We Live in Public Launch Party and Book Release | Los Angeles
Nov
3
6:30 PM18:30

We Live in Public Launch Party and Book Release | Los Angeles

Please join us on Tuesday, November 3rd from 6:30-9PM at Stories Books for the launch party and book release of We Live in Public: Encampments as Resistance and Revolutionary Care in Los Angeles.

Written by unhoused organizers, teachers, care workers, builders and healers who lived on Aetna Street, along with their co-conspirators and collaborators, We Live in Public is an invitation to revolutionary care in a time of class war.

In the face of state abandonment, poor and houseless people have always lived on the frontlines leading towards futures of housing and healthcare through radical redistribution of care.

With authors Jennifer Blake, Rebecca Chavez, Ronald Hams, Giselle Harrell, Paisley Mares and All Power Free Clinic.

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We Live In Public Panel Discussion | San Francisco + Virtual
Dec
3
7:00 PM19:00

We Live In Public Panel Discussion | San Francisco + Virtual

City Lights and Common Notions Press celebrate the publication of We Live In Public: Encampments as Resistance and Revolutionary Care in Los Angeles – Edited by Carla Orendorff, Anthony Orendorff, Lupita Limon Corrales, Ananya Roy, and Marisa Lemorande – Preface by Robin D. G. Kelley

This event is free to the public and will take place both instore and online. The virtual part of the event will be hosted on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a device that is capable of accessing the internet. To attend online you must register. In store seating is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis. No reservation required.

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Who? New! | Brooklyn Book Festival, Panel
Sep
27
12:00 PM12:00

Who? New! | Brooklyn Book Festival, Panel

Each season, BKBF presents several debut authors whom we want to shine the light on for our audience. This year we present bookstore co-founder Jules Wernersbach (Work To Do), writer and editor Radhika Singh (Earthly Playing Field), professor Che Yeun (Tailbone) and multi-media artist Ankur Thakkar (Blow Yourself Up). Novelist Isle McElroy (People Collide, Satellite) will introduce the writers and talk about their own experience when they were a debut author.

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Community Journalism and Popular Power | Philadelphia
Sep
13
4:30 PM16:30

Community Journalism and Popular Power | Philadelphia

Community Journalism and Popular Power: Lessons from Spain’s Housing Movement

With João França and PAH ( the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages / Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca)

Join activist-journalists and organizers from Spain’s housing movement for a conversation about documenting popular politics and building power from below.

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How We Make the Worlds We Want Workshop Series | Virtual
Sep
1
8:00 PM20:00

How We Make the Worlds We Want Workshop Series | Virtual

Learn with the editors of Remaking Democracy.

Using the Spiral of Change, participants will learn how to analyze problems, consult desires, and design social interventions to grow participation and democratic power. Build analysis and strategy for sustainable social transformation.

Danielle and Elizabeth will be sharing decades of experience as organizers, artists, and teachers.

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On Speculative Futures | Bay Area
Aug
27
7:00 PM19:00

On Speculative Futures | Bay Area

How science fiction offers answers to the political questions of our time.

Through a discussion of the contemporary science fiction novel Earthly Playing Field, author Radhika Singh and Omar Zahzah will explore how, far from an apolitical indulgence, genre fiction offers a powerful vehicle to undermine structural oppression and push the imagination into the realm of resistance.

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Love & Revolution in a Crumbling World Order with author Radhika Singh Kased | Bay Area
Aug
22
4:00 PM16:00

Love & Revolution in a Crumbling World Order with author Radhika Singh Kased | Bay Area

  • Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery (map)
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Tonight join author Radhika Singh with comrades Mayuran Tiruchelvam and Rama Ali Kased in conversation about Earthly Playing Field—a speculative tale connecting ongoing People's movements against global imperialism through a queer, Sufi love story.

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Black Cat Book Fair | Belfast, ME
Aug
22
to Aug 23

Black Cat Book Fair | Belfast, ME

  • First Church Belfast (main location, talks will take place at 17 Court St) (map)
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Rural Radical Book Fair on Penobscot Land in so-called Maine.

August 22nd 11am-6pm & August 23rd 1-5pm, 2026

PROGRAM SCHEDULE AND PARTICIPANTS

Childcare will be available on the ground floor of the First Church’s Fellowship Hall on Saturday August 23 from 11am – 5pm. The childcare area is in the church’s designated “nursery” room and is open to children ages 2 years and up.

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BOMB’s Small Press Flea 2026 | NYC
Aug
15
12:00 PM12:00

BOMB’s Small Press Flea 2026 | NYC

BOMB’s Small Press Flea (SPF) returns on August 15, 2026 to host an all-day market dedicated to supporting over thirty independent publishers and small presses from across the US at Amant, a contemporary art center in Brooklyn. This year’s SPF promises to provide your end-of-summer reading, arts and literary workshops, and refreshments.

Rain or shine, unless it’s pouring, 12–6 PM. Enter at 316 Ten Eyck St.

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People Do Come Home: An Event for the Prairieland Defendants and All Political Prisoners | Virtual
Jul
26
2:00 PM14:00

People Do Come Home: An Event for the Prairieland Defendants and All Political Prisoners | Virtual

One day our comrades will come home. Leonard Peltier came home last year; Marius Mason came home this year. Many of our Green Scare, Animal Rights, Anarchist, Black and Puerto Rican Liberation, Indigenous and Anti-Imperialist Warriors, and Conscientious Objectors have come home. And one day the Prairieland and other anti-fascist prisoners will return to our communities, too. 

Join the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Support Committee and friends for an online webinar, Sunday, July 26, at 2pm ET, as we celebrate Marius Mason’s return home and let those inside know we are here for them. MC’d by Matt Meyer with Ashanti Alston, Diana Block, Josh Harper, Ray Luc Levasseur, and Julie Herrada (Marius Mason Support Committee).

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Radhika Singh with Aba Taylor: Earthly Playing Field | Brookline, MA
Jun
29
7:00 PM19:00

Radhika Singh with Aba Taylor: Earthly Playing Field | Brookline, MA

Join us at Brookline Booksmith to celebrate the release of Earthly Playing Field with author Radhika Singh, in conversation with Aba Taylor.

RSVP to let us know you're coming! Depending on the volume of responses, an RSVP may be required for entrance to the event. In the event that we reach capacity and have to close RSVPs, there will not be a waiting list.

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Radhika Singh in Conversation with Holiday Simmons | Hybrid Event at Charis Books and More
Jun
17
7:30 PM19:30

Radhika Singh in Conversation with Holiday Simmons | Hybrid Event at Charis Books and More

  • HYBRID - CHARIS BOOKS and VIRTUAL (map)
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Charis welcomes Radhika Singh in conversation with Holiday Simmons for a discussion of Earthly Playing Field, a novel that traces love and revolution in a crumbling world order.

This event takes place in person at Charis and on Crowdcast, Charis' virtual event platform. This event is free, but registration is required for virtual attendance. Click here to register to attend virtually. Please read the in-person event guidelines at the bottom of the Charis Books event page to be sure you can participate in the event.

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Strike While The Needle Is Hot Listening Session at Labor Notes | Chicago
Jun
13
4:30 PM16:30

Strike While The Needle Is Hot Listening Session at Labor Notes | Chicago

  • Hyatt Regency O'Hare Chicago - UNITED A (map)
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Audiophiles of the world, unite! Strikers in the 20th century sometimes made vinyl records to raise funds and get their message out. These artifacts offer a lively glimpse of grassroots worker culture in different times and places. Enjoy the music, browse the album art, and hear the history behind a few of these fascinating records collected in the new book Strike While the Needle Is Hot: A Discography of Worker’s Revolt (Common Notions Press, 2025).

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Points of Departure—A Harry Cleaver Reader Release Party | Chicago, IL
Jun
12
7:00 PM19:00

Points of Departure—A Harry Cleaver Reader Release Party | Chicago, IL

"Refuse work. Revolt against capitalism. Read Harry Cleaver. In that order. Repeat."

Join us as we welcome organizers and co-editors Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter to the store for a conversation with activist and Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power co-author James Tracy, on their new book Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver.

Points of Departure will be released on Common Notion Press’s new Class Compositions series in September 2026. This special edition and release coincides with the Labor Notes conference.

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Doing The Work: A Conversation about Art and Activism | NYC
Jun
8
7:00 PM19:00

Doing The Work: A Conversation about Art and Activism | NYC

  • Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (map)
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Join debut authors Rachel León, Radhika Singh, and Jules Wernersbach at The Bureau for a discussion about using literature as a vehicle to tell stories about the work that is to be done – how to roll up your sleeves, translate practice into prose, and envision (and enact) liberatory futures through writing.

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