BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.18.3.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Housmans Bookshop X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.live X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261111T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261111T203000 DTSTAMP:20261006T150640Z CREATED:20261006T150636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261006T150640Z UID:83224-1794423600-1794429000@housmans.live SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Revolution Under Construction: The SAAL Housing Process\, 1974–76 DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of this illuminating study of one of the most remarkable housing initiatives in European history. With the author\, Sara Almodovar Pereira\, in conversation with architect and theorist Dr Dubravka Sekulić.\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK: \n\n\n\nThe fall of the dictatorship in 1974 saw the start of Portugal’s revolutionary period and with it one of the most remarkable housing initiatives in European history. As an immediate response to the vast portion of the population living in slums and shanties\, the SAAL (Mobile Local Support Service) was established to equip impoverished people to build the new homes they needed. Initiated by architect Nuno Portas\, the SAAL connected citizens with planners\, architects\, engineers\, and builders to collaborate on the design and construction of new developments\, to be built on requisitioned sites as close as possible to the inhabitants’ former homes. The resulting estates were intimately informed by their inhabitants’ needs and hopes. Through their uniquely participatory process they developed a celebrated new architectural language. \n\n\n\nIn this book\, Sara Almodovar Pereira collects the experiences and reflections of those who participated in the SAAL\, reconstructing this extraordinary chapter in architectural and social history through the voices of those who were there\, at the protests and meetings\, on the building sites and barracks. The experiences recounted are revelatory\, demonstrating truly participatory architecture and offering new understandings of housing as right and provision\, far from prevailing paradigms and their perpetuated logic of ‘crisis’. This immersive oral history traces the unfolding of a historical moment at ground level and reminds us of ways of working and building that could transform the future. \n\n\n\nSara and Dubravka will talk for around 45 minutes followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.live\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.live. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.live/event/book-launch-revolution-under-construction-the-saal-housing-process-1974-76/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/BOOK-TALK-The-Journal-of-a-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner1-edited.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261118T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261118T203000 DTSTAMP:20261022T114219Z CREATED:20261005T120156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261022T114219Z UID:83164-1795028400-1795033800@housmans.live SUMMARY:DISCUSSION & FILM SCREENING: BLACK BRITONS\, RACE\, AND POLICING DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the seminal documentary work\, BLACKS BRITANNICA\, and to also celebrate the publications of Bisi Akintoye’s incredible new history of the Black British experience and policing. Featuring Bisi Akintoye and chaired by Dr Remy-Paulin Twahirwa.\n\n\n\nBlacks Britannica (1978) is a landmark documentary examining the experiences of Black communities in Britain during the 1970s. Through interviews and contemporary footage\, the film explores racism\, policing\, immigration\, employment and resistance\, capturing a period of intense political struggle over race and belonging. Its account of Black British life provides a powerful historical backdrop to continuing debates about racialised policing\, citizenship and the relationship between Black communities and the state. \n\n\n\nBisi Akintoye’s new book\, Black Britons\, Race\, and Policing: The Long Shadow\, explores the historical and contemporary policing of Black communities in Britain\, revealing how much has — and hasn’t — changed. Drawing on 58 interviews with young people\, elders\, and community workers in a heavily policed North London neighbourhood\, it offers a powerful\, intergenerational account of racialised policing and its everyday consequences. Through an intersectional lens\, it examines how race\, gender\, class\, and place overlap to shape Black Britons’ encounters with police and their sense of belonging. Through the voices of those most affected\, the book traces how these experiences have produced enduring cultural narratives of mistrust\, resistance\, and exclusion. Exposing how policing continues to racialise and criminalise certain communities designated suspect status\, it connects these practices to the legacies of empire and the politics of othering. It concludes by considering what these histories mean for the present and future of police-community relations and offers practical recommendations for building trust\, accountability\, and justice. \n\n\n\nTo celebrate the launch of this vital new book we welcome Bisi will be in conversation with Dr Remy-Paulin Twahirwa; the two will draw out key themes from the documentary and Bisi’s vital book. Expect illuminating discussion and some drinks and snacks. We look forward to seeing you there. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.live\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.live. \n\n\n\nPlease note copies of the book will be for sale on the night. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.live/event/panel-black-britons-race-and-policing/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion group,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/978-3-032-11662-8-1.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261124T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261124T203000 DTSTAMP:20261028T103736Z CREATED:20261022T115840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261028T103736Z UID:84038-1795546800-1795552200@housmans.live SUMMARY:50 FEMINISM IDEAS YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW: Maya Oppenheim in conversation with Sian Norris DESCRIPTION:Come and join feminist critics Maya Oppenheim and Sian Norris in conversation as they go over the essential foundations of feminist thought \n\n\n\nHousmans is thrilled to welcome writer and journalist Maya Oppenheim to the shop alongside fellow author and journalist Sian Norris to celebrate the publication of Maya’s second book\, ‘50 Feminism Ideas You Really Need to Know’. \n\n\n\nThe book delves into the history\, ideas and battlegrounds that have defined and divided feminist movements. In 50 accessible essays\, the writing spans the worlds of pop culture\, art\, politics\, the criminal justice system\, economics\, conspiracy\, sexuality\, and activism. The book delves into a range of contemporary issues – from the manosphere to tradwives to conspirituality – which feminist movements wrestle with today as the far right swells in power. There is also a strong historical and theoretical element to the book\, with chapters on postmodern feminism\, women’s suffrage\, marxist feminism\, anarcho-feminism\, Black feminism\, abolitionist feminism\, queer theory\, psychoanalytic feminism\, and much more. The book has been endorsed by Mel B (Scary Spice)\, Gina Martin\, Deborah Frances-White (The Guilty Feminist podcast)\, Amnesty International UK\, Poorna Bell\, Charlie Craggs\, Sian Norris and Andrew Bernie Bernard. The book is part of the popular 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series\, which includes books on art\, literature\, psychology\, politics\, physics\, fashion\, literature and much more. Maya and Sian will unpick the book’s themes together. This will be followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.live\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.live. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.live/event/50-feminism-ideas-you-really-need-to-know-maya-oppenheim-in-conversation-with-sian-norris/ CATEGORIES:Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/BOOK-TALK-The-Journal-of-a-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner1-edited.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261202T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261202T203000 DTSTAMP:20261110T155412Z CREATED:20261110T155409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261110T155412Z UID:84752-1796238000-1796243400@housmans.live SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Listening Like A Girl by Juliana Gleeson DESCRIPTION:Join celebrated writer and thinker Juliana Gleeson\, author of Hermaphrodite Logic and co-editor Transgender Marxism for the launch of her latest work of radical trans theory. \n\n\n\nListening Like A Girl\, Juliana Gleeson’s latest work\, argues that at the core of the feminine is the act of listening\, and more to the point\, listening more intently than those speaking. While society constructs listening as a form of passivity\, it hides an inherent power as a highly skilled and competent act\, capable of undermining patriarchal expectations. \n\n\n\nExtrapolating from this core observation\, Gleeson takes the reader on a cultural and theoretical journey. She explores figures from pop singer Troye Sivan to Jacqueline Rose\, provides new perspectives on butch and bisexuality\, and the links between femininity and communist politics. \n\n\n\nOur author: \n\n\n\nJuliana Gleeson is a writer and salonnière born in west London\, living in east Berlin. She is known for adoring the em dash—and one censored newspaper interview. She is the author of Hermaphrodite Logic and the co-editor of Transgender Marxism.  \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.live\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.live. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.live/event/book-launch-listening-like-a-girl-by-juliana-gleeson/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/BOOK-TALK-The-Journal-of-a-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner3-edited.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261216T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261216T210000 DTSTAMP:20261110T181208Z CREATED:20261110T181205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261110T181208Z UID:84772-1797447600-1797454800@housmans.live SUMMARY:PANEL DISCUSSION: Amy De'Ath's 'BEHIND OUR BACKS: Feminzed Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction' DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel to celebrate the publication of Amy De’Ath’s seminal new work of Marxist-Feminist theory\, alongside Samuel Solomon and Rebecca Carson. \n\n\n\nIn this daring study\, Amy De’Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital’s impersonal compulsions – by what happens “behind our backs.” Challenging the symptomatic interpretive methods of Western Marxism\, De’Ath argues that value-critical accounts of Marx’s work enable a feminist reading method that understands how value dissimulates itself from the social forms it generates\, obscuring their historical content. \n\n\n\nClose reading works by Kay Gabriel\, Bernadette Mayer\, Bhanu Kapil\, Marie Annharte Baker\, Alli Warren\, and Hannah Black\, Behind Our Backs explains how these examples of feminized ingenuity reveal capital to be the expression of a social relation that must take form—an abstract logic realized every day\, and one whose gendering inversions are felt and critiqued in the poetic experiments of trans\, queer\, Indigenous\, and diasporic writing. Feminized poetry\, De’Ath demonstrates\, is both a central archive and theoretical powerhouse for the critique of capitalist political economy. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.live\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.live. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.live/event/panel-discussion-amy-deaths-behind-our-backs-feminzed-poetry-and-capitalist-abstraction/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/BOOK-TALK-The-Journal-of-a-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner4-edited.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR