Gives voice to the Black women whose lives were devastated by the carceral system and sheds powerful light on its slavery-based roots to transform how we think about mass incarceration

Torches: an Emerging Writer's Circle is a monthly space for writers to hone their craft and create new work together in a community space.

Come out and show us what you've got! Calling all poets, rappers, musicians, and comedians! We invite you to perform at our local open mic night, here in Baltimore! Participants may perform up to 5 minutes, ONE piece!

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Join us to learn how to whine! Come out, learn a few new movies, and free yourself up. All levels welcome!

Gian, trans and queer activist, spent six months on the ground in the West Bank, Palestine standing in solidarity with Bedouin Palestinians as they stood against settlers, military, and the brutal occupation of their homeland. This presentation will be a summary of their time, the major events that occurred, as well as what it was like to be queer in Palestine.

Join the Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy for a breakfast series exploring the amazing solidarity economy enterprises that are black-led, Black-centered, and putting people, ecology, and justice before private profit.

Bottom Text is a reading featuring personal essays by local writers. We believe that memoir can be used to document and deconstruct the scenes, shifts, and systems that dominate our lives and minds.

This exhibition features selections from the artist’s (Angel Golden) extensive body of textile and digital work. Angel’s work explores the black body as a political landscape and sacred altar.

A biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of America.

Claudia Rankine has widened contemporary literature with her consciousness-raising, genre-defying works. In her first book after her celebrated American trilogy, presented with full-color visuals, Rankine shifts into sustained narrative, memory, criticism, and essay to offer her most personal and emotionally resonant writing yet.

A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right—and a recipe for how to fight them.

Join us for a special event celebrating the release of the first collection of writings from by a beloved thinker in Black anarchism and a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army.

Drawn from the American Prison Writing Archive, a pivotal anthology of essays by incarcerated writers about the prison’s role in perpetuating harm

NYC-based theater-maker Lizzie Olesker and filmmaker Lynne Sachs present HAND BOOK, a collection of writings and images from a performance and film set within a neighborhood laundromat, a microcosm of service work within our urban reality. Their performative reading and short film screening will take a deep, poetic dive into laundry and its history. The authors will be joined by Baltimore artist Laure Drogoul and film artist-curator Joanna Raczynska.

In this lyrical debut, three generations of Palestinian women must put the haunting of their ancestral home to rest, before the secrets of the past drown them all.

The story of how the mass mobilization for World War II catalyzed the national and international political movements and conflicts of the postwar period

TOGETHER WE FIGHT explores Indigenous and non‑Indigenous women's brutal experiences of forced sterilization and their subsequent activism for reproductive rights and justice.

As tech bosses fall in line with the right, tech workers are fighting back. This is the rousing inside story of their movement—and the way it spawned an anti-worker backlash now reshaping the industry.

A unique, conversation-starting essay collection about critical care work, kink practices, and how one might transform the other.

The forgotten lynching that launched America's fight for Black voting rights—and the federal cover-up that followed.

A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the present