Please note: this event will be held online on Zoom.
Step into the time machine and be transported back to the 2000s in this interactive online talk with Raju Rage. We'll explore radical zine-making and explore its intersection with the Queerhistorical context of dissidence and organising in London and beyond. We'll go through iconic zines from the period, share excerpts, and discuss their significance as tools for personal-political documentation amidst the ephemerality of social movements. You will have the opportunity to share your own perspectives, and create mini-zines too.
This journey follows a collaborative project of Raju’s with DUH (Department of Unruly Histories), which featured recorded conversations, zines, and a walking tour as ways to collectively unarchive the area of Hackney, home to a thriving squatting scene in the 2000's. Raju will introduce us to their concept of "un_archiving," a term they've explored in a recent Transformative Archives Conference in Germany and are actively working on through platforms like Desperate Livin.
They will guide us through topics discussed in their text and audio pieces - Zines, Scenes, Squats, Anti-racism, Gender Everything and the Kitchen Table: self organised community spaces, gentrification, spaces closing down, disappearing community kitchens, and migrant histories. This is an interactive talk. You’ll get to actively participate, share your thoughts, make some zines, and contribute to a collective exploration of un-archiving our social movements.
This event is part of Glasgow Zine Fest 2024
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About Raju Rage:
Raju Rage is proactive about using art, education and activism to forge creative survival. They explore the spaces and relationships between dis/connected bodies/beings, theory and practice, text and corporeality and aesthetics and the political substance.
Raju has a theirstory in activism, self and collective organised queer/ transgender/ people of colour movements and creative projects in London and beyond from which their politics and works draw on and from. They are a member of Collective Creativity arts collective and are a creative educator, and independent scholar with an interest in radical pedagogy.
Access information for this event:
There will be 495 attendees maximum. The event will have BSL interpretation, closed captioning and feature comfort breaks. During this event, attendees will participate in: whole group discussions, listening, hands-on activities, Q+A
This event will have BSL & Closed Captions.
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