Radical Playdate!
Saturday, June 10, 1-3pm

As an archive and as a community, we’re exploring ways to be more family-inclusive in hopes of growing our community. We would love for you to be a part of it. We want to make social movement building a part of little ones’ lives as early as possible. Radical Playdates are a step in that direction.

All ages are welcome! Past playdates have included storytime, stencil-making, zine making, music, and more. Please feel free to bring a book, a snack, or a drink to share, but it is not at all required. You are most welcome as you are.

If you have any questions, or if you have idea for specific programming you would like to contribute–a song, an activity, etc.–please email info@interferencearchive.org, otherwise see you there!

New Podcast! Take Back the Fight

Interference Archive’s summer 2017 exhibition Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up–a collaboration with Lesbian Herstory Archives–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. In this episode of Audio Interference, we talk to the organizers of the exhibition: Lani Hanna, Melissa Forbis, Rachel Corbman, Monica Johnson, and Louise Barry. Listen to it here.

Cataloging Party
Thursday, June 8, 6-9pm

Help us catalog our collection! We meet once or twice a month at Interference Archive to catalog our collection. Join catalogers — old and new — to learn the ropes of cataloging in our online catalog. Our next cataloging party is on Thursday, June 8 from 6 to 9pm.

Bring your own laptop and cord, if possible; unfortunately we don’t have enough to go around. If it’s your first time, please email Jen to get set up with an account (info@interferencearchive.org). No experience is required. Come learn with us!

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.