Libraries for the Commons

Sunday, October 4, 2020 from 4pm-5:30pm (virtual)

We invite anyone interested in radical, insurgent, abolitionist, mutual aid, and/or collective libraries to join for a conversation about visions and practices of libraries for the commons. We hope this can be a space for people to meet one another, share resources and projects, and think together about the possibilities for libraries at this moment.

Becoming Complicit

Tuesdays, October 6, 13, 2020 7:30-9:30pm EST (virtual)

Complicity can feel like a dirty word. It’s normally conceived as a kind of problem, something one can (and should) overcome or disavow. But is complicity only a burden? Can complicity be a practice of multiplicity? What might happen if, in our refusal of what tries to regulate us into compliance, we didn’t try to overcome complicity but rather radically inhabited it? This group aims to drift through and keep ajar various ideas, possibilities, and practices of the intersecting complicities we find ourselves enmeshed in. Perhaps we can see and feel how complicity could be kind of a tool of conviviality, an occasion to gather in sabotage.

Possible readings include texts by Indigenous Action, Manolo Callahan, Audre Lorde, Laura Harris, Sara Ahmed, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

Renee Gladman Reading Group

(distanced meet up in Ft. Greene Park on Sundays)

Building off our virtual study group in September, we are going to continue reading and looking at Renee Gladman’s work together, meeting in Ft. Greene Park once or twice a month. If you are interested in learning more or joining, you can sign up below!