Radical Playdate: the summer edition
Saturday, July 15, 1pm–3pm
Saturday, August 12, 1pm–3pm

Parents, kids, and families of all forms! Radical Playdate continues with two more playdates this summer.

July 15 will have an open discussion about radical parenting. What does it mean to be a radical parent or caretaker of young people? What are some ways we can be even more radical? And how can we cultivate this practice through Radical Playdates at Interference Archive? Let’s share ideas, and build together.

Are you interested in reading more about this? Visit our website! Do you have questions? Send us an email -- we'd love to be in touch.

When We Fight Back: Resistance, Survival, and Risk
Thursday, July 20, 7pm

Join us for a screening of a series of short films on the options, resources and risks that people face when resisting sexual and gender violence, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Third World Newsreel and concurrent with the exhibition Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up.

Our program includes Janie’s Janie (1971, 25 minutes), Make Out (1970, 5 minutes), and Walking Home (2011, 4 minutes, a production of the Third World Newsreel Workshop) which link questions of personal autonomy and consent to the liberation movements of the time. We will also screen a series of three short videos (2017) from the organization Survived and Punished on the cases of Joan Little, Paris Knox, and Marissa Alexander that show the risks of repercussion that women, especially women of color, face when they choose to fight back against sexual and physical violence. Visit our website for more information.

New from Audio Interference: Just Food & Fair Food Nation

“Even if it seems like it doesn’t directly relate to food, it does. Food relates to housing, to life, to water, to land.” – Qiana Mickie

This episode of Audio Interference includes an interview with Qiana Mickie, Executive Director of Just Food about the challenges of working toward fairer food access in New York and the relationships between food justice and other social movements. We also talk to Jen Hoyer and Maggie Schreiner, curators of Fair Food Nation, Interference Archive’s recent exhibition at the Ace Hotel.  Listen to this episode on our website!

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.

Do you have spare audio equipment to donate?

Interference Archive's Audio Working Group would love your help in the form of donated equipment. This equipment will be used for the production of our podcast, Audio Interference, and for creating recordings of our events. As you might know, the archive is run by volunteers, and much of the money we take in goes directly to our biggest expense, rent. Donations of equipment can make a big difference, and would allow us to do more audio work. Equipment donors--like all Interference donors--will have our sincere gratitude.

We've put together a list of equipment (below) that would work with the equipment we already own. Please contact info@interferencearchive.org if you would like to make a donation.

• micro SD memory cards, at least 16 GB
• wind screen for a Tascam DR-05 recorder
• digital recorder with an XLR or 1/4" input for external mics (some examples: Zoom H4N, or Tascam DR series)
• shotgun mic
• mic stands (both floor mic stands and table top mic stands)
• handheld mic windscreens
• cables, including an XLR output to 1/8" input cable, or XLR cables of various lengths