Everyday Bonds: Solidarities from the Ground up [Radical Book Fair]

From friends to comrades, raves to rallies, the everyday bonds we form are the bedrock of movement building - how do we foster radical friendships and solidarities across divides and interests.

Jake Hall, Joel White and Nik from Plan C explore the political power of intimate & grassroots connections, hosted by Mairi from the Lighthouse bookshop.

Speakers:

Jake Hall is a freelance journalist, public speaker and author of The Art of Drag, and Shoulder to Shoulder: A Queer History of Solidarity, Coalition and Chaos They write extensively on queer culture, drag history, sex work and harm reduction, all through the lens of leftist politics and have worked in-house for publications including The Independent and MEL Magazine, an LA-based online culture magazine which delves deep into masculinity, sex and porn through a witty, light-hearted lens. When not chained to a laptop, Jake can be found partying topless in drag clubs and curating events as part of a training scheme with Sheffield venue DINA.

Joel White is a writer and researcher based in Glasgow, co-author of Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities. He is involved with groups in the city that organise around mutual aid, migrant solidarity, prison abolition and anti-racism. His writing has appeared in Guardian, Wire, Tribune and the LRB blog. He co-runs the record label GLARC.

Plan C is an anti-authoritarian communist organisation, building movement autonomy and organising against capital and state power. They have over a decade of uninterrupted activity. Plan C offers a place to collaborate and a non-dogmatic environment to be nurtured and supported in. Through campaign work, direct action, political education and coalition building, they aim to unmask and unleash the revolutionary potentials that exist around us. They recently published Guillotines.

Nik is a member of Plan C and an Edinburgh-based university worker teaching and researching global history and Marxism. His activism has focused on social reproduction support for the International Women's Strike, political education, workplace organizing, and international solidarity with the Kurdish Freedom Movement.