Join us Saturday! Holiday Sale and Open House
Saturday, December 9, 12-5pm

We are so excited to have you come visit us in our new home! Join us on December 9th from 12-5pm to celebrate the amazing space our archive has moved into, and take a moment to pick up some holiday gifts.

In addition to all your favorite Interference Archive merchandise, our friends from Justseeds Artists Cooperative and Common Notions will be joining us to sell prints and books. Comics, zines, and posters, will be for sale from the Our Comics, Ourselves crew.

Can't make it to our sale? Visit the Justseeds website to order Interference Archive and Justseeds merchandise!

Finally Got the News and Take Back the Fight: Double Book Launch to Celebrate Radical Publishing at Interference Archive
Saturday, December 9, 5-7pm

In the midst of our big move over the past few months, we’ve been keeping busy with a few other great projects — including the release of two new publications! Join us for the launch of Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979, and Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up.

Born out of exhibitions of the same names at Interference Archive over the last six months, both books function as so much more than exhibition catalogs, instead sharing ideas and resources that are intended to continue conversations we started in our space over the course of our own research, collaboration, and exhibition organizing. We’ll be joined by Malav Kanuga of Common Notions for a brief conversation about why it’s important to publish this kind of material. Contributors to both publications will be invited to share comments on their own work and their contributions to these books, and some of the material from the Take Back the Fight exhibition will be on display.  Visit our website for more information.

Finally Got the News at Red Emma's!
Thursday, December 7, 7:30pm
Red Emma's Bookstore, 30 W. North Ave, Baltimore MD

Join our collaborator Brad Duncan for a celebration of our Finally Got the News publication in Baltimore! Check out Red Emma's website for more details.

Audio Interference 42: Social Justice Tours

“My favorite thing is just the dialogue that gets created, and having people understand a little bit more about their communities and the potential for them to slow down or halt directions that they may not want it to go in.”

In this episode we talk to Dan Kaminsky and Michael Higgins Jr. of Social Justice Tours, who use tours as a medium to dig beneath the surface of what New Yorkers regularly see. Social Justice Tours aims to engage New Yorkers in a critical dialogue about the past, present and future of our city, from the perspective of marginalized populations. The ultimate aim is to assist in movement building; that is to disperse information, expose injustice, and highlight inequality in a digestible, understandable way to encourage thought and inspire action. The group offers tours focusing on Trump’s influence in midtown, gentrification in Williamsburg, and the radical history of Lower Manhattan. Visit our website to listen.

Help our friends at Booklyn set up their new home!

Booklyn is an amazing part of our community, dedicated to education and social justice through the exhibition and distribution of artists' books, zines and prints. We are thrilled that our friends at Booklyn have been invited to move into a new space that will give them room to grow, with expanded facilities for production and education that will increase their ability for audience outreach and impact.

They really need your help getting set up in their new space! Visit their kickstarter to help them out.

Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up
On partial view at our new location through the end of 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.

This exhibition 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.

Take Back the Fight 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.