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!

QQD is matchmaking for LGBTQIA2S+ adults in Baltimore & DMV--make new connections and get dates in person! Sugg ages 21-34 Romantic Mini Dates with LGBTQIA+ folx in Baltimore & DMV--make new conections and date intentionally! Suggested ages 21-34 for this event.

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

temperatures are dropping and our community members are cold! people are released from Central Booking at all hours of the day and night into whatever weather, often without proper attire or warning. please join us in collecting warm clothes for folks just released from jail and surrounding neighbors.

We live in uncertain times. But what does uncertainty mean for our ability to act?

BLACK POWER PRAXIS shows how four groups of activist-intellectuals—James and Grace Lee Boggs, Richard and Milton Henry, Reverend Albert Cleage, and a group of college students called Uhuru—shifted the consciousness and political perspectives of Black Detroiters in the 1960s and 1970s.

Join us at Red Emma’s to discuss Bench Ansfield's BORN IN FLAMES, which tells the story of the 1970s arson wave in the Bronx, and how it was abetted by federal regulators, careless insurers, and landlords themselves, who paid “torches” to burn down their own buildings.

Through storytelling, reflective writing, collective ritual, sensorial meditation, and participatory art practices, participants will learn practical skills for navigating uncertainty while strengthening their connections to themselves, one another, and the city they call home.

Fabricant examines the present diminishment of democracy through the prism of intensifying conflict between market freedom and citizen rights. The fate of democracy is at the center of this book’s exploration of the decline of the welfare state and rise of radical right politics.

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.

An incomplete global history of democratic economic alternatives

Join us for a screening of the critically-acclaimed prison documentary THE WORK, which features a four-day men's circle intensive at New Folsom Prison in Folsom, CA. This raw and riveting film gives a sneak peak into the power and magic that can take place when a group of maximum-security prisoners and outside volunteers courageously take off their masks and take an honest look at their wounds, fears, and shame. All are invited to stay after the film for circle conversation facilitated by former New Folsom Prison chaplain Greg Mellor.

An eye-opening account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point

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

In a world where the reoccurrence of evil is persistent, where even so-called progressives oscillate between doing the right thing and failing to act, where even those on the Left may not be on the same channel, we need the arts to help us find some frequency through which we can resonate in our efforts to transform society!

A groundbreaking and powerful investigation into how the fall of Roe changed American health care far beyond reproductive rights.

The first popular biography of Eugene Debs, the railroad worker turned radical visionary whose leadership helped elect more than a thousand Socialists across the country during the Progressive Era and inspired generations of Americans to fight back against the power of the rich over our politics and our lives.

Why did Marcus Garvey’s black nationalism collapse while A. Philip Randolph’s labor organizing reshaped American politics? This book traces the root, and the relevance, of two competing visions for black liberation.

A vivid, enchanting novel, spanning over sixty years, chronicling the lives, loves, and secrets of three generations of women in radical twentieth-century Barcelona—a rediscovered classic by “the shining light of Catalan literature.”

As inequality, inflation, and overwhelming corporate power threaten democracy, a rising-star economist asks what it would mean to create an anti-fascist economics that guarantees dignity for all.

An urgent polemic and practical guide to dismantling the immigrant detention system.

Please join Physicians for Human Rights and Al Jazeera for a special screening of DYING IN DETENTION which follows the tragic death of 39-year-old Ismael Ayala-Uribe in an immigration detention facility in California. The screening will be followed by Q&A with participants in the documentary and filmmakers.

How workers and customers engage utility regulation to act on climate change, energy affordability, and environmental, racial, and economic injustice.

Through Punjabi men’s struggles to marry, migrate, love, and escape, COMING OF AGE IN MACHOLAND reveals what patriarchy costs the men it promises to empower.