Sunday, DAY DATE @ 12:30PM – Free
Radical Educators Book Club
Join a group of educators engaged in inquiry of critical texts for a meetup and collaborative discussion of pedagogical values and practices.
Please contact bluestockingsraded@gmail.com for more information.

Reading: For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood by Christopher Emdin

NYC Black & Pink & the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project would like to invite you to our afternoon letter writing. What can you bring? Writing materials, stamps if you want! We can always use more postage.
Help us in alleviating the isolation of prison!

Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a stopgap measure, but the jobs never came back, and the “emergency food system” became an industry. In Big Hunger, Andrew Fisher takes a critical look at the business of hunger and offers a new vision for the anti-hunger movement.

Kundalini Yoga is also called the Yoga of Awareness. It combines the physical practice of Asanas with Pranayama (breathing) and Meditation/Chanting – it targets the whole body system (nervous system, glands, mental faculties, chakras) to develop awareness and consciousness, strength and flexibility.

Everybody is welcome, no previous knowledge of Yoga is necessary. Please bring a Yoga mat and possibly a blanket and a shawl.

Shortly after she moved to New York, from her native Switzerland in 1988, Ursula Scherrer started exploring different styles of Yoga for her own spiritual and physical well being before she did her first teacher training in 2002 and has been teaching ever since. In addition to her skills and expertise as a Yoga teacher (Hatha and Kundalini Yoga) she is also a Pranayama Healer and certified Qi Gong instructor.

For more information please contact Ursula Scherrer: ursula.scherrer@gmail.com

Author David Clawson will be reading from his debut novel My Fairy Godmother is a Drag Queen to discuss LGBT literature, his personal journey to self-discovery, and the inspiration behind this comical and fun modern take on the classic Cinderella’s story. He will also be showing the book trailer, hosting a brief Q&A, and giving away five autographed copies of his book.

Are you polyamorous? Curious about non-monogamy? Want to hang out with like-minded people in a no-pressure setting? Come to Open Love NY’s Poly Chai! We welcome anybody who is interested or participates in consensual open relationships. Come solo or with partner(s), metamour(s), and any loved ones.

Reproductive Justice is a comprehensive introduction to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender reproductive politics. For example, a low-income, physically disabled woman with no viable public transportation, healthcare, or living wages faces structural obstacles contoured by white supremacy. Putting the lived experiences of women of color at the center through a human rights analysis, Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger show how reproductive justice contrasts with the pro-choice/anti-abortion debates that dominate political conflict.

Long-time comrades in disability community, both Sunaura Taylor and Eli Clare have just released new books. Sunaura’s Beasts of Burden is about disability and animal liberation; Eli’s Brilliant Imperfection is about disability, cure, and environmental justice. These two books and their authors speak to each other in deep ways. Come be part of the conversation as Sunaura and Eli read from and talk about their new work.

The Forum for Feminist Discussion of Masculinity is a safe space to discuss the gendered expectations placed on men and boys in a patriarchal society, and how these have affected, and continue to affect, all of us. The forum is open to all, inclusive of gender and level of knowledge of the subject matter. Each month, we will discuss a theme, which will be posted in the facebook group -www.facebook.com/groups/feministdiscussionofmasculinity/

Join us every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month to learn ukulele! All skill levels are welcome. We will teach folks how to play songs from different historic cultural and social movements. We will try to focus on music which is consistent with a vision of collective liberation and solidarity. The bookstore has one communal ukulele that anyone can use, but folks are encouraged to bring their own ukulele to the workshop. We will provide some supplementary materiel for practicing the music and studying its social significance. Some of the music we will look at includes the blues of Bessie Smith, Brazilian bossa nova, French goguettes, the nueva cancíon of Víctor Jara, and others. We do not know everything, but we will try to pass on what we do know, and to help you flourish as a musician and human.

This is the final reading following our Spanish creative writing workshop series. This workshop was co-organized between Claudia Prado and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and generously funded by Poets & Writers. All readers are Latinx domestic workers who care & clean for NYC, and are on the frontlines of organizing for domestic worker and immigrant justice.

Local author and meditation teacher Rifka Kreiter launches her new book, Home Free: Adventures of a Child of the Sixties (She Writes Press, May 16, 2017). Home Free is the true story of Rifka’s life on the front lines of 1960’s biggest moments and movements, from Civil Rights marches in Mississippi with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to activism with a radical underground feminist newspaper, antiwar demonstrations in San Diego, and est seminars in Manhattan. A compelling and insightful look into one woman’s journey to claim her freedom, heal her wounds, and find her voice during one of America’s most transformative eras.

Kundalini Yoga is also called the Yoga of Awareness. It combines the physical practice of Asanas with Pranayama (breathing) and Meditation/Chanting – it targets the whole body system (nervous system, glands, mental faculties, chakras) to develop awareness and consciousness, strength and flexibility.

Everybody is welcome, no previous knowledge of Yoga is necessary. Please bring a Yoga mat and possibly a blanket and a shawl.

Shortly after she moved to New York, from her native Switzerland in 1988, Ursula Scherrer started exploring different styles of Yoga for her own spiritual and physical well being before she did her first teacher training in 2002 and has been teaching ever since. In addition to her skills and expertise as a Yoga teacher (Hatha and Kundalini Yoga) she is also a Pranayama Healer and certified Qi Gong instructor.

For more information please contact Ursula Scherrer: ursula.scherrer@gmail.com

Political stress has entered all our lives in an extreme way. “SITTING STILL” author, Jan Bidwell, will explain how meditation strengthens and calms our overly active minds. Jan has been studying, practicing and teaching meditating for over 30 years. She will discuss her social and political activism; running for NJ State Senate; successfully battling cancer and current medical reports on meditation.
Jan understands how working with attention on a daily basis greatly enhances all aspects of life.
(Brief meditation w/chocolate for ‘savor’ session.) Q&A.

WOMEN’S/TRANS’ POETRY JAM & OPEN MIKE Hosted by Vittoria Repetto—the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the Lower East Side—the jam has showcased the famous, the infamous, the unknown for over a decade. Come out and deliver (up to) 8 minutes of your poetry, prose, songs and spoken word. Visit vittoriarepetto.wordpress.com for more information.

Open mike ( for women & trans only) – sign-up at 7 pm
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.

Art Hoe Collective presents an open mic and mixer championing people of color. The event will include spoken word poetry and musical performances. Suggested donation $5.

Latino City explores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts into New England’s first Latinx-majority city. Pushed to migrate by U.S. imperialism in Latin America, poor and working-class Latinxs then had to reckon with the segregation, joblessness, disinvestment, and profound stigma that plagued U.S. cities during the crisis era. For many Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, there was no “American Dream” awaiting them in Lawrence; instead, Latinxs fought for their rights in the ruins of industrial America.

Kundalini Yoga is also called the Yoga of Awareness. It combines the physical practice of Asanas with Pranayama (breathing) and Meditation/Chanting – it targets the whole body system (nervous system, glands, mental faculties, chakras) to develop awareness and consciousness, strength and flexibility.

Everybody is welcome, no previous knowledge of Yoga is necessary. Please bring a Yoga mat and possibly a blanket and a shawl.

Shortly after she moved to New York, from her native Switzerland in 1988, Ursula Scherrer started exploring different styles of Yoga for her own spiritual and physical well being before she did her first teacher training in 2002 and has been teaching ever since. In addition to her skills and expertise as a Yoga teacher (Hatha and Kundalini Yoga) she is also a Pranayama Healer and certified Qi Gong instructor.

For more information please contact Ursula Scherrer: ursula.scherrer@gmail.com

Julia Fiedorczuk is one of Poland’s most creative and outspoken women poets. With a dry wit reminiscent of Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska, Fiedorczuk’s work tries to shift our perspectives by bringing out the crucial role of nature and biology in our everyday experiences. Along with translator, poet, and scholar Karen Kovacik, Fiedorczuk will discuss and read from Oxygen, her first full collection translated into English.

Bringing together the medical, social, psychological, and political aspects of being transgender today in the United States, “You’re in the Wrong Bathroom!”: And 20 Other Myths About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People unpacks the twenty-one most common myths about transgender people. Authors Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, a psychiatrist, and Laura A. Jacobs, LCSW-R, a psychotherapist, address myths about trans identity (“all trans people are ‘trapped in the wrong body’”), sex and relationships (“most trans people do sex work and have HIV”), health and safety (“trans people are mentally ill and therapy can change them”), and history and community (“trans people and feminists don’t get along”).