Thanks to everyone that came out for the first two sessions of the Gathering Utopias reading group! Return or join us for the first time Friday Oct 11th at 7pm when we will be discussing N.K. Jemisin’s “The Ones Who Stay and Fight” from How Long ‘til Black Future Month and Pinko’s “Analyzing the Limits of Accountability” from After Accountability.
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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⁣. For more information visit Art Workers Inquiry
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We previously read for session one: 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 and for session two: 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. All events at The Word Is Change on 368 Tompkins Ave. Attend one or all!