Advocacy On-Air: Panel Discussion on Radio and Activism
When: Monday, October 16, 7pm
Where: Starr Bar, 214 Starr Street, Brooklyn

Audio Interference – the biweekly podcast produced by Interference Archive – re-launches this October. To mark this occasion we are hosting Advocacy On-Air, a panel discussion on the use of radio as a political medium and a community building tool. Guests will include Sylvia Ryerson, of Appalshop's Calls from Home, and Charlie Uruchima, of Kichwa Hatari New York, and Naomi Brussel of Out-FM.

Because we're still unpacking in our new space, we're holding this event at Starr Bar (214 Starr Street, Brooklyn) at 7pm on Monday, October 16. Hope to see you there!

Can you step in before tomorrow?

Tomorrow is the last day to donate to Interference Archive's once in a decade campaign. When you donate today you'll be moving us one step closer to our goal--and we're so close!

Together, over the past month, we have raised 92% of our $35,000 goal (with just 36 hours left to go)--386 supporters new and old stepped up to get us there.

These funds are directly supporting the next era of Interference Archive as we rebuild and grow. Already our entire collection of 30,000+ archived social movement objects has been boxed up and transported to our new home by 30+ volunteers did that! Now we are setting up the new space, preparing for the re-install of our current exhibition, and planning for events that will start this November.

While so much has changed since September there’s a lot that has also stayed the same. . . our mission, a commitment to our community, and an always open door. The community hub you've known IA to be will return refreshed and energized in just a couple short weeks.

The last day to donate to this campaign is tomorrow, Wednesday, October 11. Please make a donation today and spread the word.

We Are All In This Together
OFF-SITE EXHIBITION
Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery at Purchase College
September 27 – November 10, 2017
EXHIBITION OPENING (Updated time!):
September 27, 2017: lecture at 5pm, reception 6-8pm

We Are All in This Together, presented by Interference Archive with the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, uses the collection of Interference Archive and materials produced by the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative to explore artists’ solidarity with social movements.

There is a long tradition of artists as organizers. Artists participate in social justice through their creativity communicating demands and goals with visual works, with their labor in producing multiples, and through creating consumable items for fundraising. We Are All in This Together illustrates the moments when artists have rolled up their sleeves to do the dirty work of organizing. Read more on our website.

Resistance Across Time
Offsite exhibition with Gallery Affero at Window Gallery, Express Newark
Sep 20, 2017 – Feb 18, 2018

“Resistance Across Time” is a selection of posters from Interference Archive, curated by Evonne M. Davis of Gallery Aferro, meant to remind viewers of the long history of social movements led by and in support of women’s rights, LGBTQ rights and the rights and safety of people of color. Social movements and the fight for justice, fairness and equality have being taking place for centuries of human history. 

This exhibition is created to honor the women, LGBTQ people and People of Color who have led the way in the past, often at great personal sacrifice and high cost, while also encouraging next generation social justice warriors to learn from our history while they develop and create new methodologies and practices to try and carry us forward toward a better future for all people.

Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up
Exhibition Dates: June 1 – September 3, October - December 2017

Recovery from trauma after sexual assault is often imagined as a personal, internal experience. However, an exclusive focus on individual narratives of victimization and healing can obscure decades of collective, grassroots struggle by and on behalf of sexual assault survivors. Rape is not an isolated experience, but a pervasive form of violence that acts in concert with oppression in the workforce, at home, and in medical and academic institutions--as well as with structural racism, homophobia, transphobia, and capitalism. Likewise, organizing against sexual violence is intimately linked to struggles for liberation in both public and private spheres. The history of organizing against sexual assault and rape helps us to understand feminist resistance to violence as a collective struggle against patriarchy, and sexual and gender violence as a function of state violence.

Interference Archive’s summer 2017 exhibition Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up focuses on organized responses to gender and sexual violence, highlighting the ways individuals and communities have developed creative and powerful grassroots and non-institutional justice and healing practices. A collaboration with Lesbian Herstory Archives, Take Back the Fight narrates intersecting histories of activism by and on behalf of survivors of sexual violence and their communities.

This exhibition will situate multiple histories of resistance to sexual violence within a broader narrative of feminist, anti-racist, and queer activism. It will present strategies of resistance, both historical and contemporary, looking at the ways in which activists have sought justice outside of the courts and the criminal justice system. Ultimately, Take Back the Fight will demonstrate the crucial role of grassroots organizing in the struggle against sexual violence and the importance of this activism as a tool of both healing and resistance. Read more on our website.