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SUMMARY:Radical Used Book Fair!
DESCRIPTION:Hey Chicago! We would love if you joined us Sunday\, February 15th for our Radical Used Book Fair (indoor edition!) ????♥️???? \nWe’ll have hundreds of radical books available—many in like-new condition as well as some rare finds. It’ll be an excellent place to stock up for yourself or as gifts for all the activists\, organizers\, and readers in your life! All proceeds will go towards supporting the work of Haymarket House. \nAll paperbacks $4\, hardcovers $6. Accepted payment methods are cash\, card and tap to pay. Please bring your own reusable bags. \nThe Anti-War Committee: Chicago will be tabling and collecting signatures with the goal of ending the investment of Illinois’ public funds into Israel and ICE. Learn more about their work here! \nSee you there! \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nTransit\, Parking & Accessibility\nHaymarket House is located at 800 W. Buena Ave on the corner of Buena and Clarendon in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. The 146\, 151\, and 36 CTA buses stop nearby. The CTA Red Line Sheridan and Wilson stations are each about a 12-15 min walk/roll away. There is free street parking in the surrounding area. Outside of school hours\, parking for a fee is available nearby at the Walt Disney Magnet School lot at 4149 N Clarendon Ave. or the Brenneman School lot at 4251 N. Clarendon Ave\, both are about a block away. Paid parking is also available through parking apps like Spot Hero. \nThere are a couple steps leading up to the front entrance on Buena. The ramp entrance can be accessed from the back parking lot\, via Clarendon Avenue\, just let the event organizers know by emailing casey@haymarketbooks.org upon registration so the door can be propped open.The event will all take place on one level and all restrooms and hallways are wheelchair accessible. We also have a HEPA air recirculator in our main event space. Masks are recommended as this is an indoor event.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/radical-used-book-fair-2/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Join David Omotoso Stovall and Tara Betts as the discuss Stovall’s latest book Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago. \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Book\nMarginalized communities often become understandably preoccupied with a city’s structured attempt to deem them disposable\, making it difficult to see people experiencing the same suffering as potential comrades in struggle. Enemies are manufactured as the result of continued displacement\, hyper-segregation\, and dispossession. Under these impossible circumstances people are often quicker to punch each other before they identify the enemy as white supremacy and capitalism\, creating a society where conflict is engineered. \nExamining the long fight of Black people in Chicago to claim their humanity and thrive in a city while facing school closings\, the destruction of public housing and oppressive law enforcement\, Stovall argues that marginalized communities face unique structural challenges while being blamed for interpersonal conflict and labeled “violent” and deemed disposable. With a novel approach to the question of how state-sanctioned violence and abandonment impacts low-income communities\, Engineered Conflict uses examples from Chicago’s recent history to shed light on the politics of disposability through housing instability\, criminalization\, and school closures. Looking at all three phenomena together allows readers to see how state policies designate some neighborhoods as unviable\, where disinvestment furthers a rationale to contain members of these communities. \nLooking at the many ways Black communities have resisted state violence and the work of local organizations to address marginalization\, Engineered Conflict calls for a powerful movement against the displacement\, disinvestment\, and disposability of Chicago’s Black population. \n**We strongly encourage all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speaker and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.** \nSpeakers:\nDavid Omotoso Stovall is a professor in the Department of Black Studies and Criminology\, Law & Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Born Out of Struggle: Critical Race Theory\, School Creation and the Politics of Interruption. \nTara Betts is the author of Refuse to Disappear\, Break the Habit\, and Arc & Hue. She is a professor in the Peace\, Conflict Studies\, and Social Justice program at DePaul University and part of the faculty at the Solstice MFA program at Lasell University. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies\, including This is the Honey\, Choice Words\, and The Overturning. Her short stories and essays have also appeared in numerous publications\, including Octavia’s Brood\, Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories\, The Whiskey of Our Discontent\, and The Breakbeat Poets.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/engineered-conflict-structural-violence-and-the-future-of-black-life/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:What We Saw in Chicago: Lessons from the CBP Surge
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with local organizers about how our community pushed back against attacks on our neighbors from federal border patrol agents last fall.\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Event\nOver the course of several months\, more than 250 Border Patrol agents were flown into Illinois to assist ICE in carrying out warrantless arrests and racially targeted sweeps. Community organizations documented at least 615 people who were unlawfully detained — a number expected to grow as additional cases are reviewed. \nAlthough this particular surge force has since left Illinois\, federal officials have made it clear that similar operations are likely to return. That makes it essential to take stock of what happened here\, how our communities responded in real time\, and what it means for the months ahead. \n**We ask all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests.** \nSpeakers:\nSpeakers include Rey Wences from Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR)\, Antonio Gutierrez from Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD) and Illinois State Senator Celina Senator Villanueva\, with a special poetry reading from Juliet DeJesus Alejandre. \nThis event is cosponsored by ICIRR\, OCAD and Haymarket Books.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/what-we-saw-in-chicago-lessons-from-the-cbp-surge/
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SUMMARY:Revolutionary Engineers: Learning\, Politics\, and Activism in Pre-1979 Iran
DESCRIPTION:Bill Ayers sits down with author Sepehr Vakil to discuss Vakil’s new book\, Revolutionary Engineers: Learning\, Politics\, and Activism at Aryamehr University of Technology. \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Book\nIn 1966\, the Shah of Iran established Aryamehr University of Technology (AMUT)\, now known as Sharif University of Technology\, as part of a larger campaign to modernize the nation. In 1979\, AMUT engineering students played a critical role in the revolution that overthrew the Shah and his regime. In Revolutionary Engineers\, Sepehr Vakil\, Mahdi Ganjavi\, and Mina Khanlarzadeh present the cultural\, political\, and pedagogical history of AMUT\, from its 1966 establishment up to its pivotal role in the 1979 revolution\, while delving into the complex interplay of global\, national\, and Islamic values in STEM education. \n“Revolutionary Engineers uncovers the captivating story of Sharif University’s role in Iran’s 1979 revolution\, challenging conventional STEM narratives and offering a profound lens on the power of students to shape history.”\n—Ruha Benjamin\, Princeton University\, author of Race After Technology \nRead more about the book here! \n**We strongly encourage all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speaker and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.** \nBuy the book! \nSpeakers:\nSepehr Vakil is a scholar\, writer\, and educator who was born in Iran\, grew up in California\, and now lives in Evanston\, where he is a professor in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. At Northwestern\, he directs new initiatives at the intersection of ethics and technology\, including the Center for Responsible Technology\, Policy\, and Public Dialogue\, and the M.S. in Technology\, People\, and Policy (MTePP) program. Deeply committed to engaging in public scholarship\, Sepehr writes a Substack newsletter exploring ideas about family\, technology\, and culture\, and co-hosts the podcast A Professor and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar (PCWB). A father of five\, he has also begun performing stand-up comedy around Chicago as a creative outlet that extends his commitment to public dialogue and bringing people together through humor\, storytelling\, and community. \nBill Ayers\, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired)\, has written extensively about social justice and democracy\, education and the cultural contexts of schooling\, and teaching as an essentially intellectual\, ethical\, and political enterprise. His books include When Freedom is the Question\, Abolition is the Answer\, A Kind and Just Parent; Teaching toward Freedom; Fugitive Days: A Memoir; Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident\, “You can’t fire the bad ones!” And 18 other Myths about Teachers\, Teachers’ Unions\, and Public Education\, To Teach: The Journey\, in Comics\, Demand the Impossible!\, and Race Course: Against White Supremacy.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/revolutionary-engineers-learning-politics-and-activism-in-pre-1979-iran/
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SUMMARY:Mandatory Reporting Harm Reduction
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Shannon Perez-Darby with special guest Shira Hassan\, this workshop will explore the way that mandatory reporting is used to criminalize families and communities. Together we will discuss why mandatory reporting is not neutral\, how mandatory reporting and family policing connects to other forms of criminalization and how to resist calls to “comply in advance.” \nGet Tickets\nThis workshop is for educators\, social workers\, youth workers\, those in the public health realms and all community members impacted by mandatory reporting and family policing. Come to learn about why these laws are harmful and how to resist! \nSpeakers\nShannon Perez-Darby: A founding member of the Accountable Communities Consortium\, core member of the Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral Project and co-editor of the anthology\, How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action (Haymarket\, 2025)\, Shannon Perez-Darby is a queer\, mixed Latina\, anti-violence advocate\, author\, activist\, and consultant working to create the conditions to support loving\, equitable relationships and communities. Shannon centers queer and trans communities of color while working to address issues of domestic and sexual violence\, accountability\, family policing and prison abolition. \nShira Hassan (she/her) is the former executive director of the Young Women’s Empowerment Project\, an organizing and grassroots movement building project led by and for young people of color that have current or former experience in the sex trade and street economies. A lifelong harm reductionist and prison abolitionist\, Shira has been working on community accountability for nearly 25 years and has helped young people of color start their own organizing projects across the country. \nWith an introduction from Erica Meiners.  \nCo-Sponsors:\nMandatory Reporting is Not Neutral Project: The Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral project works to share survivor stories about the impact of mandatory reporting\, educate communities on harm reduction practices and change the conditions that lead to violence and abuse.\nHow to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action: From leading abolitionist organizers\, How to End Family Policing From Outrage to Action (Haymarket\,2025) is a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/mandatory-reporting-harm-reduction/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:Migra Watch Training with PUÑO at Haymarket House
DESCRIPTION:Join PUÑO for a training on how to document and report ICE activity in your neighborhood. \nGet Tickets\nSince January\, PUÑO has been building collective power to protect Chicago’s immigrant communities through a variety of trainings and connecting Chicagoans to their local rapid response group. At this training organizers will lead attendees in a 2-hour training on how to document and record ICE activity\, as well as how to combat ICE terror in our communities. We will also have materials on site to make own whistle kits and connecting with your local rapid response groups and each other. \nRefreshments will be provided. \nPlease RSVP for free to join us so we can get an accurate headcount! \n***We ask that all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of our community and presenters. If you need accommodations please let us know when you RSVP and we will do our best to meet your needs.*** \n————————————————————– \nAbout Pilsen Unidos por Nuestro Orgullo:\nPUÑO is a coalition dedicated to advocating for the protection of immigrant rights through legal support\, education\, and community engagement in Pilsen and its surrounding areas. \nAbout Haymarket House:\nHaymarket House is a radical community and political event space in Uptown and the Chicago home of Haymarket Books.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/migra-watch-training-with-puno-at-haymarket-house/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fire in Every Direction: Tareq Baconi in conversation with Bill Ayers
DESCRIPTION:Join Tareq Baconi in conversation with Bill Ayers about his new book Fire in Every Direction.  \nGet Tickets\nAbout the Book\nFire in Every Direction is a memoir of political and queer awakening\, of impossible love amidst generations of displacement\, and what it means to return home. One of LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025\, Fire in Every Direction is an account of finding oneself through histories of dispossession and reclaiming what has been silenced. \n  \n**We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.** \nSpeakers\nTareq Baconi is a Palestinian writer\, scholar\, and activist. He is the grandson of refugees from Jerusalem and Haifa and grew up between Amman and Beirut. His work has appeared in\, among others\, The New York Times and The Baffler\, and he contributes essays to The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He has also written for film; his award-winning BFI short One Like Him\, a queer love story set in Jordan\, screened in over thirty festivals. He is the author of Hamas Contained: A History of Palestinian Resistance\, which was shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award\, and Fire in Every Direction. \nBill Ayers is an educator\, organizer and author of numerous books including When Freedom is the Question Abolition is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation (Beacon Press) and Demand the Impossible! A Radical Manifesto (Haymarket Books). \nThis event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Pilsen Community Books.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/fire-in-every-direction-tareq-baconi-in-conversation-with-bill-ayers/
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SUMMARY:No Neutrals There: US Labor\, Zionism\, and the Struggle for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Join Jeff Schuhrke\, Sarah Lazare\, Nesreen Hasan in conversation about Schuhrke latest book No Neutrals There: US Labor\, Zionism\, and the Struggle for Palestine. \nGet Tickets\nAbout the Book\nUS trade unionists are often told to keep quiet and remain neutral on Palestine because “Palestine has nothing to do with unions” and “weighing in” only distracts from struggles for better working conditions. \nNo Neutrals There: US Labor\, Zionism\, and the Struggle for Palestineis a book that convincingly demonstrates that unions in the United States have never been silent or neutral on the question of Palestine. In fact\, they have played a key role—in the initial Zionist colonization of Palestine\, the foundation of the Israeli state in 1948\, supporting US foreign policy commitments to Israel\, and the ongoing suppression of the Palestinian liberation movement. \nSchuhrke conclusively shows that US unions helped build and maintain the state of Israel\, and also shines a light on important exceptions to this rule: instances of US labor solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle that point the way forward for today’s labor movement. \n***This in person event will be live-streamed through Haymarket Books. Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the video conference on the day of the event. We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speaker and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.*** \nSpeakers\nJeff Schuhrke is a labor historian and assistant professor at the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. School of Labor Studies\, SUNY Empire State University. He is the author of Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade. His writing appears frequently in Jacobin\, In These Times\, Jewish Currents\, and Labor Notes. \nSarah Lazare is a journalist\, focusing on labor and US militarism\, and editor of Workday Magazine. \nNesreen Hasan was born and raised on the southwest side of Chicago to a Palestinian family. She graduated from Governors State University\, majoring in Criminology and minoring in Social Work. She finished her MA in Social Work from the UIC Jane Addams School of Social Work. \nThis event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available\, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/no-neutrals-there-us-labor-zionism-and-the-struggle-for-palestine/
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SUMMARY:We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Join Haymarket Books and HotHouse Media for a conversation about US solidarity for the fight to end apartheid and colonialism in Africa and lessons for our movements for liberation today. Sylvia Ewing and Martha Biondi moderate a panel discussion featuring Prexy Nesbitt\, Basil Clunie\, Cheryl Johnson-Odim\, Lisa Brock\, and Anne Evens. \nGet Tickets\nAbout the Book\nWe Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation (Berkeley: University of California Press\, 2025) This book tells the transnational story of the Chicago anti-apartheid and anticolonial solidarity movement through the organizing work of Prexy Nesbitt. From the 1960s to the 1990s\, he built upon multiple international networks to combat imperialism and racism locally and globally. \nLink to book to preorder \n***This in person event will be live-streamed through Haymarket Books. Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the video conference on the day of the event. We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speaker and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments.*** \nSpeakers\nA lifelong organizer\, Prexy Nesbitt was a key leader of US solidarity work with African liberation struggles from the 1960s through the 21st century. Nesbitt founded several pivotal internationalist organizations\, including the Mozambique Solidarity Network\, the Chicago Committee for the Liberation of Angola\, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau\, the Chicago Coalition for Illinois Divestment from South Africa and the Chicago Committee in Solidarity with Southern Africa. Nesbitt worked for Mayor Harold Washington\, the World Council of Churches\, several unions and taught for many years at Columbia College in Chicago. \nMartha Biondi is the Lorraine H. Morton Professor of Black Studies and Professor of History. A scholar of 20th century African American history\, Biondi’s teaching and research focus on social movements and Black politics. Her book\, The Black Revolution on Campus\, tells the story of the Black student movement of the late 1960s and the rise of Black Studies and affirmative action on college campuses across the country. She is the author of We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation. \nSylvia Ewing is a Chicago-based journalist with a long history in broadcast television and other platforms. She’s an organizer\, teacher and poet who worked for many years on solidarity organizing for southern Africa. \nLisa Brock is an historian of the African Diaspora who taught for many years at Columbia College Chicago where she founded and built the Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection. She directed the Arcus Center for Social Justice at Kalamazoo College. Lisa was active in the antiapartheid and broader solidarity movement in southern Africa. \nBasil Clunie\, a transplanted New Yorker\, worked for many years at Northwestern University. He was active in the Chicago divestment and Free South Africa Movement and traveled to South Africa as an election observer as part of the historic 1994 elections. \nAnne Evens heads Elevate\, a nonprofit that works to promote equitable access to clean\, safe\, and affordable heat\, power\, and water for people—no matter who they are\, or where they live. Evens was active in the antiapartheid movement and lived for several years as a “cooperante” in Mozambique. \nCheryl Johnson-Odim is an historian of Africa who spent her career as a professor\, dean and provost in Chicago-area colleges and universities. She was a leader in the divestment and Free South Africa campaigns in Chicago. \n\nThis event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and HotHouse While all of our events are freely available\, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/we-are-internationalists-prexy-nesbitt-and-the-fight-for-african-liberation/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:Films for a Changing World presents: A State of Passion
DESCRIPTION:Join us Sunday\, November 2nd at 3:30 PM for a for a screening of a A State of Passion at Haymarket House. \nRegister\nHaymarket Books is proud to present the next installment in our community film series: Films for a Changing World in celebration of Palestine Cinema Days. On the somber anniversary of the Balfour Declaration\, observed on November 2nd\, and in an effort to amplify Palestinian voices\, we are screening A State of Passion directed by Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi. \nAbout the Film\nAfter 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals\, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon\, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah\, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance. \nThis was Ghassan’s sixth and most horrific Gaza “war”. Why does he do it? Where does he find the strength to face it again and again? How does it impact his family? How do they process the risks he takes? The answer lies simply in their shared passion: Palestine\, a passion they articulate through their support of his perilous humanitarian work. \nThis screening is part of Palestine Cinema Days\, and is being sponsored by Palestine Legal\, Chicago Palestine Film Festival and Haymarket Books. While this event is free donations are strongly encouraged and all donations will go to Palestine Legal to support their work protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom. Please donate if you can. \n**We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of all attendees** \nAbout the Series\nHaymarket Books is proud to present the third installment in our community film series: Films for a Changing World. We envision this community film series to be a place for people to come together in community during this volatile political moment. In times like these\, our struggle to change the world can feel even more difficult to sustain and we hope these events will be a space to share a collective cultural experience and connect with one another.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/films-for-a-changing-world-presents-a-state-of-passion/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:Migra Watch Training with PUÑO
DESCRIPTION:Join PUÑO for a training on how to document and report ICE activity in your neighborhood.  \nGet Tickets\nSince January\, PUÑO has been building collective power to protect Chicago’s immigrant communities through a variety of trainings and connecting Chicagoans to their local rapid response group. At this training organizers will lead attendees in a 2-hour training on how to document and record ICE activity\, as well as how to combat ICE terror in our communities. Those who are able to stay after the training are invited to spend time making their own whistle kit and connecting with members of the Uptown rapid response group and each other. \nRefreshments will be provided. \nPlease RSVP for free to join us so we can get an accurate headcount! \n***We ask that all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of our community and presenters. If you need accommodations please let us know when you RSVP and we will do our best to meet your needs.*** \n————————————————————– \nAbout Pilsen Unidos por Nuestro Orgullo:\nPUÑO is a coalition dedicated to advocating for the protection of immigrant rights through legal support\, education\, and community engagement in Pilsen and its surrounding areas. \nAbout Haymarket House:\nHaymarket House is a radical community and political event space in Uptown and the Chicago home of Haymarket Books. \n 
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/migra-watch-training-with-puno/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the publication of We Are Each Other’s Liberation\, a groundbreaking anthology centering Black and Asian feminist solidarities. \nGet Tickets\nAbout the Book\nEmerging out of a collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective\, We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities offers an urgent call for the just future we might build together. Drawing out lessons from the revolutionary work of movement forebearers and bringing together organizers\, artists\, journalists\, poets\, novelists\, and more\, this collection envisions a cross-racial and internationalist politics. \nJoin us for a panel discussion with the book’s co-editors and readings from contributors in the anthology. We are excited to celebrate and be in community with you! \n**We ask that all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speaker and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.** \nSpeakers\n\nDemita Frazier\, JD\, is a cofounder of the Black radical feminist Combahee River Collective. She is a coauthor of the Combahee River Collective Statement\, considered a groundbreaking Black feminist treatise that has\, since its publication in 1977\, laid the foundation for the emergence and development of global Black feminist movements. \nMoya Bailey is a Professor at Northwestern University and is the founder of the Digital Apothecary and co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective. She is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network and the Board President of Allied Media Projects\, a Detroit-based movement media organization that supports an ever-growing network of activists and organizers. She is a co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press\, 2020) and is the author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (New York University Press\, 2021). She is an award winning documentarian after completing the short documentary You Just Watch & See (2025) featuring her late Cousin Dollie\, and is completing a docuseries Misogynoir in Medicine. \nEunsong Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Northeastern University. Her practice spans: literary studies\, critical digital studies\, poetics\, translation\, visual culture and critical race & ethnic studies. She is the author of gospel of regicide (Noemi\, 2017)\, and with Sung Gi Kim she translated Kim Eon Hee’s poetic text Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days? published in 2019. Her monograph\, The Politics of Collecting: Race & the Aestheticization of Property (Duke 2024) materializes the histories of immaterialism by examining the rise of US museums\, avant-garde forms\, digitization\, and neoliberal aesthetics\, to consider how race and property become foundational to modern artistic institutions. She is the recipient of the Ford Foundation Fellowship\, a grant from the Andy Warhol Art Writers Program\, and Yale’s Poynter Fellowship. In 2021 she co-founded offshoot\, an arts space for transnational activist conversations. \nJaimee A. Swift is the founder and executive director of Black Women Radicals and The School for Black Feminist Politics. \nRachel Kuo is an assistant professor of gender and women studies and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, author of Movement Media: In Pursuit of Solidarity (Oxford University Press) and cofounder of the Asian American Feminist Collective. \nTD Tso is a feminist writer\, editor\, cultural organizer\, and cofounder of the Asian American Feminist Collective. \n————————————————————– \nBlack Women Radicals (BWR) is a Black feminist advocacy organization dedicated to uplifting and centering Black women and gender expansive people’s radical political activism. Rooted in intersectional and transnational Black feminisms and Womanisms\, we are committed to empowering Black transgender\, queer\, and cisgender radical women and gender expansive activists by centering their political\, intellectual\, and cultural contributions to the field of Black Politics across time\, space\, and place in Africa and the African Diaspora. \nAsian American Feminist Collective (AAFC) is a grassroots racial and gender justice group based in New York City engaging in intersectional feminist politics grounded within our diasporic communities. We work to interrogate and dismantle systems of racism\, imperialism\, patriarchy\, and capitalism and are deeply invested in abolition\, queer liberation\, cross-racial solidarity\, and collective joy. \nThis event is sponsored by Black Women Radicals\, Asian American Feminist Collective\, and Haymarket Books. While all our events are freely available we ask that those who are able make a donation to support our ongoing programming work. \n 
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/black-and-asian-feminist-solidarities/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:To Washington Park\, With Love
DESCRIPTION:Join photographer Rose Blouin in conversation with Amina Dickerson as they celebrate Blouin’s vibrant collected work\, To Washington Park\, With Love. \nGet Tickets\nAbout the Book\nTo Washington Park\, With Love is a book of stunning black and white photographs\, capturing the events\, people\, and landscape of Chicago’s Washington Park during the summer of 1987. \nLocated in Chicago’s South side and designed by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted\, Washington Park takes its name from the first president of the United States. But in 1987\, for at least one joyous summer\, the community claimed it as their own—even renamed it Harold Washington Park—as depicted in this vibrant collection of work by Chicagoan and photographer\, Rose Blouin. The resulting images represent a profile of Chicago’s Black community in a place where they come together for recreation\, festivals\, sports\, community events\, parades\, weddings\, and other arts and cultural events. \nThese photographs brim with the delights of summer: a verdant natural world\, food\, fun\, music\, family gatherings\, and a community inhabiting the vast expanse of the Chicago park.They embody the diversity\, strength\, and humanity of the people for whom Washington Park is a summertime gathering place. To Washington Park\, With Love includes forewords by Eve L. Ewing and Adrienne Brown\, contextualizing and celebrating the 140 black and white photographs from Blouin’s indispensable body of work.\n \n**We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.** \nSpeakers\n\nRose Blouin is a self-taught photographer who has created documentary and fine art photography since 1980. Her work has been exhibited widely including\, ARC Gallery\, The South Side Community Art Center and others. Their work earned juried exhibition awards including University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts “Chicago Jazz: A Photographer’s View\,” and DuSable Museum Annual Art Fair. To Washington Park\, With Love: Photographs from the Summer of 1987\, was mounted at Arts + Public Life Arts Incubator Galleries in 2021. \nAmina Dickerson is a seasoned leader\, coach\, strategist\, and consultant in the corporate\, non-profit and philanthropy sectors. Her areas of focus include leadership development\, cultural planning\, and strategic partnerships and diversity\, equity\, inclusion\, justice\, and accessibility (DEIJA). She held executive posts with the National Museum of African Art\, Smithsonian Institution\, Chicago Historical Society\, and DuSable Museum of African American History. \n————————————————————– \nThis event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available\, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/to-washington-park-with-love/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:Films for a Changing World Presents: YINTAH
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday\, October 16th at 6 PM for a screening of Jennifer Wickham\, Brenda Michell\, and Michael Toledano’s 2024 documentary YINTAH. \nGet Tickets\nThe film will be followed by a discussion led by Dr. Dorene P. Wiese\, chief executive officer of the American Indian Association of Illinois. Admission to the screening is free. Any donations will go to supporting legal costs for Wet’suwet’en land defenders featured in the film. \nAbout the Film\nYINTAH – meaning “land” – is a feature-length documentary on the Wet’suwet’en fight for sovereignty. Spanning more than a decade\, the film follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from several of the largest fossil fuel companies on earth. YINTAH is the story of the Indigenous right to sovereignty over Indigenous territories. Freda\, Molly\, and the Dinï ze’ and Tsakë ze’ are part of a centuries-long fight to protect their children\, culture\, and land from colonial violence. For the Wet’suwet’en\, their very future is at stake. \nWatch the trailer for YINTAH here! \nWe ask that all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speaker and other guests. Here is more information about parking and building accessibility. \nDetails\nTransit and Parking\nHaymarket House is located at 800 W. Buena Ave on the corner of Buena and Clarendon in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. The 146\, 151\, and 36 CTA buses stop nearby. The CTA Red Line Sheridan and Wilson stations are each about a 12-15 min walk/roll away. There is free street parking in the surrounding area. Outside of school hours \, parking for a fee is available nearby at the Walt Disney Magnet School lot at 4149 N Clarendon Ave. or the Brenneman School lot at 4251 N. Clarendon Ave\, both are about a block away. Paid parking is also available through parking apps like Spot Hero. \nAccessibility\nThere are a couple steps leading up to the front entrance on Buena. The ramp entrance can be accessed from the back parking lot\, via Clarendon Avenue. For the ramp entrance to the house\, please email casey@haymarketbooks.org after registering. The event will all take place on one level and all restrooms and hallways are wheelchair accessible. \nAbout the Series\nHaymarket Books is proud to present the second installment in our community film series: Films for a Changing World. We envision this community film series to be a place for people to come together in community during this volatile political moment. In times like these\, our struggle to change the world can feel even more difficult to sustain and we hope these events will be a space to share a collective cultural experience and connect with one another.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/films-for-a-changing-world-presents-yintah/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:Radical Used Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:Hey Chicago! Join us Saturday\, October 11th at Haymarket House (800 W. Buena Ave.) for our Radical Used Book Fair: Fall Edition! \nAll proceeds will go towards supporting our Books Not Bars program. \nWe’ll have hundreds of radical books available—many in like-new condition\, as well as some rare finds. It’ll be an excellent place to stock up for yourself or as gifts for all the activists and organizers in your life! \nStop by for some spooky fall tunes\, pumpkins\, crafts and more! \nParking is limited\, we encourage you to take public transportation or bike if possible and please bring your own reusable bags. \nSee you there!
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/radical-used-book-fair/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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