South End Press

(n.) an independent, np, collectively-organized movement publisher. Since 1977, meeting the needs of those who are exploring, or already committed to, the politics of radical social change. See also Read. Write. Revolt.

[southendpress-blog]

#EliClare: On good days, I can separate the anger I turn inward at my body from the anger that needs to be turned outward, directed at the daily ableist shit, but there is nothing simple or neat about kindling the latter while transforming the former.

Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation

[southendpress-blog]

EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS NAMES BELL HOOKS FIRST SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE

Groundbreaking author, activist, and public intellectual will take part in public events, master classes, faculty workshops, and more

Tuesday, November 5, 5:00-6:30pm Beyond the Body? A public dialogue between bell hooks + Eve Ensler Tishman Auditorium, The New School 66 W 12th St New York, NY 10011 Free

Friday, November 8, 3:30-5:00pm Black Female Voices: Who Is Listening A public dialogue between bell hooks + Melissa Harris-Perry Tishman Auditorium, The New School 66 W 12th St New York, NY 10011 Free

NEW YORK – OCTOBER 2, 2013 -- This fall, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts welcomes author and radical thinker bell hooks for a weeklong residency, featuring classes, seminars, and public events. The residency will run from November 4 to November 8.

For more than three decades bell hooks has received international recognition as a scholar, poet, speaker, and author. She has written critically acclaimed, widely read, and influential books and articles on feminism, spirituality, race, and class. She has appeared in documentary films, and she has been celebrated as one of our nation’s leading public intellectuals by The Atlantic Monthly, as well as one of Utne Reader’s “100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life.” bell hooks is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world.

On Tuesday, November 5, hooks will be in conversation with fellow activist and author Eve Ensler, whose work The Vagina Monologues has been instrumental in raising consciousness around issues of the female body, and given rise to V-Day, a global movement dedicated to ending violence against women and girls. On Friday, November 8, hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor at Tulane University and host of MSNBC’s weekly political analysis program Melissa Harris-Perry, will discuss the power and role of black women’s voices in shaping public discourse.

“I am deeply honored to invite my colleague and friend bell hooks to our community given her commitment to education as the practice of freedom,” said Lang Dean Stephanie Browner. “Her work resonates with people from all walks of life. bell gracefully moves between different yet deeply interconnected subjects, from politics to love, race to spirituality, gender to lived bodies.”

“New York City has long been of great importance to my work,” said hooks. “The diversity of people, arts, politics, and expression the city makes possible has always nurtured my writing and my thinking.” She looks forward to her week-long residency at The New School, an institution, she says, “that also has a commitment to education as liberation.” 

About bell hooks When Gloria Jean Watkins published her first book, And There We Wept, in 1978, she released it under the name “bell hooks” for two reasons. The first was to honor her maternal grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks, whom she has described as being “known for her snappy and bold tongue.” Secondly, and more broadly, the name and its lower-case written form serves to de-emphasize the author as person and instead focus the reader’s attention on the subject of her writing.

hooks’ writing, dozens of books and articles published across five decades, has dealt with numerous topics, and encompasses several genres, including cultural and political analyses and critiques, personal memoirs, poetry collections, and children’s books. One prominent theme in her work has been education. She has called for an approach to learning that nurtures “radical critical consciousness.” “To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can learn,” she wrote in 1994’s Teaching to Transgress. “The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all its limitations remains a location of possibility.”

About Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts is a seminar-style liberal arts college located in New York City that was established in 1985. Remaining faithful to its founding philosophy, Eugene Lang College grew out of a highly progressive freshman-year program developed at The New School in 1973. Lang offers intensive liberal arts study as well as a faculty committed to teaching undergraduates in an interdisciplinary context. Areas of study include religious studies, urban studies, social inquiry, interdisciplinary science, culture and media, literary studies, the arts, philosophy, psychology, economics, environmental studies, and education studies. For more information, visit www.lang.newschool.edu.

About The New School Founded in 1919, The New School was born out of the principles of academic freedom, tolerance, and experimentation. Committed to civic engagement and social justice, The New School today remains in the vanguard of innovation in higher education, with more than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students challenging the status quo in design and the social sciences, liberal arts, management, the arts, and media. The New School welcomes thousands of adult learners annually for continuing education courses and a calendar of lectures, screenings, readings, and concerts. Through its online learning portals, research institutes, and international partnerships, The New School maintains a global presence. Learn more at www.newschool.edu.

###

[southendpress-blog]

9/29: #RaceClassPowerAndOrganizingInEastBaltimore #MariselaGomez #BaltimoreBookFest #antidisplacement http://tinyurl.com/l877kg9

[southendpress-blog]

9/29: #MaroonTheImplacable #BaltimoreBookFest #RussellMaroonShoatz http://tinyurl.com/k2qnf2x

[blackspeculativefiction]

ALIEN ENCOUNTERS IV: The Black Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Experience Returns!

ALIEN ENCOUNTERS IV: The Black Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Experience Returns!

View Post

[afrofuturistaffair]

Once again, Alien Encounters, the annual conference for Black speculative and imaginative fiction, film and music – which serves as a venue for both education and entertainment – returns to Atlanta in October, which is now recognized worldwide as Black Speculative Fiction month!

[southendpress-blog]

27 AUGUST 2013 | Dr Martin Paul Eve

SXSW Panel: Vote to Get Open Access on the Agenda

So, in conjunction with the amazing people at South End Press — a group of people unsurpassed in my esteem — I’m proud to be part of a proposal for the SXSW conference this year. However, we need you to VOTE FOR OUR PANEL at PanelPicker.

Please do this. It takes 2 minutes.

What are we planning to talk about?

How has digital publishing affected small independent presses?

Are small independent presses suffering and why?

Are there small presses thriving? How?

What can we do and how do we move forward to ensure that marginalized, unpopular ideas continue to be expressed and spread?

What is open access really?

What I like about this is that it would provide us the opportunity to be radical, in its original sense of going back to the roots. Rather than focusing on the pragmatic issues of business models, government mandates, implementation strategies and negotiation of evaluation paradigms etc., I think that this panel would afford us the opportunity to truly address the question: what do we want from open access? (and who is that “we”?)

As Peter Suber is at pains to point out in his excellent Open Access, being open is not universal. Here we want to explore how it is that this is often overlooked. Who are those communities who would, perhaps, most benefit through broad dissemination and exposure, but are simultaneously those whose very entry into the open access sphere is precluded through marginalisation?

As I see it, this type of approach could tie in well with other initiatives, such as Adeline Koh’s Postcolonial Digital Humanities (dhpoco), in an exploration of the ways in which technology can frequently act as a mask and reproducer, rather than enabler, of social inequality (along lines of race, gender, sexuality etc.).

“What is open access really?” — perhaps, were it not for the accidents of history, it would just be called “publishing”. That doesn’t mean, though, that it will inherently erase inequality. Unless, that is, we build the social structures around the technology to facilitate such a move.

Please vote for us.

[southendpress-blog]

The undoing of privilege occurs not by individuals confessing their privileges or trying to think themselves into a new subject position, but through the creation of collective structures that dismantle the systems that enable these privileges.

::: Andrea Smith, "The Problem of Privilege" (from Geographies of Privilege)

[southendpress-blog]

Because book/rebel love is serious. And beautiful.

[southendpress-blog]

"The rupture in the cycle of life has become the market opportunity... and that is why at this point the real contest is between the economy of life and the economy of death."

--Dr. Vandana Shiva in an amazing, prescient lecture (Seattle, WA, July 2002)

[southendpress-blog]

"Power does not only operate on our bodies, and the use it makes of our bodies is--even in extreme cases, such as torture--often but a means for imposing on our interior worlds. For power seeks to shape, mobilize, and exploit, not just our bodies, but our desires, fears, insecurities, loyalties, values, creativity--our whole selves. These elements--which characterize both our individuality and our shared humanity--may also be seen as sites of struggle, and may provide a basis for resistance."

::: Kristian Williams, Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy (Microcosm Publishing, 2012)

[southendpress-blog]

This Week w/Winona LaDuke: Minneapolis, Haverford, PA (+major conf in April)

Th 3/29/12, 6:30pm, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus): Honoring the Earth, Transforming Our Communities: Winona LaDuke on Environmental Justice. Free but RSVP encouraged.

F 3/30/12, 7:30pm, Haverford College (Haverford, PA): Recovering the Sacred: Religion, Faith and the Land from a Native Perspective. Free

More talks coming up in April. Check out Honor the Earth, SpeakOut and/or follow South End Press for updates.

P.S. From Honor the Earth:

"A 3-day conference, "Rights of Mother Earth: Restoring Indigenous Life Ways of Responsibility and Respect," has been scheduled at Haskell Indian Nations University, in Lawrence, Kansas, April 4-6, 2012, with Indigenous Peoples together from the North and Global South to learn more and to have a discourse about this Rights of Mother Earth, Rights of Nature movement.

"We invite humanity to come together to improve our collective human behavior so that we may develop a more sustainable world. We can preserve, protect, and fulfill our sacred duties to live with respect in this wonderful Creation. We have the power and responsibility for change.  "Tom B.K. Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network Dr. Daniel Wildcat, Haskell Indian Nation University"

[southendpress-blog]

This year Brown College's ViEWS Lecture Series welcomes Richard Tucker, Kate Rigby, Sean Borton, and Vandana Shiva.

[southendpress-blog]

Read & Resist, Donate & Download: Or, Making Books “Unbannable”

The fight to erase our histories and disempower our communities didn’t begin in Tucson, or in 2012, and it doesn’t end there. We stand in solidarity with the students, educators, authors, activists, families, and communities affected by—and rising up against— this injustice, and ask you to join us in supporting the converging resistance movements in Tucson and far beyond. (More on the “how to donate & download” rundown, below.) “Luckily,” as bell hooks recently observed during a lecture at Arizona State University, “we’re not dependent on Arizona.” As part of this effort by Librotraficante and this growing movement, and in honor of both Small Press Month and Women’s Herstory Month, we are now making downloadable eseeds available of two titles from the banned book list: Zapata’s Disciple, by Martín Espada, and De Colores Means All of Us, by Elizabeth Martinez (for a limited time only).

Your sliding scale donation (starting at $20, see below) will help ensure that we can continue to make these books available in both digital and print formats, be it to a banned books caravan, underground libraries, or beyond. To you.

How To Donate & Download!

Donate $20 and we’ll email you a downloadable eseed of either Zapata's Disciple or De Colores Means All of Us. When making your donation, just be sure to (1) include your email address and (2) note which banned title you want in the Designation field e.g., “for Zapata's Disciple.” After we receive your donation, we’ll email you with a link.

Donate $40 and we’ll email you a downloadable eseed of either Zapata's Disciple or De Colores Means All of Us, OR we'll ship you a print copy of another SEP title from this brave list of banned books, Feminism Is for Everybody, by bell hooks. AND you’ll not only be building your own personal library, but also seeding a larger radical library movement: We’ll ship a paperback edition to one of the underground libraries, aiming to donate at least one complete set of the three banned titles to each of the four named libraries. When making your donation, just be sure to (1) include your email address and (2) note which banned title you want to download & donate in the Designation field e.g., “for De Colores.” After we receive your donation, we’ll email you with a link or, if you elect the print edition of Feminism Is for Everybody, follow up for your shipping info.

Donate $100? We’ll email you links for Zapata's Disciple and De Colores Means All of Us in downloadable eseeds, send you a print edition of Feminism Is for Everybody, AND we’ll donate all three banned SEP books, in paperback editions, to an underground library. Once each underground library has a full set, we’ll donate the books to the libraries in your neighborhoods and communities, large or small. (If your donation arrives after we’ve supplied full sets to the underground libraries, we’ll email you to ask what library you’d like the books sent to!) When making your donation, just be sure to include your email address. After we receive your donation, we’ll email you with your links and follow up for your shipping info.

We just reprinted Feminism Is for Everybody and Zapata’s Disciple, and De Colores Means All of Us is at the printer now. Please help us put into action our mission to both nurture radical literature and make it accessible to the movements it comes from and advances. We can’t do this without you, nor would we want to. So, donate and download today! (Psst…see above for donate & download instructions.) We’re in this fight for the long haul, and it’s going to take a movement. So please, pass this appeal on, and, as always THANK YOU for all your efforts toward radical peace, justice & liberation. Strength and joy, the South End Press collective Read. Write. Revolt.

Find out more about & join the Librotraficante movement!

"Download & Donate" quicklinks! 

Donate $20 for 1 of 2 banned SEP book downloads (Zapata's Disciple or De Colores)

Donate $40 for 1 of 2 banned SEP book downloads (+ we'll send you FIFE in paperback AND a paperback edition of a banned SEP title to an underground library)

Donate $100 for both downloads + FIFE in paperback (and we'll send a full set of paperback editions to an underground library)

[southendpress-blog]

Film screening (Boston, Thurs 2/23/12): 3000 Years and Life

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series @Occupy_Boston is planning our second film and discussion in the "Occupy Film" series. The film is called 3000 Years and Life, and focuses on the 1973 prisoner rebellion at Walpole. This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by an open community discussion. We'll also be joined by prison abolitionist and author Jamie Bissonette (When the Prisoners Ran Walpole: A True Story in the Movement for Prison Abolition) and Bobby Dellelo, one of the leaders of the prisoners' union during the Walpole rebellion. Should be great!

  Info:

7:30 PM, Thursday Feb 23rd

at the Community Church of Boston

565 Boylston Street #2

  http://zinnlectures.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/occupy-film-series-to-start/

[southendpress-blog]

On Friday, February 17, 2012, at noon, The Abriendo Brecha Activist Scholarship Conference opens with a keynote address by Frank B. Wilderson III, award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. Following Dr. Wilderson's keynote, entitled “The Vengeance of Vertigo: Aphasia and Abjection in the Political Trials of Black Insurgents,” an activist research panel including scholars from The University of Texas at Austin will convene from 2-4 p.m. Location: John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, ISESE Gallery (JES A230)

[southendpress-blog]

As Contraceptives Rule Enters GOP Race, Will Reproductive Rights Affect 2012 Election?

Obama’s new rule for health insurance plans to include free birth control methods and the recent Komen controversy both highlight the public concern about low-income women’s access to services. Loretta Ross of SisterSong, and coauthor of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, explains, “Let's not lose sight that there are women being damaged by this political football men are making of our lives.”

(Source: Democracy Now!, 2/8/12)

[southendpress-blog]

As Contraceptives Rule Enters GOP Race, Will Reproductive Rights Affect 2012 Election?

Obama’s new rule for health insurance plans to include free birth control methods and the recent Komen controversy both highlight the public concern about low-income women’s access to services. Loretta Ross of SisterSong, and coauthor of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, explains, “Let's not lose sight that there are women being damaged by this political football men are making of our lives.”

(Source: Democracy Now!, 2/8/12)