Letters: The Classroom is Burning, Let's Dream About a School of Improper Education
Letters: The Classroom is Burning, Let's Dream About a School of Improper Education
Publisher Ugly Duckling Presse
Author KUNCI Study Forum & Collective
Since its founding as a cultural studies group in 1999 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, KUNCI Study Forum & Collective has experimented with methods of producing and sharing knowledge through acts of collective study at the intersections of affective, manual, and intellectual labor. This pamphlet is a collaboratively authored epistolary essay that narrates the discourse behind the development of KUNCI’s School of Improper Education, an initiative that posits studying together as a tactical approach to create the conditions for social movement. Founded in 2016, The School of Improper Education is an avenue through which unlearning can be practiced, where unknowingness can be transformed into a series of productive tools for understanding the contemporary social ecosystem and articulating the resourcefulness of an independent art and cultural organization.
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Author KUNCI Study Forum & Collective
Since its founding as a cultural studies group in 1999 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, KUNCI Study Forum & Collective has experimented with methods of producing and sharing knowledge through acts of collective study at the intersections of affective, manual, and intellectual labor. This pamphlet is a collaboratively authored epistolary essay that narrates the discourse behind the development of KUNCI’s School of Improper Education, an initiative that posits studying together as a tactical approach to create the conditions for social movement. Founded in 2016, The School of Improper Education is an avenue through which unlearning can be practiced, where unknowingness can be transformed into a series of productive tools for understanding the contemporary social ecosystem and articulating the resourcefulness of an independent art and cultural organization.
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Care Not Cops
Care Not Cops
Publisher Lucky Risograph
Author Julia Schaefer and Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy
Crown Heights Mutual Aid (CHMA) was formed in March 2020 during the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. We are a network of neighbors supporting one another and the most vulnerable in our community, mobilizing against the COVID-19 health crisis and the ongoing crises of state violence, food injustice, and housing inequality. CHMA is also a tool for building connections and reciprocal relationships: we all have something to offer, and we all have something we need as we struggle towards justice. This poster is intended to both spread awareness of how to get involved with Crown Heights Mutual Aid and fundraise for our neighbors’ groceries. “Care Not Cops” makes explicit that CHMA is a long-term project, and we are committed to building processes and finding sustainable solutions. Operating in the spirit of collective care and responsibility, we refuse to collaborate with law enforcement in our aid work; much of what we do is necessitated by the violence and oppression carried out by the police and America’s carceral apparatus. Lucky Risograph, who continues to offer free printing services for activists and movement organizers, printed all of our posters. All money raised went toward getting groceries to our neighbors.
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Author Julia Schaefer and Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy
Crown Heights Mutual Aid (CHMA) was formed in March 2020 during the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. We are a network of neighbors supporting one another and the most vulnerable in our community, mobilizing against the COVID-19 health crisis and the ongoing crises of state violence, food injustice, and housing inequality. CHMA is also a tool for building connections and reciprocal relationships: we all have something to offer, and we all have something we need as we struggle towards justice. This poster is intended to both spread awareness of how to get involved with Crown Heights Mutual Aid and fundraise for our neighbors’ groceries. “Care Not Cops” makes explicit that CHMA is a long-term project, and we are committed to building processes and finding sustainable solutions. Operating in the spirit of collective care and responsibility, we refuse to collaborate with law enforcement in our aid work; much of what we do is necessitated by the violence and oppression carried out by the police and America’s carceral apparatus. Lucky Risograph, who continues to offer free printing services for activists and movement organizers, printed all of our posters. All money raised went toward getting groceries to our neighbors.
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Even The Score, Gentrification, Volume I
Even The Score, Gentrification, Volume I
Publisher Homie House Press
Author Guest editors: Jy Amada + Jamila Silvera
EXTRA EXTRA read all about it! We have a newspaper: Even The Score. We are thrilled to bring you the continuation of our very first project, I Used To Live Here. #IUTLH was the catalyst for Homie House Press to go into the independent publishing world for us, by us and about us! We have teamed up with 2 angels in order to bring you this newspaper. If you don’t know, get to know Jy Amada + Jamila Silvera; the baddie bae’s, educators, brains, and curators behind volume 1! The first volume is taking a deep dive into GENTRIFICATION and community actions surrounding this topic. With it, we are inviting y’all to take part as well, this entire newspaper is to be used as an accessible art and educational tool within community. We at HHP work as publishers, artists and journalists to do our part to even the score. We do this little by little every day. We believe that the answers to resolution are in collaborating and engaging with community on all levels. Not one entity can fix America. It takes a village y’all! We are honored to have Jy + Jamila’s expertise and phenomenal insight into a very important and relevant situation that endangers our communities. Cannot wait for y’all to hold it in your hands. Inside every newspaper is the tools provided to do a community action in public space. We are so excited to collaborate with each and every one of y’all.
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Author Guest editors: Jy Amada + Jamila Silvera
EXTRA EXTRA read all about it! We have a newspaper: Even The Score. We are thrilled to bring you the continuation of our very first project, I Used To Live Here. #IUTLH was the catalyst for Homie House Press to go into the independent publishing world for us, by us and about us! We have teamed up with 2 angels in order to bring you this newspaper. If you don’t know, get to know Jy Amada + Jamila Silvera; the baddie bae’s, educators, brains, and curators behind volume 1! The first volume is taking a deep dive into GENTRIFICATION and community actions surrounding this topic. With it, we are inviting y’all to take part as well, this entire newspaper is to be used as an accessible art and educational tool within community. We at HHP work as publishers, artists and journalists to do our part to even the score. We do this little by little every day. We believe that the answers to resolution are in collaborating and engaging with community on all levels. Not one entity can fix America. It takes a village y’all! We are honored to have Jy + Jamila’s expertise and phenomenal insight into a very important and relevant situation that endangers our communities. Cannot wait for y’all to hold it in your hands. Inside every newspaper is the tools provided to do a community action in public space. We are so excited to collaborate with each and every one of y’all.
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