Schedule of speakers, panels, and workshops
Friday September 23rd
12PM-8PM Annual Zine Bazaar in the Radical Bookfair Pavilion
An all-day celebration of fiercely independent publishing, DIY politics, crudely drawn comics, uncompromising self-expression, and long arm staplers, with zine authors from Baltimore and beyond reading from their works and selling/trading their creations.
With presentations and readings by:
- 1 PM Emilia Frances, Ship of Fools
- 1:30 PM Spencer Compton Get Real
Red Emma's own Spencer Compton presents his self-published pocket provocation exploring radical aesthetics. - 2 PM Ryan Abb Vain Glory Comic
- Baltimorean Ryan Abb will discuss his comic Vain Glory. The latest issue features the adventures of Daze Angel and Belfis!
- 2:30 PM Katie Omberg Gay Kid
Self-published auto-biographical cartoons about coming out. - 3 PM Corey Reidy Persolitical
Local activist, Corey Reidy, debuts her new zine series 'Persolitical' at this year's Radical Bookfair. Her first issue explores the dynamic between Feminism and "Beauty"* - 3:30 PM Leah B Genderedge Punk inspired transgender activism through art.
- 4 PM Mark Gunnery The Girl Who Renegotiated Trauma
- Local independent journalist, musician, and amateur herbal specialist released his zine Renegotiation of trauma is the process through which the repetitive cycle of triggering, reenactment, and acting out is transformed into a healing ritual.
- 4:30 PM Monna Wong, Sine Hwang Jensen, and Amy Dewan
- Baltimore activists Monna Wong, Amy Dewan, and Sine Hwang Jensen are the Baltimore crew of contributors to an exciting collaboratively-written zine exploring Asian womyns bodies to be released at the Zine Bazaar!
- 5 PMChina Martens Catbird/The Future Generation/Don't Leave Your Friends Behind
- China has been a long-time staple of the punk, zinester and radical mama communities. She started writing her zine Future Generation about the issues she faced as an anarchist single mother. Don't Leave Your Friends Behind is a collaborative zine dedicated to airing the stories of parents in the radical community who are shut out once they have children and giving practical advice on how to concretely support kids and caregivers in your community. We'll be the first to hear China read from the latest issue of China's most recently started perzine, Catbird, to be released for the Zine Bazaar!
- 6 PMCindy Crabb Doris Zine
- Doris is the two-decades-old personal zine of the anarchist adventurer, Cindy Crabb. Exploring every aspect of daily life, from cooking and gardening to issues of abuse and rape, Cindy has a way of writing about life that can vibrate the heartstrings of anybody. We are super excited to welcome Cindy on their tour celebrating the release of the Doris Encyclopedia which includes issues 19-27 and other zines and new writings which comes out in August! Don't miss this!
Afterparty!
9PM @ Liam Flynn's Ale House (22 W. North Ave.)Saturday September 24th
Literary Salon Stage:
5PM Baltimore Histories Panel with
Antero Pietila, former journalist for the Baltimore Sun and author of Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City (Ivan Dee, 2010), the explosive new history of housing segregation and discrimination in Baltimore City.
Elizabeth Nix, Thomas Hollowak, Jessica Elfenbein, editors of Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City (Temple University Press, 2011), a collection of essays and reflections drawn from the multi-year University of Baltimore public history project.
Rhonda Williams, author of The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles against Urban Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2005), a groundbreaking history of Baltimore tenant organizing.
In the Radical Bookfair Pavilion:
Noon: Dan Chodorkoff, Loisaida (Fomite, 2011)
Co-founder of the renowned Institute for Social Ecology presents his first novel, exploring anarchy, memory, and radical coming of age on the Lower East Side.
1PM Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontier of Fatherhood (PM Press, 2011)
Editor Tomas Moniz and contributors TBA present this anthology of reflections on radical parenting, drawn from the zines Rad Dad and Daddy Dialectic.
2PM Race and Sports
Dave Zirin, author with John Carlos of The John Carlos Story (Haymarket, 2011)
Thabiti Lewis, author of Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America (Third World Press, 2010)
3:30PM I Mix What I Like: A Mixtape Manifesto (AK Press, 2011)
Author Jared Ball, professor of Communication Studies at Morgan State and radical radio columnist, presents a special live edition of his Freemix Radio: The Original Mixtape Radio Show to celebrate the publication of I Mix What I Like, a hard-hitting look, decolonizing look at the music industry, the news media, and emerging models of audio resistance. With special guests and musical performers TBA.
5PM LOVE the Poet presents Black Marks on White Paper (2010)
Powerful, politically-engaged queer spoken word from rising Baltimore poet Michelle Antoinette Nelson.
6PM Punk, gender, race
A panel exploring the intersections of loud music, identity, privilege, and solidarity. (Cosponsored by the Charm City Art Space!)
Stephen Duncombe and Max Tremblay, editors of White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race (Verso, 2011)
Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The true story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (Harper Perennial, 2010)
In the Baltimore Free School Lit & Language Tent
Noon: I want to get published---where do I begin?
Workshop by authors Maria Murnane and Kyra E. Hicks2PM: Post Typography
Maria and Kyra, fiction and non-fiction authors, will save you time, money and frustration by explaining the differences between traditional and self-publishing. You'll come away with a step-by-step guide for each based on their experiences with both processes. Maria and Kyra will also cover the pros and cons of each route to help you weigh them against your goals as an author.
An introduction to lettering and typography with Bruce Willen of Post Typography, one of Baltimore most prominent graphic design firms, daytime alter-ego of beloved Baltimore band Double Dagger, and co-author of Lettering and Type, which he'll be signing after the talk.3PM: Bound Together!
A hands-on workshop with students from MICA's Book Arts program. Learn the fine art of Japanese stab binding and create your own blank book, or bring along your own project to bind!4PM: Opinions . . . everybody's got one: Writing about what you love, what you hate, and the everything else that makes up the majority of life.
Former CityPaper Arts Editor Bret McCabe moderates an interactive panel of local critics and journalists discussing what it's like to critique, report, and otherwise wrestle with writing about the arts, culture, and current events in this era everybody's a critic, dogmatic shouting and anonymous commenting counts as debate, and consuming media means often means separating the substantive wheat from the shrill noise chaff.
Afterparty!
9PM @ The Ottobar (upstairs)Cullen Stalin + Friends Playing Riot Grrrl, Queercore, Political Punk, Post-Punk & other Fun Tunes All Night!
No Cover + $5 Boh/Shot Special!
9pm-2am * Ages 21+
Sunday September 25th
In the Radical Bookfair Pavilion:
1PM About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War (PM Press, 2011)
Join editor Emma Cape for a presentation of stories and testimonies of anti-war soldiers, drawn from the Courage to Resist Audio Project.
2PM Transgender Politics
In the wake of the murder of Tyra Trent, the beating of Chrissy Lee Polis, and the failure of the Maryland legislature to approve an anti-discrimination ordinance providing some minimal legal protections to transgender individuals, this will be a tragically timely panel, providing a space to ask difficult questions and provide critical analysis around issues of trans-identity and the politics of policing. With:
- Dean Spade, founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law (South End Press, 2011)
- Eric A. Stanley, editor of Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (AK Press, 2011)
3:30PM Social movements and state repression, then and now
A panel examining the legacies and recent histories of the use of police and prisons to infilitrate, marginalize, and brutalize people brave enough to stand up for their beliefs. With:
- Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege (City Lights, 2011), the essential chronicle of the campaign to crush ecological direct action activism.
- Susan Rosenberg, former political prisoner and author of An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country (Citadel, 2011)
- Dominque Stevenson, co-author of Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther (AK Press, 2011), the autobiography of Marshall "Eddie" Conway, imprisoned over four decades ago for his work with the Black Panther Party.
5PM Cities, Communities, Resistance
Marisela Gomez, East Baltimore anti-displacement activist and author of a forthcoming book detailing the fight against the EBDI/JHU land grab.
Matt Hern, urban activist, author of Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future (AK Press, 2010), and founder of the Purple Thistle radical youth center traces the intersections between sustainability, grassroots city planning, and community.
Jordan Flaherty, radical journalist and New Orleans community organizer presents his Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena 6 (Haymarket, 2010) examining the sufferings and triumphs of the people of post-flood Louisiana.
In the Baltimore Free School Lit & Language Tent
Noon: Autonomy Through Literacy: How to Help Young People Find Joy in Reading
Our television-infused culture has cut a lot of young folks off from the world of books, but, as adults, if we are easily frustrated by reading, we have a harder time accomplishing all we want to accomplish. This workshop—facilitated by Baltimore City public school teachers—is aimed at parents and teachers of children and teens, and discusses current research and techniques for encouraging reading in the home and in the classroom, as well as strategies for assisting struggling readers, and an open discussion of books appropriate for encouraging readers of all ages.1PM: Urban Theory for Kids!
Art activist Becky Slogeris presents the "Baltimore Textbook," a new book that teaches middle school readers how to read their city.3PM: The Art of Debate
Facilitated by former and current members of the Baltimore Urban Debate League, and coordinated by Towson-based radical policy activist group Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, this two-hour session gives everyone the opportunity to learn the fine art of constructing (and winning) an argument.