Film Screening: Eat Your Children
Saturday, August 19, 7pm

Join us for a screening followed by a conversation with filmmakers Treasa O’Brien and Mary Taylor.

Eat Your Children is a provocation, an inside-out activist film, a film that attempts to document the invisible. It is a road-trip quest by two friends who emigrated from Ireland during the financial crash of 2008 and who have now returned to probe Ireland’s so-called acceptance of debt and austerity.

This screening is free and open to the public; read more details on our website.

Individual and Community Self-Defense Workshop
Saturday, August 19, 1-3pm

As part of the current Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up exhibition, the Interference Archive is partnering with the Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE) to host a Peer Educator Self-Defense Workshop.

Youth Peer Educators from CAE will lead an exciting and participatory self defense workshop. In this workshop, participants will learn how to protect themselves using physical self defense techniques, the power of their voice, and engaging in activism.

This workshop is open to girls, transyouth, women, and LGBTQ+ identified folks and is limited to 20 participants. If you would like to participate, please RSVP at: info@interferencearchive.org

Come Read With Us!
Our reading group just had a fabulous start last Saturday, and we'd love for you to join us!

We've decided to spend some time reading together over the coming weeks at Interference Archive—we're starting with The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, because we thought this would be a great book to have people to talk with about—whether you’re reading it for the first time, or for a second (or third?!).

Our discussion will happen every second Saturday afternoon (4-6pm) at Interference Archive. Our next session is Saturday, August 26 from 4-6pm; we'll be reading chapter one in advance of our discussion.

Check out our reading schedule and discussion times on our site, or email us for more info.

Interference Archive Annual Block Party
Saturday, September 2, 2–6pm

We’re bringing back the block party! Save the date and join us on September 2 for food, music, screen printing, and other activities, including a short drop-in workshop by the Center for Anti-Violence Education.

Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up
Exhibition Dates: June 1 – October 29, 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.