Come Read With Us!
New reading group starts August 12

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, starting August 12, 2017. Participants should find a copy of The New Jim Crow at your local public library or bookstore. We’re coming at this discussion not as experts, but as people who love to learn and who hope to learn from the others who come to this group. We’ll also work together to find related material in the Interference collection for us to read if we choose; participants are encouraged to suggest related articles, podcasts, and books for others to check out as we go along.

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

Radical Playdate: the Summer Edition!
Saturday, August 12, 1pm–3pm

Radical Playdate has been in full effect since February 2017. So far, we've made a zine, we made stencil graphics, created a growing resource list of music and storybooks, and we even had a little music protest parade. Now, we'd like to talk more about how we can make Radical Playdate more "radical," and to expand our all-ages community. If you've been thinking of showing up, now is the time to do that!

August 12 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.

Do you have questions? Send us an email or visit our website. Otherwise, we hope to see you soon!

Film Screening: Eat Your Children
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, July 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 all and limited to 20 participants. If you would like to participate, please RSVP at: info@interferencearchive.org  

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.