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Healer. Protector. Scholar Activist. Community Organizer. Turnt Up for Freedom.
These five principles of leadership guide girls and gender expansive youth towards uniting their communities. “Turn Up for Freedom” by E Morales-Williams is out now!
It’s always and ❤️🔥
All are invited to join a reading circle for discussion of "For Antifascist Futures," hosted by . By focusing on the long history of Black and Brown antifascist resistance that has been overlooked in both recent conversations about racial justice as well as antifascist resistance, the essays, interviews, and documents included in "For Antifascist Futures" make clear how racialized and colonized peoples have been at the forefront of theorizing and dismantling fascism, white supremacy, and other modes of authoritarian rule. A powerful toolbox for our struggles, the book offers a range of anticolonial, Indigenous, and Black Radical traditions for our reflection and practice.
The November 15th conversation will be led by Charisse Burden-Stelly (), author of "Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States" forthcoming in November.
Register for the reading circle via the link in our bio, and all who register will receive a 25% discount code for the book. See you there!
We’re so glad you enjoyed “Sana, Sana,” Rebecca, and thank you for making it your staff pick at ! Comrades in Ohio, stop by Columbus’s Short North district to pick up a copy.
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Rebecca's staff pick is Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice, edited by David Luis Glisch-Sánchez and Nic Rodriguez-Villafañe.
Rebecca wrote her recommendation for this book, saying that the book is "a radical reminder that our wounds are legitimate and our healing is deserved."
Check out Sana Sana next time you're in the store!
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"[This book] is a reminder to myself that to turn up for freedom is indeed tough, at times messy, and so worthwhile. Let’s get free." E Morales-Williams writes in the beginning of "Turn Up For Freedom."
Get to know the author, educator, abolitionist, and organizer in their own words. In these excerpts from their forthcoming book, equal parts memoir, storytelling, and political education, Morales-Williams shares their motivation to write and their hopes for their readers.
"Turn Up For Freedom" is out September 26th! Important reading for young people, educators, and movement workers alike, preorder your copy via the link in our bio ✨
Long weekend plans?
With a deep commitment to prison abolition and Black feminism, Joy James analyzes our current political situation and theorizes with an eye towards revolution. James and Kalonji Jama Changa co-authored a phenomenal series for “Inquest,” which illuminates the long and ongoing history of US domestic colonialism and slavery.
Read the articles via the link in our bio, and pre-order James’s forthcoming title, “New Bones Abolition,” which continues to build upon this work.
Thank you to everyone who came out to be in conversation with Britney Daniels (***rnurse) and Dr. David Johns () of last night at Politics and Prose Bookstore in DC! If you haven’t yet grabbed a copy of “Journal of a Black Q***r Nurse” and want to join the discussion, head to the link in our bio! 🌈
We’re grateful to Dr. David Johns for lending his voice and Politics and Prose for opening their space for this event.
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Tomorrow! Britney Daniels joins Dr. David Johns , Executive Director of at Politics and Prose in Washington DC .
Don’t miss the conversation about Britney’s past five years working as an emergency room nurse who is also a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed le***an from a working-class background and what her experiences show about our healthcare system.
“Go feel.”
Co-editor and contributor, Nic Rodriguez-Villafañe (), invokes Toni Cade Bambara in their poem “A Salt Eaters Litany” in “Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice.” Order your copy and feel your feelings 🕯️ Link in bio!
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Women in Translation Month, observed each August, highlights the contributions of women writers and translators amidst a market where less than 31% of books translated into English are written by women. With a commitment to internationalism and decolonial feminisms, we are proud to have published the first English translations of incredible work by scholar-organizers Amaia Pérez Orozco, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Monica Chilese, and the collective Otras Negras … y ¡Feministas!
Activists and feminist authors in their own right, Liz Mason-Deese and Silvia Federici translated these works with rigor and care. We’ll share more titles here throughout the month. Browse our website (link in bio) to view all of these titles!
Pictured: THE FEMINIST SUBVERSION OF THE ECONOMY: CONTRIBUTIONS FOR LIFE AGAINST CAPITAL by Amaia Pérez Orozco, Translated by Liz Mason-Deese
"Decolonize Conservation" looks to indigenous sovereignty for the most effective and just way to fight against biodiversity loss and climate change. Our friends at include this title in their featured collection this month to ask, "How can we think about and (re)construct the built, cultural, and social environment? How can cities be designed, modified, and rehabilitated in a context of climate emergency and territorial restitution?" Visit CCA to pick up a copy, in-person or online, and find more information about the collection of frontline essays via the link in our bio.
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July is month, and we are grateful to Seba at for reviewing a title that gives us tools for witnessing each others’ wholeness, caring collectively, and moving towards liberation together. Read the review below!
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• Book Review: Take Care of Yourself 📖 •
"If suffering is a very solitary and isolating experience, healing, transformation, and ascension are based on connection, unity, and sharing. I believe in the potential of traumatized individuals and communities to carve out pathways to a deeper understanding of the human experience and spiritual evolution." —Sundus Abdul Hadi
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Take Care of Yourself was introduced to me at a time when I didn't know I needed to take care of myself. And it couldn't have come at a better moment!
Care, community and curation are the top three themes explored throughout the book. The author starts off with her own experience with suffering and recovery and proceeds to detail the curation of her gallery, which emphasized the themes of trauma, self-care, healing, and community.
What are the tools available for a community to heal together? Or for its members to individually take care of themselves after traumatic events? And where does art fit in all this? Take Care of Yourself provides the answers.
The author delves into the process of curating a creative space—from ideation to implementation—and maintains that art spaces can be turned into safe healing spaces. Sundus Abdul Hadi's curation of her own exhibition was one approach to uphold that concept. The exhibition brought together into one space a wide selection of artwork by artists from different backgrounds and with different stories and journeys towards healing.
I wish I had known about the gallery and been a part of such an experience that we lack but are in dire need of in this day and age. Yet, the book does a great job at walking the reader through it and reporting on the aftermath.
If you are into arts and expressive art modalities, I highly recommend Take Care of Yourself!
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Tonight at 7pm ET, celebrate the launch of “Sana, Sana” with the co-editors of the anthology and readings from contributors. Get the Zoom link in our bio!
TONIGHT! Join Conor Tomás Reed at in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn to discuss the legacies of Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde and ongoing struggles at CUNY. Learn more about “New York Liberation School” via the link in our bio ❤️🔥
“The section begins to gain momentum ending in nothing less than a poetic manifesto with a very clear call to action. Isaacson writes, ‘The most important weapons offered in this book have nothing to do with watching movies. Rather, they are weapons of defence against the gas-lighting forces that would frame our most beautiful gestures as monstrous’ (Isaacson, p. 186),” Holly Willis writes of Johanna Isaacson’s “Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror” for .
Britney Daniels writes in the introduction to her memoir, "I want the patients I've helped to know they are seen, loved, and understood. I want medical professionals I've worked with to reflect on the care they provide to people every day and to want to do better. I want everyone who has ever cared about anyone to know that they matter, and that their existence is recognized and valued.
This is not a book for nurses.
This is a book for everyone.
This is a book for you."
Order your copy via the link in our bio ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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Walking into work and being greeted by a coworker holding my book for me to sign it is one of the best feelings.
I didn’t know it until today.
I can’t thank everyone enough for the support and love that’s been shown to me.
***rnurse represents my absolute most public vulnerable experience. My community is making me feel so safe.
Thank you for that.
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Eagerly looking forward to reading Everything for Everyone
In the 1960s and ’70s, Toni Cade Bambara, Samuel Delany, David Henderson, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Guillermo Morales, Adrienne Rich, and Assata Shakur all studied and taught at CUNY.
Conor ‘Coco’ Tomás Reed, a cofounding participant in Free CUNY (), Rank and File Action (), and Reclaim the Commons (), and a member of CUNY for Abortion Rights (), brings this archive to life to ask timely questions about study and movement between the classroom and the streets.
Learn more and preorder your copy via the link in our bio 📚
The contributors of expose the brutal realities of colonial, racist conservation which does nothing to address the real causes of environmental destruction, (because that would mean cutting into profits!). Instead, this chorus of voices from the frontlines offers indigenous practices that are the most effective and just way to fight climate change.
Drop us your thoughts on the essays in the comments--how do you fight for our climate action that honors indigenous wisdom and upholds self-governance?
Tag us in passages of the text that are meaningful to you. Still need to grab a copy? Head to the link in our bio!
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Happy to the editors and contributors of ! Join the movement—one already working—towards the most effective and just way to fight against biodiversity loss and climate change.
Order your copy via the link in our bio 🌱
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In Africa and Asia, governments and NGOs are stealing vast areas of land from tribal peoples and local communities under the false claim that this is necessary for conservation. But evidence shows that indigenous people understand and manage their environment–where 80% of the globe’s biodiversity exists–better than anyone else.
Hear from activists at the heart of the fight against climate change who present a different, decolonial vision for the future of our planet. Preorder , out on April 25th, and join us in at the CUNY Graduate Center this Friday, April 14th for “Our Land! Our Nature!: A Congress to Decolonize Conservation.”
Preorder the book: https://bit.ly/3UfAest
Attend the conference in-person: https://bit.ly/3MrzDSv
Attend the conference virtually: https://bit.ly/3MpZHgI
Join us next Friday, April 14th at the CUNY Graduate Center (or attend virtually!) to hear from “Decolonize Conservation” editors Fiore Longo & Ashley Dawson () and contributors Dina Gilio Whitaker (), Mordecai Ogada, & Simon Counsell. Registration is free, link in our bio!
Join us next Friday, April 14th at the CUNY Graduate Center (or attend virtually!) to hear from “Decolonize Conservation” editors Fiore Longo & Ashley Dawson, and contributors Dina Gilio Whitaker, Mordecai Ogada, & Simon Counsell. Registration is free!
To attend in-person: https://bit.ly/3MrzDSv
To attend virtually: https://bit.ly/3MpZHgI
With Indigenous Peoples and their rights at its center, exposes the brutal and deadly realities of colonial and racist conservation for people around the world. The authors present an alternative vision—one already working—of the most effective and just way to fight against biodiversity loss and climate change.
Publishing on April 25th, pre-order your copy now at through the link in our bio 🌿
With Indigenous Peoples and their rights at its center, exposes the brutal and deadly realities of colonial and racist conservation for people around the world. The authors present an alternative vision—one already working—of the most effective and just way to fight against biodiversity loss and climate change.
Publishing on April 25th, pre-order your copy now at https://bit.ly/3UfAest 🌿
Our rad friends at Pilsen Community Books in Chicago are hosting Madeline Lane-McKinley in convesation with comedian Dave Maher on Comedy Against Work.
Work is a joke! Come out on Friday and laugh at it. More info at PCB: https://bit.ly/3lePjgF
Our friends at the Bureau of General Services—Q***r Division are hosting Madeline Lane-McKinely and M.E. O’Brien in conversation on Comedy Against Work and related utopias/dystopias.
Seating is first come, first served.Also live-streaming at https://bit.ly/3yC07bO
Join us Friday, April 14th at the CUNY Graduate Center (and online!) for “Our Land! Our Nature!”—a day-long conference on and a celebration of the official launch of “Decolonize Conservation: Global Voices for Indigenous Self-determination, Land, and a World in Common,'' out April 25th!
The powerful collection of voices from the groundbreaking “Our Land, Our Nature” congress takes us to the heart of the climate justice movement and the struggle for life and land across the globe, with Indigenous Peoples and their rights at its center. Join us for a day of education, strategy, and celebration followed by a day of action on April 15th!
Registration links in bio!
For International Women's Day, Johanna Isaacson chats with "Where's My Jetpack?!" postcast cohost Ani White about horror feminism and the themes of her recent book, Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror.
More info about the podcast at https://bit.ly/3JpGFVN
From abolition to care work, anticapitalist and antiracist feminist thought, vision and action continue to lead the way in the fight for human liberation.
Celebrate the revolutionary spirit of International Working Women’s Day this year by engaging with some of today’s most brilliant feminist thinkers and movement leaders.
Use code IWWDAY23 to enjoy 25% off a selection of our most recent and forthcoming feminist titles by revolutionaries at the forefront of today’s movements.
Discount valid through March 31st.
Last call to submit an application to come work with us!
Common Notions Press is seeking two individuals passionate about books and radical politics with experience in independent publishing to join our Sales, Marketing, and Publicity Team!
We're a small worker-run press (job comes with all the virtues of being part of a self-organized collective!) and the positions are remote and part-time (15–20 hours per week, $20 an hour) with the option to work onsite in Brooklyn or Philadelphia, if desired.
Application deadline is THIS FRIDAY, March 3rd.Bring your skills and talent to the Common Notions team and help bring the vibrant and inspiring ideas of our authors to people around the world!
To apply, please submit a CV and cover letter to: [email protected] with the subject line: Sales and Distribution Coordinator OR Marketing and Promotions Associate position - First Name + Last Name.
Common Notions is committed to centering and uplifting marginalized communities in every aspect of our work. People of color, women, LGBTQIA+ people, and people from other marginalized communities are strongly encouraged to apply.
We’re hiring! Common Notions Press is seeking two individuals passionate about books and radical politics with experience in independent publishing to join our Sales, Marketing, and Publicity Team! Both positions are part-time (15–20 hours per week), fully remote contract positions with the option to work onsite in Brooklyn or Philadelphia, if desired.
Bring your skills and talent to the Common Notions team and help bring the vibrant and inspiring ideas of our authors to people around the world!
To apply, please submit a CV and cover letter to: [email protected] with the subject line: Sales and Distribution Coordinator OR Marketing and Promotions Associate position - First Name + Last Name. Application deadline is March 3rd, 2023.
Common Notions is committed to centering and uplifting marginalized communities in every aspect of our work. People of color, women, LGBTQIA+ people, and people from other marginalized communities are strongly encouraged to apply.
Four weeks ‘till pub date for this incredible title! Support independent radical publishing and abolitionist movement work by pre-ordering your copy and enjoy 20% off!
“SPIRITUALITY AND ABOLITION is an invaluable collective contribution to thinking abolitionist theology and spiritual praxis, an open invitation to an abolitionist struggle being waged in the earthly and also the immaterial and spiritual realm, demystifying the ways in which colonialism and anti-Blackness shape carceral religiosity and also calling forth and evoking liberationist models of spirituality. Activists, spiritual workers, clergy, and academics in religious and Black and Indigenous and feminist, q***r and trans studies as well will greatly benefit from this indispensable anthology.” —Che Gosset, Racial Justice Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia Law School and Visiting Fellow, Animal Law and Policy Center, Harvard Law School
Edited by Ashon Crawley and Roberto Sirvent, with the Abolition Collective
Out next month, February 14, 2023.
Happy pub day to this audacious and provocative book about futures beyond capitalist urbanization. The Commonist Horizon situates everyday organizing and resistance in the cities we live in and points toward a common and commonist path for a revolutionary alternative to capital’s organization of our lived environment and relations.
Emerging from a process of thinking together, The Commonist Horizon features five interventions by movement thinkers. Beginning in the post-Soviet city of Vilnius, the dialogical process stretches outward to two other formerly state-socialist countries, and then beyond. Speaking from their experiences in social movement formations, the authors take up the lived experience of building what might be called urban commons, offering insights on the conceptual and political potentials and limitations of this terminology and associated practices.
Available in rebellious bookshops and direct from our website: https://bit.ly/3ilZS0d
Virtual book talk and discussion: Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2032-2052
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 | 6:30pm - 7:30pm E.T. via Zoom
Join us for a look at this acclaimed work of speculative fiction, where the authors invite us 50 years into the future, to envision how we may survive and thrive through the collapse of neoliberalism, capitalism and patriarchy. New York City is the main stage, and our younger generations become the heroes of tomorrow as we learn through their lived experiences.
This virtual talk features authors Eman Abdelhadi and M.E. O'Brien, moderated by Rebecca Lurie, director of the Community & Worker Ownership Project at .
REGISTER: https://bit.ly/3WZYr6B
Check out this fire podcast episode of Comedian Dave Maher’s This is Your Afterlife with Madeline Lane-McKinley. We need good comedy criticism, and Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book, Comedy Against Work, assesses comedy not just as an art form but as a way of envisioning utopia.
https://bit.ly/3EVCizv
Happy pub day to Madeline Lane-McKinley and congrats on this gorgeous book! Comedy Against Work gives us the gift of seeing how laughter—“the most revolutionary emotion”—can be used to transform our conditions and take the initiative in the class struggle against work and bosses. Once you read it, you won't laugh the same!
On sale today in fine bookstores and direct on our website.
https://bit.ly/3ABy6T8
Capitalism and patriarchy create monsters—but inside the darkness there lurks a strange utopia.
Common Notions is excited to announce the release of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror by cultural critic Johanna Isaacson.
What happens when your smile is no longer yours? Films like Hereditary and The Babadook show women coming apart at the seams as the promises of both the family and waged work fail them. In Get Out, we see how poor women and women of color perform the invisible labor that makes society run while experiencing domestic work as a kind of possession. In "coming of rage" films such as Assassination Nation and Teeth,we see the ways social reproduction leads to a futureless horizon. Robbed of their dreams but not their power to resist, these heroines emerge as the monsters and avengers we need.
In Stepford Daughters, Johanna Isaacson explores an emerging wave of horror films that get why class horror and gender horror must be understood together. In doing so, Isaacson makes the case that this often-maligned genre is in fact a place where oppressed people can understand, navigate and confront an increasingly ugly and horrifying world.
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A dialogue with Jack Z. Bratich and Leopoldina Fortunati on feminist antifascism, which emphasizes social reproduction as a key node of a micro-antifascism capable of confronting and dismantling fascism’s latent energies. Exploring themes from Jack Z. Bratich’s recent book, On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death, the conversation will examine the cultural dimensions of patriarchy, white supremacy, and nationalism, and why feminist antifascism is needed in order to see how microfascism is part of every fight we have to confront in order to live.
Josh MacPhee’s AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL RECORD LABELS is available two weeks from today! https://bit.ly/30lvLrV
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