This Week
Live, Laugh, Love, Liberation
❤︎ If you find yourself with wide open time this Valentine’s Day weekend, might I humbly suggest that your schedule could look like this : ❤︎
Thursday, Feb. 12th ~ Demo against the Brooklyn Jail
Friday, Feb. 13th ~ Flash Day at Flower World with Haitham Haddad, Nassim Dayoub, Pony, and myself. I still have openings- email if you want to come in!
Dinner at Honey’s ~ a special and romantic small-bite menu served by Stargame, a duo of chefs Ag and Kaur — @ star_enemy and @tinygametinyreality
Saturday, Feb. 14th ~ Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s Wayward Sentences workshop at the Free Black Women’s Library.
Fundraiser reading and raffle featuring a stacked lineup of friends! 7pm at the Center’s The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, 208 W. 13th St. Suite 210.
I’ll be reading a piece from my friend Tone as well as new work of mine, a speculative retelling of a late 1800s prison uprising in Walla Walla, Washington, where rebels seized control of a clay train delivering supplies to the prison’s brickyard. Bring your lover, your movement crush, your romantic enemy :)
MEDIA
Earlier this week I saw a screening of Underground, a 1976 documentary interviewing members of the Weather Underground in a safe house. The film was released despite efforts by the FBI to subpoena the filmmakers and confiscate their footage, and is an intimate document of the internal and organizational processes of the radical formation.
I just discovered that you can access Third World Newsreel’s channel via the New York Public Library. I watched Inside, Women, Inside and though this French Palestinian solidarity documentary was restricted to subscribers, I was able to find it on YouTube: Palestine Vaincra (1969).
MUTUAL AID
❤︎ Jaylen T. Strong and The Library Sciences are distributing free books for Black people at this year’s Body Hack for Dweller. Buy a book for someone by Venmo @jaylen-strong. Jaylen is my heart fr and the heart of so much political study for all of us!
❤︎ Goddess Mami Queen Diva survival fund - Xio, Adonis, Levi, and Lucy are a New York-based four-piece transsexual noise punk band struggling to find stability in their housing situation. They are treasured, invaluable members of the community here in NYC and any contribution, no matter how small, helps them stay and create in their city.
❤︎ Lē’s Top Surgery Recovery - Another angelic being whose fundraiser has quite a bit to go before meeting the goal! Can we close the gap?
❤︎ Hadeel’s Substack - From Gaza, a story of survival. I just became a paid subscriber to receive updates from Hadeel and her family, who are rebuilding their life after evacuating.
READING:
The beautiful Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair by Joseph M. Pierce, and Don’t Mark His Face: The Account of the Hull Prison Riot (1976) and its brutal aftermath by THE PRISONERS THEMSELVES - full text available on this great online archive, well worth a browse.
