#OnThisDay in London herstory, 3-day Anarcha feminist conference begins at Centro Iberico, 1979. More on the Centro at its various buildings: wp.me/p74yfw-1nl

As we launch our new issue 7.2, we explore the lasting connections between space, time, and housing justice. Edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila Maria Saaristo, Andy Crosby, and Melora Koepke. Read the editorial below and explore the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org

"By excavating the urban struggles of 1970s Italy with a spatialized understanding of Operaismo’s signature theoretical contribution––class composition––the book provides both an important contribution to radical urban history and a window into how current urban struggles might be theorized." ❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🔥

Social reproduction theory shows how capitalism depends on life’s renewal. In Palestine, settler colonialism wages war by obstructing that renewal at every turn. Making Death and Life in Palestine edited by Tithi Bhattacharya and Susan Ferguson is OUT NOW! www.plutobooks.com/product/maki...

THIIIS: "It's the connection between the shit private production provides in the market and the miracles women are supposed to perform with it inside the family that's really the key. The cutting edge of consumption work isn’t procuring but *taking up the slack*…" (quoting Roz Petchesky)

Rosalind Petchesky still going strong? 🥹

Lise Vogel, The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism, ed. Kirstin Munro, Pluto, November 2025 www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...

"Technology, the labor process, and the working class" (1976) archive.org/details/tech...

#OnThisDay in London radical herstory, 2001: Silver Moon feminist bookshop closes its Charing Cross Rd premises. The shop moved into Foyles 2001-6. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/book...

‘“Resistance” spans the hundred years or so during which the photographic print was the primary medium of visual communication. Aesthetically and technically, this makes sense. Politically, however, it’s curious.’ @trillingual.bsky.social on Steve McQueen. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

📣 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Methodologies and Epistemologies of Social Reproduction Apply by 15 Nov to join a 2026 #workshop for scholars, practitioners and activists engaging with social reproduction theories, and employing traditional and non-traditional methods. ➡️ Find out more: buff.ly/ZFAUEkF

📢 This week on the USF Blog! Dr Cesare Di Feliciantonio, Magdalena Moreno & Dr Gabriella Palermo introduce their #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant on feminist & queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism. 🔗 ow.ly/S7FV50XolP7 #UrbanStudies #FeministGeographies #QueerUrbanism

Book Launch at @histmat.bsky.social Sunday 11/9! @alansearslefty.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

Interested to learn more about this People's Papers project? Check out a link of upcoming and past events as well as recent blog posts here: linktr.ee/peoplespapers

Went ahead a made a separate account for this archival research -- follow along @peoplespapers.bsky.social !

Today's the day! Join us on Zoom at 3pm: peoplespapers.eventbrite.co.uk @cperguom.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social @writerlytone.bsky.social

New research spotlight now up on the People's Papers instagram! Featuring @rememberlop.bsky.social 🤩 www.instagram.com/p/DPByPPpjGG...

Tonight! Last few tickets left:

Join us for an online People's Papers research project workshop to learn about the history of 1970s alternative newspapers, their archival preservation & their continued relevance for today. All welcome! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-...

With @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social and many others!

Next up in the #Manchester Urban Film series, we're focusing on the city's contested music (and urban) histories. We'll be showing film + interview clips followed by a collective discussion. Learn more and sign up to join us on Sept 25th here: mancunianway.eventbrite.co.uk @cperguom.bsky.social

"Hookers, dykes and women of colour celebrate 50 years of making trouble & history" - Wed Oct 22 @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social: www.bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/act...

Sharing some reflections today at the CSE Midlands conference “Britain’s financialised capitalism & the politics of change”: csemidlands.wordpress.com

Want to hear more about some of the many alternative local newspapers (such as LOP) that sprang up around the UK in the 1970s and 1980s? If so, this online event might just be for you. Thanks to @feministcity.bsky.social, @wcmlibrary.bsky.social and @cperguom.bsky.social, among others.

So much bad news, but this fall the Metro NY Library Cncl is launching the first iteration of its Cross-Reference Coalition, an experimental interdisciplinary school ft 17 participants from across NYC’s libraries, colleges + municipal depts, plus artists + designers. We’re exploring The Misfit.

Please join us for this upcoming CPE co-sponsored event later this Sept.

First @rgsibg.bsky.social session:

Save the date! Organizing an online “People’s Papers” workshop on Sept 30th to hear from projects in Leeds (@rememberlop.bsky.social), Liverpool and Birmingham: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-... @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

Proposals to “repair” or “restore” the planet therefore must answer the questions: Which ecosystems—and whose—will we repair and restore? Which—and whose—flourishings will we enable? What planet are we making, and for whom? @alybatt.bsky.social

New blog post with an update on the "People's Papers" archival research project up now on the @wcmlibrary.bsky.social website! wcml.org.uk/blog/a-peek-...

This Lou Kushnick syllabus on Race and Class from 1970s @uomsociology.bsky.social‬ in the Olive Morris's archive is amazing -- what a treasure trove of academic sources! Would absolutely have loved to take this class 😍 Anyone interested in a revival/reading group?!

So nice to get to chat with Tony Harcup about @rememberlop.bsky.social at the @wcmlibrary.bsky.social today! And thanks for the book donations 💞

New "People's Papers" blog post up on the @wcmlibrary.bsky.social website! wcml.org.uk/blog/a-blast... More on the project here: www.instagram.com/peoplespapers/

This iconic issue from Viewpoint Magazine is 10 years old this year ! Still so much to learn & appreciate in these many articles: viewpointmag.com/2015/11/02/i... (Would love to have some kind of collective reading/reflection event or discussion on publishing/political lineages if there's interest!)

Tonight at the #InterferenceArchive! I'll be sharing more about my research on (/obsession with) activist + grassroots newspapers from the 1970s both in the UK and also with a special focus on NYC: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

Chronic understaffing, unsafe ratios of children to staff, precarious conditions for young women in their first jobs: the nursery workers strike of 1984 has been largely forgotten. In this week's podcast, we talk to the people behind audio-series Nursery Workers Bite Back: www.historyworkshop....

The last screening of the Manchester Urban Film Series is coming up this Monday @wcmlibrary.bsky.social ! It’s on the topic of direct action and youth activism from the 1990s to today 📢 in collab w/ @globaljusticenow.bsky.social Manchester activists. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/undercurre...

Looking forward to getting into more archival research @wcmlibrary.bsky.social this summer as part of a @uom-humsdocacad.bsky.social PGR Placement. Exploring my fave topic of 1970s grassroots/activist newspapers 💓 Get in touch if you'd like to be involved! wcml.org.uk/blog/the-peo...

Issue 7.1 is live! 🥁 "Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-... #housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance

Great online talk today by @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk)! Such interesting and useful insights around fragments, ways of knowing and the urban www.ucpress.edu/books/fragme...

And another film to add! 1967 documentary "demonstrating how the formation of a food-buying club by a group of Newark welfare mothers brought about a necessary change in the community." archive.org/details/With...

Powerful keynote by Amrit Wilson on South Asian women’s activism and reproductive politics in the 1970s and 1980s at ‘Paths to justice: reproductive politics, activism & global solidarity’ workshop organised by @carolina-topini.bsky.social and @maudannebracke.bsky.social.

It's a big Wages for Housework day ! Very nice to get to talk with the Capital & Class / CSE Midlands group this morning about the archives and 1970s feminist spatial politics <3 Stay tuned for more of their upcoming events! csemidlands.wordpress.com

Next up! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-f...

Thanks to everyone who made it out last night! Highly recommend checking out the documentary Paradise Circus about Birmingham in the 1980s (it also includes interviews with the Matrix Feminist Design Cooperative too): vividprojects.org.uk/projects/par... via @vividprojectsuk.bsky.social

This Monday! Last few tickets left: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-night... With a great lineup of feminist academics and practitioners from @careaesthetics.bsky.social @OfficialUoM @manmetuni.bsky.social <3

Talking with the CSE (Conference of Socialist Economists 😍) Midlands group on May 21st! On the topic of: "Wages for Housework and beyond: Excavating a 1970s feminist spatial (counter)politics in New York City & London" csemidlands.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/w... w/ hopefully some good archive chats!

The Oxford Rent Cultures Network is hosting a screening and discussion of Nick Broomfield's brilliant documentary, Behind the Rent Strike, which charts the 1974 rent strike in Kirkby, Liverpool. Dr. Kerrie McGiveron will be joining us to introduce the film www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/behind-the...

Also save the date for another archival film night! The Political Economy Centre @uomsoss.bsky.social is hosting a screening + discussion of the 1976 Wages for Housework documentary, All Work and No Pay. More info + RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/archival-f...