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Join us for a reading from poets Mauricio Novoa and M L Mutrux and a poetry open mic at Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center.

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Join author Kylie Cheung in conversation with Lex McMenamin for the book launch of Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans.

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From short-term power outages to longer periods sheltering in place or boil water orders, its always important to make sure you and your family are prepared for any scenario.

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The liberal myth is that politics is when we change people's minds with words. But as this book demonstrates, people's minds are rarely changed by arguments alone (and "discourse" often serves as a legitimizing myth for those in power). Instead, we can change people's hearts and minds only when we change their lives--through building relationships and helping them take action. Let's stop talking about politics and create a new world instead. 

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Ayurvedic medicine is an ancient study of life that takes a holistic approach to healing. Join UC Green in learning how to create a routine for yourself that assists with reducing chronic pain.

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Join Philly Socialists for a special June film club! We will be screening 40 Years a Prisoner (2020), a documentary that chronicles the 1978 Philadelphia police raid on the Black liberation group MOVE and the subsequent fight of Mike Africa Jr. to exonerate his parents. Following the film, Mike Africa Jr. will join us for a Q&A.

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Presented by Richelle Yousaf.

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Join us on Saturday, July 19th at 5:00 PM for the book launch of Out Doing Science: LGBTQ STEM Professionals and Inclusion in Neoliberal Times with coauthors Tom Waidzunes and Ethan Czuy Levine in conversation.

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Join us for the final meeting of the Learning While Black and Queer study group. Author Dr. Ed Brockenbrough will be in attendance to lead the discussion and answer your questions. 

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Join South Philly Autonomous Cinema and Philly Socialists as we continue our series of Palestinian films, fundraising, and solidarity at Making Worlds Bookstore! We will be screening Elia Suleiman's The Time That Remains.

Join climate activists Mikaela Loach and Wawa Gatheru for a conversation about the need for radical climate action that fearlessly addresses the issues at the root of the climate crisis and to celebrate the launch of Mikaela Loach's book It's Not That Radical.

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Please arrive 15 minutes early to register for the event and browse books. Buying a book before or after the event is a great way to support the Making Worlds project.

25% off select titles and 10% off store wide on Saturday, July 5th! See you there!

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Get inspired to take action and connect with a global movement! Watch How to Start a Revolution, a powerful film that explores how uprisings begin and what unites us across borders in the fight for justice. This thought-provoking documentary reveals the power of collective action and how we can create lasting change.

Join us for a three part study of Learning While Black and Queer: Understanding The Educational Experiences of Black LGBTQ+ Youth by Dr. Ed Brockenbrough.

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Bringing to light the suppression of the AIDS pandemic, Buddies (1985) was the first film to publicly discuss this global health crisis in the US. The film follows two gay men from different class backgrounds who come into contact through an in-hospital “buddies” program that pairs AIDS patients with a companion.

This event has been postponed! New date TBA

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Join Philly Socialists for a special June film club! We will be screening 40 Years a Prisoner (2020), a documentary that chronicles the 1978 Philadelphia police raid on the Black liberation group MOVE and the subsequent fight of Mike Africa Jr. to exonerate his parents. Following the film, Mike Africa Jr. will join us for a Q&A.

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From vacant downtowns to depressed wages, inner city pollution to poisoned rural groundwater, the concentration of corporate power has been profitable for a few executives but disastrous for working people and their communities. Written by a worker for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, this zine documents the battles and triumphs of the growing antimonopoly movement, and shows how you, too, can fight against corporate control where you live and work.

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In October 2020, Walter Wallace Jr. was killed by Philadelphia police while he suffered from a mental health crisis. Following his death, community members organized to implement Philadelphia’s first non-police mental health crisis response program. Join Amistad Law Project and community organizers for a screening of Care Team, a short documentary that follows two mobile crisis workers as they respond to mental health emergencies across the city.

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Join BAP Philly in a dismantling of the commodification of Juneteenth. We will engage the actual history of the holiday, its purpose, and why the state has found it useful to reframe it as a national holiday.

Please arrive 15 minutes early to register for the event and browse books. Buying a book before or after the event is a great way to support the Making Worlds project!

Please arrive 15 minutes early to register for the event and browse books. Buying a book before or after the event is a great way to support our project! Pre-register here.

The Philly No Appetite For Apartheid Campaign would like to invite interested member of the Community to learn about our No Appetite for Apartheid Campaign and how they can help promote the divestment from Israel in their local community! We are hosting a Community Crawl, where we canvass businesses, hang up flyers and posters in public areas and generally inform the public of the BDS campaign. This campaign will also spread Know Your Rights awareness posters as we also put up flyers directing people to immigrant resources and leave the Know Your Rights Red Cards at businesses we canvass

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Please arrive 15 minutes early to register for the event and browse books. Buying a book before or after the event is a great way to support the Making Worlds project!

Who gets to move freely, and who is policed for simply existing? This workshop/lecture explores the politics of moving through space—who is granted access, who is restricted, who is punished, and who enforces these boundaries. From racialized incidents like the Amy Cooper case, where a white woman weaponized the police against a Black man in Central Park, to the everyday gendered dynamics of manspreading on public transportation, to age restrictive curfews, and trans bathroom discourse, power is constantly negotiated through space. Not only is the state an arbiter of where and when you can be, but individuals are able to invoke the state at their behest to enforce their will. Why and how do people deem themselves as the arbiters of space?

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Join us for a teach-in on imperial techniques for concealing material truth, from the Nakba to the Andes.

In partnership with BI-CO FSP and Juntos.

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This course aims at creating a conceptual map of Silvia Federici’s theories and activism from her manifesto on wages for housework to the contemporary conception of the commons. We will do a close reading of her canonic texts to define strugglers, struggles, and localities. Each class meeting starts with a set of questions and ends with a set of conclusions drawn from the discussion. The goal is tracing a decolonial trajectory in her work and assessing its adaptability to our surroundings. For each meeting we’ll read one portion of Federici’s Caliban and the Witch plus a more recent article in a chronological order on the following topics: sexuality, housework, violence, and the commons.

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Issue 2 of Long-Haul Magazine is OUT! 

We’ll have copies of Issue 2 for sale, free drinks, and a few words to share about our project. Join us at Making Worlds for a few hours before we move down the street to Abyssinia. Catch us at the bar after 7PM if you can’t make it earlier!

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Join Philly Socialists as we screen Here and Elsewhere, a 1976 essay film co-directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Incorporating footage of Palestinian freedom fighters from an unfinished documentary commissioned by the PLO, the film cuts between scenes in Lebanon, Jordan, and the West Bank and more abstract sequences filmed in France to critically reflect on the role of media, the filmmaking process, propaganda, and the responsibility of the artist.

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Join us in celebrating the release of the Assata’s House Zine with a special screening of the Assata Shakur documentary, followed by a deep, liberatory conversation with the zine’s contributing writers. This event invites us to not only reflect on Assata’s life and ideology, but also to step into our own roles as freedom dreamers, world-builders, and active participants in collective liberation.

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It never ended with us. Literary fiction has long shaped our cultural conversation around domestic violence. Since Colleen Hoover’s novel It Ends With Us and its recent film adaptation have set the spotlight once again on this evergreen issue, how has the conversation changed? Join us for a panel discussion featuring Natalie Adler, Kristen Martin, and Sarah Wang.

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Join a panel of organizers from The W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School and other leading abolitionist organizers and thinkers in reflecting back on the lessons of the rebellion five years ago, and what collective study and struggles means in our present moment.

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This course aims at creating a conceptual map of Silvia Federici’s theories and activism from her manifesto on wages for housework to the contemporary conception of the commons. We will do a close reading of her canonic texts to define strugglers, struggles, and localities. Each class meeting starts with a set of questions and ends with a set of conclusions drawn from the discussion. The goal is tracing a decolonial trajectory in her work and assessing its adaptability to our surroundings. For each meeting we’ll read one portion of Federici’s Caliban and the Witch plus a more recent article in a chronological order on the following topics: sexuality, housework, violence, and the commons.