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  Seeing Writing as Reading
  Facilitated by Sasha Frere-Jones

  June 11, 18, 25, 2025, 7–9pm

  

Past Reading Groups

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  Poems Full of Pebbles and Bones: A Seminar with and on Peruvian Poetry
  Facilitated by Judah Rubin, Jennifer Shyue, and Honora Spicer

  Sunday, May 4, 2025, 5–7pm
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  Aesthetics of the Repressed
  Facilitated by Adam HajYahia and Haitham Haddad

  Sunday, April 27, 2025, 4–6:30pm
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  Refuge in the Hell Realms: A Reading and Somatic Practice Group
  Facilitated by Alisha Mascarenhas

  April 9, 16, 23, 2025, 7–8:30pm
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  Against the Structural Weight of Catastrophe: A Poetics of Negation
  Facilitated by Amr Amer and Laura al-Tibi

  Saturday, April 5, 2025, 4–6:30pm
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  Life Studies: a June Jordan Reading Group
  Facilitated by Conor "Coco" Tomás Reed

   

  October 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024, 6–8pm
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  Grouping Read: A Reading Group on Groups
  Facilitated by Ethan Philbrick

  Saturday, May 11, 2024, 2–5pm
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  Bernadette Mayer and Everything
  Facilitated by Kay Gabriel

  September 28, October 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023, 7–8:30pm
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  Lauren Berlant and Friends
  Facilitated by Charlie Markbreiter

  June 12, July 10, 24, 2022, 6–7:30pm, June 26, 2022, 12–2:30pm
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  Something Like Freedom Reading Group 

  In collaboration with Weeksville Heritage Center

  May 15, 22, 29, 2022, 3–5pm
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  Detachment Theory: Lauren Berlant and the Impersonal
  Facilitated by Charlie Markbreiter

  March 13, 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17, May 1, 2022, 6–7:30pm
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  Sound, Power, and Culture
  Facilitated by Josh Rios

  January 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022, 2–4pm
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  Writing for Decay—Advocacy as Rebirth
  Facilitated by Demian DinéYazhi'

  October 11, 18, 25, November 1, 8, 2021, 6–7:30pm
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  Performance Philosophy Reading Group with JJJJJerome Ellis
  In collaboration with CPR - Center for Performance Research

  Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 6–7:15pm
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  Rivering Towards: Desert-Water Poetics and Politics 
  Facilitated by Mallika Singh

  January 24, 31, February 7, 14, 21, 2021, 2–4pm
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  Unsettling Historical Common Sense
  Facilitated by Frances Cathryn

  October 19, 26, 2020, 6–7:30pm
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  Abolitionist Insurgency: Ending the Grammars of Capture
  Facilitated by Che Gossett 

  September 13, 20, 27, October 4, 11, 18, 2020, 2–3:30pm
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  Creating New Worlds: Revolutionary Mothering, Mutual Aid Networks, and the Transnational Movement for Abolition
  Facilitated by Mai'a Williams

  Sunday, August 16, 2020, 5–7pm
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  The Future of Time: Predictive Analytics and Incarceration
  Facilitated by American Artist

  Sunday, August 9, 2020, 5–7pm
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  Valuing Black Lives: A Case for Abolishing the Death Penalty
  Facilitated by Alexis Hoag
  

  Sunday, July 19, 2020, 5–7pm
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  An End to Political Policing
  Facilitated by Alex S. Vitale
  Moderated by Philip V. McHarris

  Saturday, July 18, 2020, 5–7pm
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  “I Speak the Way I Speak Inside”: Alejandra Pizarnik and the Translated Self
  Faciliated by Alexis Almeida

  February 9, 16, 23, March 1, 8, 2020, 5–7pm
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  Black Feminist Praxis Reading Group
  Facilitated by OlaRonke Akinmowo
  In partnership with The Free Black Women's Library

  October 21, November 4, 18, December 2, 9, 16, 2019, 7–8:30pm
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  California Ideology Reading Group

  September 15, 24, 29, October 8, 2019, 7:15–9pm
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  James Baldwin's America
  Facilitated by Marwa Helal

  April 1, 8, 15, 22, May 6, 20, 24, 2019, 7–9pm
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  Audre Lorde: Your Silence Will Not Protect You! 
  Facilitated by OlaRonke Akinmowo

  September 29, October 20, November 17, December 15, January 19, February 23, 2019, 2–3:30pm
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  Spring-Summer Writing Seminar
  "Postcolonialism" Reading & Discussion Group

  April 22, May 13, June 10, 24, July 8, 22, August 5, 26, 2016, 7–8:30pm, May 27, 2016, 12:07–8:30pm
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  The Fabrication of Social Order: A Critical Theory of Police Power by Mark Neocleous
  Facilitated by Molly Osberg

  February 17, 24, 3, March 3, 10, 17, 2015, 7–8pm
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  Feminist Reading Group
  Facilitated by Elvira Basevich and Ruby Brunton

  October 16, 30, November 13, 20, December 4, 18, 2014, 7–9pm