Fighting Supremacy Within Our Movements, as Portrayed in Working-Class Memoir and Fiction

Tongo-Eisen Martin, Mike Dunn, Ananda Esteva, Jenny Worley

Fascists, authoritarians, and capitalists exploit existing prejudices and bigotries within marginalized communities to divide them and get them fighting among each other. They exploit these bigotries to disrupt their movements and their solidarity, and to reduce their effectiveness. In this workshop, several working-class writers will read excerpts from their books, and then discuss how their books address the bigotries and prejudices within particular marginalized communities, particularly in otherwise progressive communities, and how activists or characters in their books worked to overcome these bigotries. And they will discuss how these experiences apply to conditions today.

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4:30 pm
6:00 pm
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201
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This Unruly Witness: June Jordan’s Legacy
2:30 pm
4:00 pm
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201
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Memoir as Queer Resistance
10:30 am
12:00 pm
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320
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