Celebrate the launch of Radical Unlearing in Durham at the Carnival of Unlearning!
An interactive book launch party for Radical Unlearning: The Art and Science of Creating Change from Within by Lewis Raven Wallace.
At Perfect Lovers in partnership with Letters Community Bookshop.
Sunday November 2, 2pm-5pm at Perfect Lovers, 2823 N Roxboro St in Durham
Drag Booth! Collage! Whack-A-Mole! Ask A Rock! Poetry Mad Libs! Drag featuring. G Clef! Conversation and somatic play featuring Yashna Padamsee and Eliana Rubin!
REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT (not required to attend)
About the Event:
The Carnival of Unlearning is an invitation to play, create, and explore in the spirit of radical unlearning, and will feature readings, games, and performances with Lewis Raven Wallace, Yashna Padamsee, Eliana Rubin, Mia Henry, and G Clef. We’ll have snacks and carnival tickets for sale at a sliding scale to benefit our friends at Feed Durham, and Letters Bookshop will be there selling copies of Radical Unlearning.
This event is MASKS REQUIRED and FREE, but donations will be encouraged as a fundraiser for Feed Durham. DONATE NOW: https://cash.app/$FeedDurham or Patreon.com/FeedDurhamNC
About the Book:
An accessible exploration into how we can use trauma psychology to unravel and transform our harmful beliefs
In Radical Unlearning, journalist and transgender antiracist activist Lewis Raven Wallace argues that breaking out of the frameworks of thought and behavior we’ve been taught in our formative years is possible. But what does it take to let go of our most deeply held beliefs and ideologies?
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Join us for the South Carolina launch November 30!
Sunday Nov. 30, 11 a.m.
All Good Books, 734 Harden St, Columbia, South Carolina
Lewis Raven Wallace (they/ze/he) is an award-winning independent journalist based in Durham, North Carolina. He's the author of The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity and the host of The View from Somewhere podcast. Lewis is the Abolition Journalism Fellow with Interrupting Criminalization, a 2021 Ford Global Fellow, and a 2020 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In 2019, he cofounded Press On, a Southern movement journalism collective. He is also a proud cofounder of Black and Pink Southwest Ohio, the Chicago Childcare Collective, and Riot Youth, Michigan’s first youth-run space for queer teens. When he’s not working, he plays the accordion, writes poetry, and spends time with his pitbull named Frankie and his potbellied pig, Dogwood Daffodil.
Autumn Brown is an artist, mother, and activist based in Minneapolis, MN. She is the singer-songwriter at the heart of the music project, AUTUMN, and she cohosts the podcast How to Survive the End of the World, with her beloved sister.
adrienne maree brown (she/they) is growing a garden of healing ideas. Informed by decades of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship and doula work, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Loving Correction as ideas and practices for transformation. adrienne is the NYT-bestselling author/editor of several published texts, a ritual singer-songwriter, co-generator of the Lineages of Change Tarot Deck, and co-creator/host of How to Survive the End of the World podcast with Autumn Brown. adrienne's latest books Loving Corrections and Ancestors are now available from AK Press.