Thanks so much for coming to our block party!

And a huge thank you to the Center for Anti-Violence Education, POP Gym, koyt far dayn fardakht, Shoestring Press and Mobile Print Power, Radio Free Gowanus, and all of the amazing Interference Archive volunteers who helped organize the event.

We'll be moving over the coming month, which means we will not be open for our regular hours in September. But don't worry! While our doors are closed, we'll still be busy. Read below for details about our ongoing reading group; come watch a screening of Out in the Night on Sunday evening at the Lesbian Herstory Archives; join us for the launch of an amazing exhibition at SUNY Purchase later this month; and stay tuned next week for more info on how you can help us out with our move!

Out in the Night Film Screening at the Lesbian Herstory Archives
September 10, 7 pm
484 14th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

In conjunction with the exhibition Take Back the Fight, Interference Archive and the Lesbian Herstory Archives are offering a screening of the film Out in the Night.

Out in the Night is a documentary that tells the story of a group of young friends, African American lesbians who are out, one hot August night in 2006, in the gay friendly neighborhood of New York City. They are all in their late teens and early twenties and come from a low-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. Two of the women are the focus – gender non-conforming Renata Hill, a single mother with a soft heart and keen sense of humor, and petite femme Patreese Johnson, a shy and tender poet. Through the lives of these four young women, Out in the Night reveals how their race, gender identity and sexuality became criminalized in the mainstream news media and criminal legal system.

Suggested donation of $5-$10. Visit our website for more info.

Come Read With Us!

We've been reading The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander together, and we'd love for you to join us! Our discussion happens every second Saturday afternoon (4-6pm) at Interference Archive. Our next session is Saturday, September 9th from 4-6pm; we'll be reading chapter two in advance of our discussion.

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

We Are All In This Together
OFF-SITE EXHIBITION
Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery at Purchase College
September 27 – November 10, 2017

We Are All in This Together, presented by Interference Archive with the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, uses the collection of Interference Archive and materials produced by the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative to explore artists’ solidarity with social movements.

There is a long tradition of artists as organizers. Artists participate in social justice through their creativity communicating demands and goals with visual works, with their labor in producing multiples, and through creating consumable items for fundraising. We Are All in This Together illustrates the moments when artists have rolled up their sleeves to do the dirty work of organizing. More than providing political commentary or personal response to topical events, many cultural workers have used their trade and skillset in solidarity with social, economic and environmental struggles. This exhibit will use Justseeds prints that were produced in solidarity with recent struggles, including Standing Rock, the Wisconsin uprising, and Boycott Divestment & Sanctions, along with ephemera produced by those social movements. Read more on our website.

Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up
Exhibition Dates: June 1 – September 3, October - December 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.