Thanks to everyone that came out for the first session of the Gathering Utopias reading group! Return or join us for the first time Friday Oct 4th when we will be discussing José Esteban Muñoz’s “The Future is in the Present” from Cruising Utopias and Samuel R. Delany’s The Motion of Light in Water sections 17.36 - 17.5.
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These readings are part of Julie & Elizabeth’s Anti-Capitalist Concert Series, which programs music and conversation to envision an anti-capitalist future. In conjunction with the upcoming Gathering Utopias concerts, we have planned a three-week reading group on the utopian imaginary⁣
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We previously read Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” and Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s “Evidence” from Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. The last meeting is October 11 with readings TBA. All events at The Word Is Change on 368 Tompkins Ave. Attend one or all!