When? Friday, October 9, 7–9pm (doors open 6:30pm)
Where? Stage Time Studios (2331 12th Ave, Harlem)
How much? $15 suggested donation
What to bring? BYOB for the afterparty
Join Mothership for a conversation with artist and writer Molly Crabapple on her acclaimed book Here Where We Live is Our Country, a history of the Jewish Labor Bund: the movement of Jewish radicals who organized against antisemitism and repression across the Russian Empire and Eastern Europe. Anti-Zionist, secular, and socialist, the Bund fought for worker's rights and Jewish cultural life, insisting that people could build lives that were just and culturally rich right where they are, without the demand to assimilate or emigrate.
What does a movement that was ultimately defeated still have to teach us about solidarity? Crabapple joins us to discuss the Bund's legacy of organizing across difference, its vision of belonging without ethnonationalist statehood, and what its struggles offer those thinking about liberation today.
The book will be available for purchase at the event.
Who is Molly? Molly Crabapple is an award-winning artist, writer, and activist. Besides her New York Times bestseller Here Where We Live Is Our Country, she is the author of the illustrated memoir Drawing Blood, the art book Devil in the Details, and several others books besides. Based in New York, Crabapple was an active member of Occupy Wall Street movement and has pioneered the genre of illustrated journalism.