Posted on May 11th, 2016 in Events
Octavia’s Brood is an anthology of original science fiction from social justice movements written by organizers and activists. Each of the 20 stories reimagines the world we live in, putting forth compelling futures with new questions, new visions to explore.
May 18 at 6:30pm in the theater, co-editors Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown, along with contributing writer Gabriel Teodros will engage in a community conversation around radical science fiction and organizing.
May 19 at 10:30am in PUB 9208: Collective Sci-Fi Writing Workshop! Walidah Imarisha, adrienne maree brown, and Gabriel Teodros will lead participants through a collective story-telling/writing workshop where you create collective and individual stories based on current political issues.
May 19 at 1:30pm in PUB 9208: Sci-Fi & Direct Action Training! Participants will use familiar stories of other worlds (such as Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Oz, Harry Potter, etc.) to design direct action campaigns that parallel the world we are fighting for in the here and now. By the end of session, regimes will be toppled, evil forces vanquished and solid skills in direct action organizing developed.
Posted on May 11th, 2016 in Events
With insights from dozens of scholars and troublemakers, Keywords for Radicals explores the words that shape our political landscape. Each entry highlights a term’s contested variations, traces its evolving usage, and speculates about what its historical mutations can tell us. More than a glossary, this is a crucial study of the power of language and the social contradictions hidden within it.
Join editors Clare O’Connor and AK Thompson at Interference Archive for a lecture and discussion on the politics of keywords and data visualization.
Posted on May 11th, 2016 in Events
Stop by our tables at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair!
Posted on May 11th, 2016 in Events
With insights from dozens of scholars and troublemakers, Keywords for Radicals explores the words that shape our political landscape. Each entry highlights a term’s contested variations, traces its evolving usage, and speculates about what its historical mutations can tell us. More than a glossary, this is a crucial study of the power of language and the social contradictions hidden within it.
Join Keywords for Radicals editors and contributors at Brooklyn Commons for the official NYC book launch event: an engaging discussion about the world within our words!
Posted on May 11th, 2016 in Events
Visit the AK Press tables and also check out sessions with AK Press authors including the editors of Keywords for Radicals, contributors from Octavia’s Brood, and more!
You can find more information and a complete schedule of sessions here: http://www.leftforum.org/
Posted on May 11th, 2016 in Events
In celebration of the release of the second expanded edition of Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, this panel will bring together Reina Gossett and CeCe McDonald to highlight the linkages between institutions, racialized force, and unfreedom. Further, we will collectively think about the uses and limits of the emergent field of “trans studies,” mainstream representations, and the futures of prison abolition.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Copies of Captive Genders will be available for purches at the event, and a book signing will follow the panel.
CeCe McDonald is a Black transgender woman and LGBTQ activist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She came to national attention in June 2012 for defending herself from a racist and transphobic attack, resulting in her own imprisonment in a men’s correctional facility. CeCe has been speaking nationwide since her release and has received a variety of LGBTQ-focused accolades from worldwide organizations.
Reina Gossett is a activist, writer, and artist and the 2014-2016 Activist-In-Residence at Barnard College’s Center for Research on Women. As the membership director at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project from 2010 to 2014, Reina worked to lift the voice and power of trans and gender non conforming people and took part in the successful campaign to end healthcare discrimination to low income trans and gender non conforming New Yorkers.
Moderated by Eric A Stanley, an editor of Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex and an an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside.
Posted on April 8th, 2016 in Events
Join AK Press, Autonomedia, Common Notions, Haymarket Books, PM Press, Verso Books, Zero Books and more to be announced. An opportunity to see many of the new offerings from a wide range of left publishing. For brief moments during the day, there will be readings from selected texts. Food and drink available at the Commons Cafe all day.
Posted on April 4th, 2016 in Events
Come check out the AK Press tables—including a full table of sale books—at one of our favorite annual events! You can find more details and a speaker schedule at bayareaanarchistbookfair.com.
Posted on April 4th, 2016 in Events
Find our books in booth #910 at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books!
Posted on April 4th, 2016 in Events
With insights from dozens of scholars and troublemakers, Keywords for Radicals explores the words that shape our political landscape. Each entry highlights a term’s contested variations, traces its evolving usage, and speculates about what its historical mutations can tell us. More than a glossary, this is a crucial study of the power of language and the social contradictions hidden within it.
This event at The Base will be a workshop and discussion on movement building and radical education, featuring editors Clare O’Connor and AK Thompson.
