman could not be both a great artist and a mother. And she sought – and found – radical pleasure in the act of creative expression and in the living\, sensuous world around her. \nBased on personal diaries from the time\, this is a riveting and revelatory account of a singular coming of age: a glittering portrait of the artist as a young woman. \n‘I wrote LIQUID REFLECTIONS because I wanted to take my readers on the journey I made to become an artist. It’s the story of an idealistic\, inspired young woman who refuses to accept the prejudices of her time. Becoming an artist was also a search for my own identity…’\n— Liliane Lijn \nLiliane will be conversation with the art writer Jennifer Higgie\, author of numerous books\, her most recent being The Other Side: A Journey into Women\, Art and the Spirit World\, the first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world. \nThis is going to be an extremely special event and we are delighted to be hosting it. Please do book a ticket in advance to avoid disappointment on the night. \nLiliane and Jennifer will talk for around 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by an open discussion with the audience. Doors will open at 6:45\, with the event starting around 7. \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-launch-liquid-reflections-with-liliane-lijn/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260501T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260501T190000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20251215T105202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251216T223854Z
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SUMMARY:First Friday Freedom Fun board game night!
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/first-friday-freedom-fun-board-game-night-5/
LOCATION:Freedom Bookshop\, Angel Alley\, 84b Whitechapel High Street\, E1 7QX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260429T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260429T203000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260331T142936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260603T143556Z
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: The Journal of a Kurdish Political Prisoner
DESCRIPTION: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 known as Rubar Dicle)\, a member of the PKK Central Committee. In 1981\, Ali was captured by Turkish authorities in a rural area of Pazarcık while serving as a PKK cadre. Tried by a military court\, he was sentenced to death. Although the Turkish Supreme Court upheld the sentence\, it was later commuted to twenty-one years and four months of imprisonment following the abolition of the death penalty in Turkey under Prime Minister Turgut Özal. \nAli’s journal records his thoughts and observations\, providing invaluable insight into life inside Turkish prisons\, including the organisation\, morale\, and activities of political prisoners. His journal is a mine of information that lends itself to much probing and understanding of the conflict between the Turkish state and the PKK over the past 45 years. This book is published for scholarly purposes\, following the recent disbandment of the PKK as an armed force\, and the changing political landscape in Turkey today. \nWe will discuss this powerful and important book\, followed by a wider discussion of political imprisonment more generally. \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00. \n 
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-talk-the-journal-of-a-kurdish-political-prisoner/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260428T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260428T210000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260427T022917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T094925Z
UID:6108-1777402800-1777410000@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Reading Group 20 – How Nonviolence Protects The State
DESCRIPTION: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 police brutality apply for police permits\, and anti-imperialists usually stop short of supporting self-defense and armed resistance. How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. In a call bound to stir controversy and lively debate\, Peter Gelderloos invites activists to consider diverse tactics\, passionately arguing that exclusive nonviolence often acts to reinforce the same structures of oppression that activists seek to overthrow.”  \nA free version of How Nonviolence Protects The State can be found at the Anarchist Library here and our friends at Freedom Press here have offered a 10% discount on physical copies for the reading group. Just quote “London SolFed Reading Group” or pop into Freedom for your general radical book buying needs. The reading group will be meeting on Tuesday the 28th of April\, 19:00\, at Freedom Bookshop\, 84b Whitechapel High St\, London E1 7QX. You are welcome to come and join in the discussion even if you have not finished the reading.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/reading-group-20-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state/
LOCATION:Freedom Bookshop\, 84b Whitechapel High Street\, E1 7QX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260425T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260425T140000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260409T022950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T162531Z
UID:5919-1777125600-1777125600@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Herstories Book Club: the volcano lover
DESCRIPTION:☕ Next Herstories Book Club: Sat 25 April\, 2.00-3.30pm\n📍Location: Feminist Library\n📖 Book: The Volcano Lover\, by Susan Sontag (1992)\n📚 Previous books we’ve read: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/herstories-book-club \nA 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. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment\, Sontag’s novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of revolution\, the fate of nature\, art and love.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/herstories-book-club-the-volcano-lover/
LOCATION:The Feminist Library\, 161 Sumner Road\, SE15 6JL
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260424T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260424T193000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260409T022947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T162454Z
UID:5917-1777059000-1777059000@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Old Bomb Theatre Company presents "Craggy Hole Caves"
DESCRIPTION: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 did history first teach that god was a man?“Did you know that Neanderthals actually worshipped women? Yeah\, first religion ever was no pie-in-the-sky beardy bloke for them. None of this pale\, male and stale crap. No\, they worshipped women”Through the caves\, Nele takes us on a tour of the female reproductive system\, “yer basic cradle of life”. Craggy Hole Caves is funny\, it’s rude\, it looks at history when it was herstory and it plays with fire.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/old-bomb-theatre-company-presents-craggy-hole-caves/
LOCATION:The Feminist Library\, 161 Sumner Road\, SE15 6JL
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260424T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260424T203000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260330T142920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T143844Z
UID:5824-1777057200-1777062600@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:PUBLIC LECTURE: Laurence Housman and the Women's Suffrage Movement
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis public lecture will explore Housmans Bookshop namesake Laurence Housman (1865-1958) and his active role in the women’s suffrage movement. It will shed new light on UCL’s Laurence Housman Collection by discussing how Housman’s sociopolitical values emerged during the Victorian period as he developed an artistic practice as an Aesthetic and Decadent illustrator. Housman was also a writer who would go on to contribute to Votes for Women (1908-18)\, a suffrage newspaper edited by Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence. He would later collaborate with his sister\, the engraver Clemence Housman\, to found the Suffrage Atelier\, an artists’ collective. Using illustration as a form of social and political resistance\, Housman designed An Anti-Suffrage Alphabet (1911)\, a work that featured many women artists who would go on to forge professional careers\, including Pamela Colman Smith. \nDr Michelle Reynolds is a researcher in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and visual culture. Her PhD thesis\, which she completed at the University of Exeter\, considered the professionalisation of women illustrators and cartoonists in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and their relationship to the socio-political and cultural phenomenon of the New Woman. Her research interests include women artists and designers\, illustration and book studies\, gender and sexuality\, reform movements\, dress histories\, and graphic satire. \nThis is a free event\, but please RSVP. Link below: \n 
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/public-lecture-laurence-housman-and-the-womens-suffrage-movement/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260423T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260423T203000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260414T023021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T211253Z
UID:5987-1776970800-1776976200@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:DOG SECTION PRESS PRESENTS: FEMINISMS
DESCRIPTION:Dog Section Press presents an evening of poetry\, words and music in celebration of their recent publication: Feminisms. \nCurated 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. \nFeminisms is a collection of ten essays from a diverse milieu of writers on the subject of feminism. Each piece is illustrated by Cat Sims. \nFeminisms features: Ren Aldridge & Janey Starling\, Stacey Clare\, Abu Leila\, Lola Olufemi\, Leah Cowan\, Emma Heaney\, Nazmia Jamal\, Sophie K Rosa\, Sophie Lewis and Dilar Dirik. \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/dog-section-press-presents-feminisms/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Gigs,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260422T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260422T203000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260331T142934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T143741Z
UID:5828-1776884400-1776889800@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES
DESCRIPTION:NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES: CHRISTINE DONOVAN & TOM VAGUE IN CONVERSATION\nJoin 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 tells the story of English literary sensation Julia as she finds herself writing a screenplay with legendary nouvelle vague film director Lenica. The hedonism of the Cannes Film Festival\, the drug-fueled excitement of Les Bains Douche and the tentative writing of a second novel take Julia on a psychogeographical journey Paris. \nJoining Christine in conversation we welcome back to Housmans the living legend Tom Vague\, who has recently published a two part book: Getting It Straight in Notting Hill Gate. From the Palaeolithic age to the drug and sex fuelled psychedelia of the 60s and 70s to the glum post-gentfrified catatonia of the 2020s this work project is an exhaustive psychogeographical autoposy on Notting Hill; as well as a proposed revival. \n‘Vague presents this almost as the autobiography of Notting Hill with him as the inspired mouthpiece\, his own biography mixed with that of the subject. He is the place’ writes Cryptoforestry. \nTom and Christine will talk for around 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by a q&a. \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/new-psychogeographies/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260421T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260421T183000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260415T143012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T211125Z
UID:5996-1776796200-1776796200@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Black feminist reading group
DESCRIPTION:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-feminist-reading-group-tickets-1987… \nJoin us to reflect and imagine together. There’s no set text\, instead we’ll be led by what we bring to this space together.\nThe Black Feminist Reading Group is back next week!\nJoin us on Tuesday 21 April\, 6:30–8:30pm at the Feminist Library (please note the change to our end time).\nThis month\, we’ll be taking time to reflect and imagine together. There’s no set text\, instead we’ll be led by what we bring to this space together.\nWe invite you to:\n– Bring a short piece of your own reflective writing\n– Bring an item (a book\, photo\, or object) that represents your connection to Black Feminism\nOur discussion will be centred on some creative reflection activities. We’ll be looking back on what we’ve read together\, exploring what Black Feminism means to us\, and imagining what this reading group is and could become.\nWhat does the space we create here mean to us? What are we building together?\nNew members are very welcome. Please fill out the membership form here: https://forms.gle/BeGjijCiB5rU3KQu7\nPlease sign up via Eventbrite so we can prepare the space. For questions\, email nonki@feministlibrary.co.uk\nReminder: This is a closed space for Black and POC folks.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/black-feminist-reading-group/
LOCATION:The Feminist Library\, 161 Sumner Road\, SE15 6JL
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260419T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260419T140000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260328T142926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T143605Z
UID:5815-1776607200-1776607200@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:HA! Book Swap
DESCRIPTION:On the 19th of April\, we will be meeting again to swap books. \nBring 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! \nAs part of the event\, we will discuss our next zine\, titled Squats\, Skate Parks and Underpasses. Come chat about how to submit\, what the theme means to you and next steps. \nMeet us at the LARC\, E1 1ES\, at 2pm.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/ha-book-swap/
LOCATION:LARC\, \, E1 1ES
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Gatherings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260418T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260418T163000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260409T022946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T211027Z
UID:5915-1776529800-1776529800@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:The Poetics of Infrastructure.
DESCRIPTION:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986345886016/preview?_gl=1*tmq8*_up*MQ..*_ga*ODk3ODk2MTE3LjE3NzUwNjY4ODI.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3NzUwNjY4ODIkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzUwNjY4ODIkajYwJGwwJGgw \nThis April\, we at the Feminist Library are delighted to host the opening session of “The Poethics of Infrastructure.” With @threadbarecollective. \nThreadbare 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 workshops and a performance night as part of Deptford X. \nFor their first reading group\, “Reading Maps\,” They will gather us together around texts that approach the practise of cartography not as a tool for fixing territories\, but as a speculative and imaginative practice. They’ll read excerpts from The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin (Architectural Association)\, placing the work of Ursula K. Le Guin in conversation with Madeleine de Scudéry’s Carte de Tendre from her novel Clélie (1654–61)\, an early and evocative example of sentimental cartography. \nAcross these invented and reimagined geographies\, mapping will be explored as porous\, collaborative\, and shaped by story\, feeling\, and relation. Together\, maps will be though through as invitations; to wander\, to misread\, and to redraw. \nWe invite you to join us in considering how worlds are mapped into being\, and how cartography might be reimagined to trace spaces of care\, connection\, and collective imagination. \nAll are welcome.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/the-poetics-of-infrastructure/
LOCATION:The Feminist Library\, 161 Sumner Road\, SE15 6JL
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Meetings,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260416T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260416T210000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260403T022919Z
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SUMMARY:Solidarity Screening: – Mohammad Rasoulof – The White Meadows کشتزارهای سپید
DESCRIPTION: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” and “activity against national security.” After multiple attempts to silence his work\, and bans placed on him and his crew to prevent them leaving the country\, he fled Iran. He currently lives in exile in Europe. \nThe White Meadows 2009\, 95 mins \nRhamat\, a sailor without wind who rows his way through a circuit of desert islands is tasked with collecting the tears of the inhabitants. Through allegory\, memory and symbolism\, The film offers a scathing critique of Iran’s political leadership. \nThe screening will be followed by an informal discussion about contemporary struggles in Iran\, as well as solidarity taking place here in the UK.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/solidarity-screening-mohammad-rasoulof-the-white-meadows-%da%a9%d8%b4%d8%aa%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d8%b3%d9%be%db%8c%d8%af/
LOCATION:Mayday Rooms\, 88 Fleet Street\, EC4Y 1AE
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Films
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260416T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260416T190000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260410T142931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T162246Z
UID:5929-1776366000-1776366000@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Book launch: The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy Taking with Ida Susser
DESCRIPTION: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. \nWritten 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 the Yellow Vests to present an accurate and timely picture of a protest movement that baffled analysts and blurred the boundaries of left and right. \nComprehensively exploring the meaning of “les Gilets Jaunes triompheront” (the yellow vests will win)\, written on the Arc de Triomphe in 2018\, The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy details how people of all ages\, many from the provinces and the urban periphery\, rushed through the Paris streets\, breaking windows and braving tear gas\, challenging the ruling class in extraordinary and unpredictable ways. Avoiding hierarchy and stable organization\, and claiming a right to a territory or space that is between the private and the public\, these protests imagined a different form of collectivity that is not commodified but established by the social practice of “commoning”—of momentarily linking protests in the streets and other spaces. \nAn essential book for activists and researchers on contemporary protest movements\, this book offers crucial insight into the formation of protests and popular resistance and how social movements generate their own political and ideological character. \nAbout the author:\nIda Susser\, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center\, City University of New York\, has published on popular mobilizations\, social movements\, and the urban commons in the United States\, Europe\, and Southern Africa. Her books include Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood (2012) and the co- edited volumes\, Rethinking America (2009) and Wounded Cities (2003). \nhttps://www.salon.com/2026/03/28/what-american-activists-can-learn-from-france-right-now/ \nhttps://open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/why-you-cant-wear-a-yellow-vest-in
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-launch-the-yellow-vests-and-the-battle-for-democracy-taking-with-ida-susser/
LOCATION:Freedom Bookshop\, Angel Alley\, 84b Whitechapel High Street\, E1 7QX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260415T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260415T200000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260329T022920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T143403Z
UID:5818-1776277800-1776283200@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: POLICING THE BEATS: Lambros Fatsis in conversation with Adèle Oliver
DESCRIPTION:Policing the beats: Black music\, racism and criminal injustice\nWe 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 his work. \nPolicing The Beats is a bold analysis that exposes the racist policing of Black music. The emergence of UK drill music made headline news\, portraying it as a criminal enterprise instead of recognising it as an art form. This new rap subgenre\, however\, is neither the first nor the only Black music to be targeted this way. \nPolicing the beats rewinds the tape to demonstrate how music has been used as an instrument for policing Black people\, from the era of colonial slavery to the present day\, revealing the racist legal processes that make crimes out of rhymes. \nThis original and readable book offers the first in-depth account of the policing of Black music in Britain\, highlighting the relationship between politics\, culture and criminal (in)justice and inviting music lovers\, scholars and activists to tune in. \nLambros and Adèle will talk for around 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by a q&a. \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-launch-policing-the-beats-lambros-fatsis-in-conversation-with-adele-oliver/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260404T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260404T203000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260320T022940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260321T095215Z
UID:5759-1775329200-1775334600@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: 'A Studious Use' with Giovanni Marmont
DESCRIPTION:A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons. \nJoin 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. \nA Studious Use invites readers to reconsider the habitual logics and material priorities at play in practices of both study and use. It examines their potential and actual interplay\, unravelling the ways in which these are at once shaped by and reproductive of broader social\, political\, and cultural currents. Here Giovanni Marmont explores how a seemingly inoffensive commitment to the terms of individuation\, as a manner of understanding and organising the world first and foremost as an aggregate of separate entities\, carries with it profoundly harmful implications. With an eye toward the unseen possibilities of social life\, he proposes an alternative mode of engagement with and through artefacts – studious use – predicated instead on our general\, shared\, practical indebtedness. Through a blend of theoretical critique\, philosophical inquiry\, and experimental design practices\, A Studious Use offers a rethinking of sociality not as a coming together of independent\, if interacting subjects and objects but\, rather\, as a primary\, undirected\, ongoing collective experiment. \nAuthor of For a Pragmatics of the Useless\,Erin Manning says: “How do practices dispossess us? How does use reorient the very question of function and form? Where else can it take us beyond our-selves? In this compelling engagement with use-beyond-use-value\, Marmont takes us on a journey to a non-binary account of use that refuses the limited account of any marketable claim. Instead\, it moves use toward the surprise of constellations as experimental as they are quotidian.” \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-launch-a-studious-use-with-giovanni-marmont/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260403T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260403T190000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20251215T105202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251216T223848Z
UID:4015-1775242800-1775242800@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:First Friday Freedom Fun board game night!
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/first-friday-freedom-fun-board-game-night-4/
LOCATION:Freedom Bookshop\, Angel Alley\, 84b Whitechapel High Street\, E1 7QX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260402T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260402T190000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260116T142721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T143628Z
UID:4561-1775156400-1775156400@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:First Thursday Freedom board game night!
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/first-thursday-freedom-board-game-night-3/
LOCATION:Freedom Bookshop\, Angel Alley\, 84b Whitechapel High Street\, E1 7QX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260329T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260329T130000
DTSTAMP:20260623T000200
CREATED:20260306T194447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260308T012908Z
UID:5636-1774789200-1774789200@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Unfurling Māori & Pasifika Print Publishing: A Group Study Session at the Feminist Library
DESCRIPTION:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unfurling-maori-pasifika-print-publishing…\nJoin 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:\nHow have indigenous practises of knowledge sharing and collective decision making gone on to shape authorship\, editorial processes\, and collective organising within indigenous publishing practices?\nWhat does it mean to consider print a diasporic medium? How did this material get here\, and what does that tell us about the movement of people and knowledge between settler colonised land and the land of the coloniser through time?\nHow has indigenous feminist publishing in the South Pacific diverged from and resisted the norms of imported white feminism? \nKaiya will share a bit about his work so far with some of this material\, then we will spend most of the session browsing\, reading and discussing what we find together.\nThis hui will prioritise people of the South Pacific diaspora\, as well as those that relate to the material through other indigenous positionalities\, to connect and learn from this whakapapa of mana wāhine & takatāpui publishing. \nThis will be an informal session\, and koreoro will be followed by some food.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/unfurling-maori-pasifika-print-publishing-a-group-study-session-at-the-feminist-library/
LOCATION:The Feminist Library\, 161 Sumner Road\, SE15 6JL
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Workshops
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UID:5754-1774724400-1774733400@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:POETRY: Jazmine Linklater\, Fran Lock\, Sascha Aurora Akhtar and more
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/poetry-jazmine-linklater-fran-lock-sascha-aurora-akhtar-and-more/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Gigs
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260328T213000
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SUMMARY:POETRY: Jazmine Linklater\, Frank Lock\, Sascha Aurora Akhtar and more
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis is a free event\, but please RSBP below to avoid disappointment. \n 
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/poetry-jazmine-linklater-frank-lock-sascha-aurora-akhtar-and-more/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Gigs
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260328T170000
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UID:5584-1774717200-1774717200@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:S.A.F.E. Book Club Fundraiser (Read Books and Fund Abortions)
DESCRIPTION: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 abortionist who was once called “the Wickedest Woman in New York” (Ann Trow Lohman\, better known as Madame Restell). It’s a mystery\, a family saga\, a love story\, and an exquisitely detailed portrait of 19th century America.  \nThe evening is a space to discuss the book\, explore The Feminist Library’s incredible collection\, rave about abortion and raise vital funds for those being failed by healthcare systems across Europe.  \nTickets are available on a sliding scale. There is also the option to donate if you can’t attend\, but still want to support 💌
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/s-a-f-e-book-club-fundraiser-read-books-and-fund-abortions/
LOCATION:The Feminist Library\, 161 Sumner Road\, SE15 6JL
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Meetings
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260325T203000
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Suicide by Roger Hallam
DESCRIPTION:[Eroding Ed’s note: Fuck Roger Hallam\, and boo to Housman’s for stroking his ego. We’d delete it but the event is on radar and our script will just import it again.] \nHousmans 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 legal system that punishes those who resist\, while protecting those who destroy. In July 2024\, Hallam was dragged from a British courtroom for refusing to stay silent about the climate crisis. For “conspiracy to cause a public nuisance\,” he was sentenced to five years in prison—the harshest punishment for civil disobedience in the UK in modern British history. The case made front-page news and drew global outcry. \nSuicide is part memoir\, part political reckoning. Drawing on Hallam’s award-winning research and experience representing himself in four Crown Court trials\, it lays bare the moral and legal failures of a society sleepwalking into catastrophe. From climate science and the right of necessity\, to the collapse of democratic norms and the illusions of secular reason\, this is a radical call to rethink justice\, truth\, and duty in the face of extinction.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-launch-suicide-by-roger-hallam/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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