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Revolutionary Papers x MayDay Rooms: Anti-colonial Print Cultures
April 9 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm BST
We are excited to be collaborating with Pelican House and Revolutionary Papers for this event and exhibit. At Pelican House, Revolutionary Papers will be exhibiting fabric prints of the covers of anti-colonial periodicals alongside materials from the MayDay Rooms archives, and kicking the exhibit off with a discussion between archivists from around the world and contemporary organisers active in anti-imperialist solidarity movements today.
Revolutionary Papers is an international, transdisciplinary research and teaching initiative on anticolonial, anti-imperial and related left periodicals of the Global South. It traces the ways that periodicals supported social, political and cultural reconstruction amidst colonial destruction, building alternative networks that circulated new political ideas and dared to imagine worlds after empire. This “from below” approach to history allows us to engage with intra-movement discourses and relocate the power of anti-colonial movements away from charismatic leaders to the organising base that made their rise possible.
Guest Speakers include: Hana Morgenstern, Koni Benson and Mahvish Ahmad (Revolutionary Papers Collective), Tarun Gidwani (South Asia Solidarity Group), Ashraf Nabil (Palestinian Youth Movement) & Shiraz Durrani. Come for the dive into anti-colonial movement ephemera – stay for the cheap drinks!
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