EAFB 2020 - Critic and Self Critic: What, Why and How. Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2020-07-18 | “Revolution happens first in human relationships.”From years of revolutionary struggle, the Kurdish Freedom Movement has found that change begins in our personalities and our communities. A process has been developed from practical experience for collectively developing ourselves and each other as revolutionaries. What can we learn from these practices of critic and self critic? This workshop is given by an internationalist from Scotland who has been in Rojava working with the women’s movement for over a year. It will look at critic and self critic as tools and inspiration for how we can reshape how we relate to and care for each other, and mutually develop.
Class war & class whores Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2021-06-15 | Join Scot-pep, a charity advocating for the rights and safety of people who sell sex in Scotland, for an introduction to the struggle for sex workers rights in the context of class, borders and the pandemic. We'll also take a look at the global movement for decriminalisation from a labour rights and harm reduction perspective and discuss the class implications of abolitionist (not the good kind) resistance to decriminalisation. scot-pep.org.uk
There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World As Jewish Anarchists Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2021-05-31 | In celebration of the release of There Is Nothing So Whole As a Broken Heart (AK Press, 2021), an anthology filled with contemporary essays, art, and poetry by Jewish anarchists, join editor Cindy Milstein, contributor Alice Ross, and Misha and Joe from the Pink Peacock as they explore the role of queer+trans+feminist Jewish anarchism in helping to mend the world. This event is open to anyone interested in learning more about the beauty of the Jewish anarchist tradition and its present-day manifestations, including in so-called Scotland. And besides good conversation, there'll likely be a rebellious ritual and song or two.Through stories at once poetic and poignant, There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart offers a powerful elixir for all who rebel against systemic violence and injustice. The contemporary renewal of Jewish anarchism draws on a history of fighting antisemitism, enslavement, displacement, white supremacy, and genocide as well as embracing ancestral resistance, strength, imagination, and humor--all qualities, and wisdom, sorely needed today.You can get a copy of the book by visiting the AK Press website or your fav rad/indie bookstore: akpress.org/thereisnothingsowhole.htmlCindy Lev-B Milstein (they/he) is a diasporic queer jewish anarchist who loves shaping and sharing magical spaces with others, being a doula for books and grief, and journeying through the messy beauty of life by practicing as much solidarity, care, and love as possible.Alice Ross (she or they) (yiddish: איידל, Aydel), an anarchist feminist Jew, is a linguist, reader, and maker in Edinburgh. She draws strength and hope from mutual aid work, holding space for sincerity, and nurturing connections - between people, with nature, with art, and with the universe.Morgan and Joe happily throw themselves into Pink Peacock, a queer, Yiddish, pay-what-you-can cafe in Glasgow’s southside welcoming everyone (except cops and terms). For more on Pink Peacock, see https://pinkpeacock.gay/.
Revolutionary Mothering Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2021-05-31 | Join Mia'a Williams and Helen Charman to discuss Mia's latest book This is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century (available from PM Press, or you favourite indie bookstore - pmpress.org.uk/product/this-is-how-we-survive ). This is a story about mothers who are doing the work of deep social transformation by creating the networks of care that sustain movements and revolutions.Helen Charman is a writer and academic based in Glasgow. Her first book, Mother State—a political history of motherhood—is forthcoming from Allen Lane. Her poetry pamphlet Daddy Poem was shortlisted for the 2019 Ivan Juritz Prize; her latest, In the Pleasure Dairy, was published by Sad Press in 2020. She teaches English Literature at Durham University, and is an associate member of staff at Camberwell College of Arts and the Glasgow School of Art. She is resident commissioning editor at MAP magazine.Mai'a Williams is a writer and artist, residing in Minneapolis and rural Minnesota. It was their living and working with Egyptian, Palestinian, Congolese, and Central American indigenous mothers in resistance communities, that inspired their life-giving work and art-making practices. They are currently co-creating healing and mutual aid networks in Minneapolis in the midst of a pandemic and a movement for abolition. They are the co-editor of the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines and the author of the memoir, This is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century.
Police everywhere, Justice nowhere Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2021-05-31 | Gata Negra is an anarcha-feminist collective born in Valencia/Spain with feisty collaborators from around the world. They make working-class based zines, accessible to all people, not just for activists and 'those in the know'. Their first issue 'Why A.C.A.B.? - 'Police everywhere, Justice nowhere' speaks about police brutality against working class communities, the abusive treatment of women by cops, the state and it's bully-boys and why anarchist-feminism requires the disintegration of the institution of state policing.Gata Negra will be chairing a Q&A-discussion with Ruth Kinna and Princess Rivulet, facilitated by Emily J Chiller-Kok. They will discuss these matters, as well as how grass-roots community intervention, women's solidarity and radical mutual aid groups could provide an alternative to A.C.A.B.You can download free all the Gata Negra publications on their website.Or follow them on facebook & instagramEmily is an anarcha-feminist and syndicalist from southwestern Montana, she is currently involved in organizing a local IWW branch and community mutual aid projectsRuth Kinna is a member of the Anarchism Research Group at Loughborough University. She is the author of Great Anarchists series published by Dog Section Press and writes for Gata Negra and Dope.
Introduction to Anarcho-Syndicalism Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2021-05-31 | Anarcho-syndicalism is often misunderstood even by many anarchists. A member of the Solidarity Federation will give a basic introduction to the method and ideas of anarcho-syndicalism and it's relevance in the 21st century.
Building Free Life: The Theology of Democratic Modernity Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2021-05-31 | My talk will be based on the book Building Free Life: Dialogues with Abdullah Öcalan. I will read sections from it and explain my argument there which proposes that Abdullah Öcalan develops a decolonial metaphysic of the human, freedom and truth that gives meaning and orientation to the freedom struggle of the Kurds. This metaphysics challenges the metaphysics of capitalist modernity in fundamental ways and replaces its constitutive institutions family, nation and property with friendship, mobility and gift giving.I received my Ph.D. in 2005 from the sociology department at Indiana University Bloomington. Between 2005 and 2018, I worked as an Assistant Professor at Boğaziçi University, Department of Sociology. Between 2018 and 2020 I was affiliated with the Transregionale Studien in Berlin as an Academy in Exile and IIE-Scholar Rescue Fund fellow. Currently, I am receiving a fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation Patrimonies program. My work concerns political imaginaries, gendered subjectivities and state violence in Kurdistan. My most recent articles appeared in the journals South Atlantic Quarterly, History of the Present and Differences. I also worked as a columnist in the journal Nokta and the newspaper Özgür Gündem and my opinion pieces appeared in venues such as Bianet, T24, Roar Magazine and Jadaliyya. I am a member of Women for Peace and Academics for Peace. I am currently finishing my first book manuscript with the working title Mother, Politician and Guerilla: The Emergence of A New Political Cosmology in Kurdistan Through Women's Bodies and Speech.Personal Website: www.nazanustundag.com
Decolonising Environmentalism Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2021-05-31 | The systems which uphold climate change are deeply embedded in global capitalism, a system born out of colonialism, and which continues to depend on colonialism.To create the systemic changes we need to stop climate change, we need to challenge colonialism and colonial thinking.Climate justice means racial justice, land justice and ending colonialism, ideologically and materially.Join Nish Doshi and Tonny Nowshin to talk about the need for, and ways to decolonise environmentalism. How can we challenge the culture and worldview that sees everything as a resource, to be developed or protected, instead of viewing the planet as kin. What are the dangers of reactionary ecological thinking within our movement, from population Malthusians and ecofascism to racism by ostensible allies. What are the key links between enclosure, dispossession, colonialism, and climate change, that persist to today. Whose stories get told? Who gets to tell them? And who sets the priorities and strategy for our movement?
Resisting the G7 Summit Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2021-05-31 | A discussion and workshop with the Anarchist Federation and Resist G7 Coalition where they will discuss how and why people are coming together to oppose the G7 Summit being held over a weekend in June.
Change Everything: Organising for Prison Abolition Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2021-05-30 | Featuring Jodie Beck from Abolitionist Futures, Jamal from No More Exclusions, and Liat Ben-Moshe, author of 'Decarcerating Disability.'No More Exclusionsnomoreexclusions.comtwitter.com/nexclusions?s=21Jamal Khantwitter.com/1jamalkhan?s=21Transform Harmtransformharm.org (website by Mariame Kaba)- lots of resources on transformative justice and abolitionLiat Ben-Mosheliatbenmoshe.com/resourcesPlease do check out Our Empty Chair @ www.twitter.com/OurEmptyChair - website coming soon!Read No More Exclusions Report On School Exclusions During The Pandemic & Support Our Moratorium: nomoreexclusions.com/moratoriumyoutu.be/gb-YNVmFZZE
Talk Like a Man: Afrofuturist SF&F with Nisi Shawl Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2021-05-30 | Nisi Shawl will read an extract from her new collection of previously uncollected stories Talk like a Man (available from PM Press pmpress.org.uk/product/talk-like-a-man/). Followed by a Q&A with Robert Kiely.A cutting-edge Afrofuturist icon whose politically charged fiction is in the grand feminist tradition of Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, and Suzie McKee Charnas.“Nisi Shawl tells stories as if they have just awakened from a vivid and terrifying dream, and they’re intent on relating its details.” —Seattle TimesNisi Shawl, Black author of PM Press's Talk Like a Man, also wrote the 2016 Nebula Award finalist Everfair, an alternate history of a fictional Utopia in the Belgian Congo. Shawl edited the anthology New Suns: Speculative Fiction by People of Color, winner of multiple awards including the Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Brave New Words awards. In 1999 they cofounded the representation-in-speculative-fiction-focused nonprofit Carl Brandon Society, and in 2005 they cowrote Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, now a standard text on inclusivity. For over twenty years they've served on the board of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. They live in Seattle and take frequent walks with their cat.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Robert Kiely is the author of simmering of a declarative void (2020) and Incomparable Poetry, an essay on the financial crisis of 2007-8 and Irish literature (2020). He was Poet in Residence at Uni. of Surrey from 2019-21.
Organizing in Covid: A Conversation with MATE, IWW and Living Rent Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2021-05-30 | Join members of Living Rent and organizers from Mutual Aid Trans Edinburgh (MATE) and IWW Scotland as they discuss some of the challenges, successes, and lessons from over a year of organising (tenants, mutual aid, workplaces..) under covid. What have struggles looked like in the (not mutually exclusive) communities they work in? What do they want to carry forward from this time, and what do they want to leave behind?- Living Rent is a mass-membership organisation of low- and middle-income renters, fighting together to win concrete improvements to our daily lives and to put political and economic power back where it belongs – in the hands of ordinary people. In short, we are a union.- MATE (Mutual Aid Trans Edinburgh) was set up during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide direct support by and for trans and queer people in Edinburgh. We are focused on trans- and queer-specific support needs, and also to support people who are isolated from their local communities- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Scotland is formed of two branches, Clydeside and Edinburgh. The IWW is a union that believes in 3 key principles: Democracy, Solidarity and Direct Action. We build our strength through organising our fellow workers to fight against the bosses.
Words With Bite: Extra Teeth Issue three Showcase Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2021-05-30 | The new Extra Teeth is finally here! Join us for an exclusive showcase launch event to bring the latest magazine into the world, featuring writers from Issue Three, including Helen McClory, Okala Elesia, and Anahit Behrooz, and chat from co-founders Jules Danskin and Heather Parry.
Travellers Panel Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2021-05-30 | The British state has stolen common land and used legislation to target Traveller communities for hundreds of years, and in the light of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, this panel will discuss discrimination against Traveller communities, the beauty of nomadic life, and the battle for the right to exist with speakers from Travellers Against Fascism and No Fixed Abode Travellers Collective and Supporters.
Gendered Dimensions of a Just Transition Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2021-05-29 | This year international climate talks come to Scotland, and there are likely to be many proposals for transitioning to sustainable economy. But what does a "just" transition look like? And how do we ensure it takes account of gendered inequalities and impacts?Nonhlanhla Makuyana is an organiser, educator and multidisciplinary artist. They are a cofounder of Decolonising Economics where they work to build a new economy movement rooted in racial justice principles and decolonial struggle.Niamh McNulty is a co-founder of Climate Camp Scotland where they work to build anti-oppressive group practices. They study Sustainable Development with Politics and International Relations.
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Ecology and the Womens Revolution in Rojava Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2020-08-02 | Ecological sustainability and women's liberation are two of the 'pillars' of the Rojava Revolution. In this talk we'll explore how they are connected in the analysis and practice of the revolution, and try to make connections with our struggles in the UK. Before spending a year in North East Syria working with the movement driving the Rojava Revolution, Viyan was active in feminist and environmental struggles in the UK for over a decade.
Womens Struggles Across the World: Building Power and Community Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2020-07-25 | Members of International Women's Day Edinburgh Sophia and Viki host an event in conversation with Mariana Bracho, who speaks about women who self-organise in Mexico and specifically about the group Las Patronas and their work with Central American refugees, as well as Rubi R. (from London Mexico solidarity) who speaks about the struggle of the Zapatista women against capitalism and patriarchy. Followed by a recorded Q&A.IWDE are a feminist grassroots group, you can find out more about them and contact them at:E-mail: iwomende@gmail.comFacebook: facebook.com/IWDEdinburghTwitter: twitter.com/iwday_edinburghAdditional Resources:The talk includes a short clip from Adrift in the Circuits of Women's Precarious Lives. Full video available here: youtube.com/watch?v=WCEsKJrKH9cRuby’s blog post of her talk: londonmexicosolidarity.wordpress.com/2020/07/18/the-struggle-of-zapatista-women-against-capitalism-and-patriarchy/?fbclid=IwAR2nEOlZcs1huLkiptPeWgSRDl16QA2VxgsTBVOaIT-w74AC5KZMa4bbOLoLlévate mis amores (trailor for a film about Las Patronas) youtube.com/watch?v=SDk9q-7s5aUhttp://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2018/03/26/words-of-the-zapatista-women-at-the-closing-ceremony-of-the-first-international-gathering-of-politics-art-sport-and-culture-for-women-in-struggle-in-the-zapatista-caracol-of-the-tzotz-choj-zone/komun-academy.com/2020/04/22/founders-of-radical-democracy-experiences-of-women-liberation-movementswomendefendrojava.net/en/2019/12/27/message-from-rojava-womens-movement-to-zapatista-womens-gatheringhttp://www.marchemondiale.ch/index.php/fr/actions-campagnes/femmes-migration-refuge/519-pour-une-europe-ouverte-solidaire-egalitaire-et-feministe-2
Queer and Trans Mutual Aid for Survival and Mobilization Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2020-07-18 | In this session, Nat Raha and Dean Spade will be talking about queer and trans mutual aid strategies--why they are so important to queer and trans survival, how they build our resistance movements, their histories, their current development in the context of global pandemic and anti-police uprising, and more.
Accessible Activism: What, Why and How Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2020-07-18 | A pre-recorded talk addressing physical, neurological, socio-cultural and economic aspects of accessibility in the context of activism. Offers practical suggestions how to make activist groups and events more inclusive. Author Bio: Ekaterina Anguelova is a Bulgarian social researcher and support worker based in Aberdeen. Her current work examines the institutional uptake of the Neurodiversity paradigm and the role autistic activists play in shaping regional policy.
The Harms of Hate against Gypsies and Travellers Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2020-07-18 | This presentation will recount the harms of hate experienced by Gypsies and Travellers in the UK in contemporary society. In doing it will discuss how hate permeates all aspects of Gypsies’ and Travellers’ lives. The presentation will identify the hate crimes, incidents, and speech that Gypsies and Travellers are subject to. It will then go on to explore how hate against Gypsies and Travellers occurs as discrimination, social exclusion and criminalisation and how that hate is embedded within the language and practice of neoliberal capitalism. The presentation will argue the hate experienced by Gypsies and Travellers can only be fully recognised through an analysis of the neoliberal capitalist context within which it occurs and the harmful subjective experience it engenders.
Perspectives on Healthcare in Rojava Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2020-07-18 | Part of the Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2020.edinburghafb.orgHeval Merrivan is the doctor at Jinwar (the women's village)Heval Gûneş is a combat medic, currently based in Jinwar.Şevger is Scottish nurse who is working with the local health structures in Rojava.The questions they have been asked to consider are:How are the principles of women's liberation, ecology and democratic confederalism being integrated with health in Rojava?In Europe, a good healthcare system is seen as one of the plus points of having a centralised state. How does a non-state healthcare model look in Rojava?There has been outrage in the UK recently over how the healthcare system ignored women suffering from vaginal meshes and certain drugs. Is care women-centered in Rojava and if so how?What are the main challenges you face in healthcare in Rojava?What does healthcare look like on the front lines?How has COVID-19 been in Rojava and has the response differed from that of a capitalist state?Does healthcare in Rojava differ from regime controlled parts of Syria?Does natural medicine and physiotherapy play much of a role in health in Rojava?What are the future plans for health in Rojava?How can people outside Rojava best support health projects or specifically women's movement projects?
EAFB Benefit Gig! Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair 2020-07-17 | Donate here: bit.ly/38TG22U. Bookfair: edinburghafb.org/timetable2020Benefit gig raising funds for MORE - Migrants Organising for Rights & Empowerment, Unity Centre and Maslows Community Shop - Govan. They provide phone top ups and shopping to the Asylum seeking and refugee community in Glasgow.Streamed live to EAFB Facebook page and YouTube channel from 7.30pm UK time (GMT+1)Line up:EFA SUPERTRAMPwww.efasupertramp.co.ukafiach.bandcamp.comREBECCA RADICAL facebook.com/pg/RebeccaRadicalrebeccaradical.bandcamp.comFRANZ NICOLAYhttp://franznicolay.comhttp://franznicolay.bandcamp.comPERKIEperkie.bandcamp.comwww.youtube.com/flocktheborder
