Please arrive 15 minutes early to register for the event and browse books. Buying a book before or after the event is a great way to support our project! Pre-register here.

The Philly No Appetite For Apartheid Campaign would like to invite interested member of the Community to learn about our No Appetite for Apartheid Campaign and how they can help promote the divestment from Israel in their local community! We are hosting a Community Crawl, where we canvass businesses, hang up flyers and posters in public areas and generally inform the public of the BDS campaign. This campaign will also spread Know Your Rights awareness posters as we also put up flyers directing people to immigrant resources and leave the Know Your Rights Red Cards at businesses we canvass

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Please arrive 15 minutes early to register for the event and browse books. Buying a book before or after the event is a great way to support the Making Worlds project!

Who gets to move freely, and who is policed for simply existing? This workshop/lecture explores the politics of moving through space—who is granted access, who is restricted, who is punished, and who enforces these boundaries. From racialized incidents like the Amy Cooper case, where a white woman weaponized the police against a Black man in Central Park, to the everyday gendered dynamics of manspreading on public transportation, to age restrictive curfews, and trans bathroom discourse, power is constantly negotiated through space. Not only is the state an arbiter of where and when you can be, but individuals are able to invoke the state at their behest to enforce their will. Why and how do people deem themselves as the arbiters of space?

Registration is required to attend. Please register here!

Join us for a teach-in on imperial techniques for concealing material truth, from the Nakba to the Andes.

In partnership with BI-CO FSP and Juntos.

Registration is required to attend! Register here.

This course aims at creating a conceptual map of Silvia Federici’s theories and activism from her manifesto on wages for housework to the contemporary conception of the commons. We will do a close reading of her canonic texts to define strugglers, struggles, and localities. Each class meeting starts with a set of questions and ends with a set of conclusions drawn from the discussion. The goal is tracing a decolonial trajectory in her work and assessing its adaptability to our surroundings. For each meeting we’ll read one portion of Federici’s Caliban and the Witch plus a more recent article in a chronological order on the following topics: sexuality, housework, violence, and the commons.

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Issue 2 of Long-Haul Magazine is OUT! 

We’ll have copies of Issue 2 for sale, free drinks, and a few words to share about our project. Join us at Making Worlds for a few hours before we move down the street to Abyssinia. Catch us at the bar after 7PM if you can’t make it earlier!

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Join Philly Socialists as we screen Here and Elsewhere, a 1976 essay film co-directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Incorporating footage of Palestinian freedom fighters from an unfinished documentary commissioned by the PLO, the film cuts between scenes in Lebanon, Jordan, and the West Bank and more abstract sequences filmed in France to critically reflect on the role of media, the filmmaking process, propaganda, and the responsibility of the artist.

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Join us in celebrating the release of the Assata’s House Zine with a special screening of the Assata Shakur documentary, followed by a deep, liberatory conversation with the zine’s contributing writers. This event invites us to not only reflect on Assata’s life and ideology, but also to step into our own roles as freedom dreamers, world-builders, and active participants in collective liberation.

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It never ended with us. Literary fiction has long shaped our cultural conversation around domestic violence. Since Colleen Hoover’s novel It Ends With Us and its recent film adaptation have set the spotlight once again on this evergreen issue, how has the conversation changed? Join us for a panel discussion featuring Natalie Adler, Kristen Martin, and Sarah Wang.

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Join a panel of organizers from The W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School and other leading abolitionist organizers and thinkers in reflecting back on the lessons of the rebellion five years ago, and what collective study and struggles means in our present moment.

Registration is required to attend! Register here.

This course aims at creating a conceptual map of Silvia Federici’s theories and activism from her manifesto on wages for housework to the contemporary conception of the commons. We will do a close reading of her canonic texts to define strugglers, struggles, and localities. Each class meeting starts with a set of questions and ends with a set of conclusions drawn from the discussion. The goal is tracing a decolonial trajectory in her work and assessing its adaptability to our surroundings. For each meeting we’ll read one portion of Federici’s Caliban and the Witch plus a more recent article in a chronological order on the following topics: sexuality, housework, violence, and the commons.

Please register for this event here!

This study group is an invitation for care workers and care practitioners to come together in the pursuit of understanding the structures that undergird our systems of care, specifically the medical-industrial complex.

The Inflamed Study Group is the second part of an ongoing series. New participants are always welcome!

Please register here!

Join us for a book talk with author Jillian Berman, Philly Council Member Kendra Brooks, and local activists Dr. Jalil Bishop and Justice Passé.

Cosponsored by Debt Collective.

In Sunk Cost, Jillian Berman uses interviews with borrowers, policymakers and historical research to show how a policy aimed at helping low- and middle-income Americans turned into one of the biggest consumer finance challenges of our time. One of the borrowers featured is Philadelphia’s own Kendra Brooks. Join Jillian, Councilmember Brooks and Philadelphia-based student debt organizers  Dr. Jalil Bishop and Justice Passé to discuss the policies that got us to this point and how we can usher in a better future.

Registration is required to attend! Register here.

This course aims at creating a conceptual map of Silvia Federici’s theories and activism from her manifesto on wages for housework to the contemporary conception of the commons. We will do a close reading of her canonic texts to define strugglers, struggles, and localities. Each class meeting starts with a set of questions and ends with a set of conclusions drawn from the discussion. The goal is tracing a decolonial trajectory in her work and assessing its adaptability to our surroundings. For each meeting we’ll read one portion of Federici’s Caliban and the Witch plus a more recent article in a chronological order on the following topics: sexuality, housework, violence, and the commons.

Registration is required to attend! Please register here.

Join us for an evening of poetry, art, music, and conversation to celebrate the launch of Afuerismos, a poetry collection by Daniela Johannes. Blending poetic performance with live music, the author will read from her work and reflect on the creative and political roots of the book. The evening will feature a critical engagement by Cuban poet and scholar Jamila Medina (Brown University), and a conversation with the Chilean visual artist behind the book’s cover, Cristina Arancibia.

Registration is required for this event. Please register here!*

Join us at Making Worlds Bookstore in highlighting the interconnectedness of liberation struggles from Philly to Palestine. The event will fundraise for 2025 Black Mama’s Bail Out. A Librarians and Archivists with Palestine 2025 “One Book, Many Communities” event.

Donations made through this registration page support Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center! Funds for Black Mama's Bail Out will be collected at the event. Donations to Making Worlds allow us to continue to provide affordable event space to the broader community and assist with our programming efforts.

Join us for the book launch of An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing with author Wendy Elisheva Somerson (Wes) in conversation with filmmaker Irit Reinheimer.

In a time when antisemitism is being weaponized and used to justify genocide against Palestinians, Wes's book is unapologetically anti-Zionist, firmly rooted in Jewish spiritual values, and presents a liberatory model for Jewish healing.

Registration is required to attend this event. Please register here!

Join us for the book launch of Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection with author Corinna Lain in conversation with Nicholas Kahn-Fogel.

Lethal injection is not what people think, and most Americans still have no idea what the government is doing in their name. It’s time they found out.

Registration is required to attend. Please register here!

Registration is required to attend! Register here.

This course aims at creating a conceptual map of Silvia Federici’s theories and activism from her manifesto on wages for housework to the contemporary conception of the commons. We will do a close reading of her canonic texts to define strugglers, struggles, and localities. Each class meeting starts with a set of questions and ends with a set of conclusions drawn from the discussion. The goal is tracing a decolonial trajectory in her work and assessing its adaptability to our surroundings. For each meeting we’ll read one portion of Federici’s Caliban and the Witch plus a more recent article in a chronological order on the following topics: sexuality, housework, violence, and the commons.

Please register for this event here!

This study group is an invitation for care workers and care practitioners to come together in the pursuit of understanding the structures that undergird our systems of care, specifically the medical-industrial complex.

The Inflamed Study Group is the second part of an ongoing series. New participants are always welcome!

We'd like to invite parents and caregivers (and anyone else who feels seen in this space) into a community conversation around abolitionist solutions to our current common parenting/caretaking struggles, with guidance from the book We Grow The World Together: Parenting Towards Abolition. The conversation will be led by our wonderful cooperative member, Evisa. 

No pre-reading required. Just open minds and hearts.

Registration is required to attend!

Join short-story writer Gemini Wahhaj and Becky Tuch, editor of LitMag news for the book launch of Gemini's short-story collection Katy Family. Combining the powers of speculation of Kazuo Ishiguro and the sharp social critique of Aravind Adiga, this collection offers readers the ultimate experience of global fiction, stories bound and shaped by Katy, Texas, a place made by oil and capitalism. The stories weave between Bangladeshi characters experiencing the reality of the immigrant experience in America and those still in Bangladesh, wishing for the mythos of the American dream. 

Registration is required for this event.

Join us for Independent Bookstore Day at Making Worlds! Saturday, April 26th from 12 PM - 7 PM.

We have an exciting lineup of authors visiting the space on Independent Bookstore Day to read from their favorite works, discuss the importance of indie bookstores, Q&A with the audience and sign books. 

Register here!

Registration is required to attend! Please register here.

This study group is an invitation for care workers and care practitioners to come together in the pursuit of understanding the structures that undergird our systems of care, specifically the medical-industrial complex. Over the course of four sessions, we will read sections of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, to understand the impact of racial capitalism on our social and collective bodies.

In a world defined by conflict and struggle, Sudan stands as a testament to resilience, hope, and unyielding spirit of its people. Join us for an immersive evening as we present "Sudan through Film,” an event that sheds light on the diverse narratives emerging from Sudan. Through powerful storytelling, we will explore the complexities of Sudan's past and present, fostering empathy and inspiring support for a brighter future.

Registration is required. Please register for this event here!

Join Minneapolis author Lyn Corelle for a discussion of her 2023 anthology Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest!, a book of queer smut, theory, and history riffing on their viral campaign to take over a city-owned golf course and convert it to a cruising ground. Lyn will read from the anthology and discuss the book and broader efforts to realize a free queer sexuality. Sophie Lewis (Enemy Feminisms, Abolish the Family) will join for a group discussion!

Please register for this event here.

This study group is an invitation for care workers and care practitioners to come together in the pursuit of understanding the structures that undergird our systems of care, specifically the medical-industrial complex. Over the course of four sessions, we will read sections of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, to understand the impact of racial capitalism on our social and collective bodies.

Registration is required. Please register here.

Join Julia Alekseyeva and Jack Bratich for a discussion on Antifascism and the Avant-Garde. Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s argues that film can be a powerful weapon in the fight against fascism, creating what Japanese philosophers called a “self-revolution of everyday life.” This event will also feature a screening of a short film by Matsumoto Toshio.

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Join us for a conversation between Samidoun and the Abolition School on how US and Palestinian settler-colonialism carceral apparatuses function, how they differ, and how we can abolish them. As the movement for Palestinian liberation stands at a crossroads in the US, the Palestinian resistance continues to extract concessions against the entity. At the same time, new legal strategies and Cop Cities continue to be built as counter insurgency. Where do we go from here?

Please register for this event here.

In Skyscraper Jails, scholars and organizers Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti detail how progressive forces in New York City appropriated the rhetoric of social movements and social justice to promise “downsized” and “humane" jails. The principal advocates of these new jails were not right-wing politicians, but prominent city activists and progressive non-profit organizations. Join the authors for a discussion of this unique moment for anti-jail activism and what it means for moving forward.

Please register for this event here.

Join Philly Socialists and South Philly Autonomous Cinema for a screening of Fertile Memory (1980), the feature debut of director Michel Khleifi. Lyrically interweaving documentary and narrative, Khleifi lovingly creates portraits of two Palestinian women, Sahar and Romia, whose individual struggles both mirror and challenge each other in the shared political landscape that has torn apart their lives.

All donations will go toward Gaza Champions and the Sameer Project.

SPAC registration can be found here.

Registration through Making Worlds is also appreciated! Donations through this link help us provide free event space to the broader community and sustain our programming efforts. We deeply appreciate your support!