Making Worlds Books

Bookstore-social center for abolition, autonomy, ecological self-determination, & affirmation of worlds imagined and made by Black, Brown, Indigenous liberation

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Join us today, Sunday November 24th at 4p—for a book launch and discussion of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.

Advance registration is appreciated. Link in bio.

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Save the date, Dec 4 at 7pm EST, Online book launch In Defense of Common Life: The Political Thought of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar. Tune in via the Common Notions YouTube channel. Registration in bio is appreciated.

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Join us on Friday Nov 22nd at 6pm for an engaging evening of poetry & conversation bringing together Latinx voices from Mexico & Philadelphia to explore creative resistance, moderated by Daniela Johannes. Capital and the City: A Poetic and critical talk on capital and urban life.

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Join us this Thursday Nov 21st at Making Worlds, 6 PM - 7:30 PM for a reading session and conversation with Julia Steele Allen author of Origin Gate: Book 1 of the Mother Worlds Trilogy.

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Join us on the Common Notions YouTube for a very special livestream.

The Captive Maternal and Family Abolition: Envisioning Revolutionary Care
Joy James and M. E. O’Brien in dialogue, with Lara Sheehi

Monday, November 18th at 5 PM ET

Register at link in bio.

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Save the date—Sunday November 24th at 4p—for a book launch and discussion of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.

Advance registration is appreciated. Link in bio.

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Join us this Friday for a reading and conversation between the two authors Max Fox and Madeline Lane-McKinley's about their new book, fag/hag (Rosa Press, 2024).

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See you this afternoon, Philly, for Trieste Racconta Basaglia—a film by Erika Rossi on the mental health care revolution in Italy, with an introduction by Sasha Warren, author of Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt.

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On Saturday, November 16, 4:30p onward, Full Spectrum Features presents Our Right to Gaze, an annually curated touring anthology of short films by emerging Black filmmakers.

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Spend your Saturday with the Poor People's Army, and learn how the organized poor are using the power of community to stay alive–because basic human rights aren’t up for negotiation.

Advance registration appreciated. Link in bio.

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Come out this evening and engage with the powerful narratives that reflect the realities of life in Sudan. We will screen the film Heroic Bodies, which highlights the struggles and resilience of Sudanese women.

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Trieste Racconta Basaglia: A film by Erika Rossi on the mental health care revolution in Italy—with an introduction by author Sasha Warren.

Sunday, November 10, 2024 2:00pm.

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Coming up this week: Takeover! A Human Rights Approach to Housing: Book Talk with Cheri Honkala from Poor People's Army

Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 4:30 PM 6:00 PM. Advance registration appreciated. Link in bio.

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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.

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Save the date for a very special screening of Trieste Racconta Basaglia, a documentary film about the revolutionaries who replaced Italy's prison-like psychiatric hospitals with community care—with Sasha Warren, author of Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt.

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We're super excited for Ayesha Raees and noam keim to be in conversation tomorrow evening.

COINING A WISHING TOWER is a poetic epic about death, grief, and the afterlife.

Copies of THE LAND IS HOLY by noam keim are also back in stock and ready for you to take home.

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Join us for a timely conversation about border politics and abolition Borders produce and are produced by carceral, racist, classist, sexist, and xenophobic regimes. Border Abolition Now demands transformative politics to dismantle these systems of oppression.

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This Saturday, join the reading and discussion of COINING A WISHING TOWER, a poetic epic about death, grief, and the afterlife—with Ayesha Raees, poet and editor at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and noam keim, author of THE LAND IS HOLY.

Registration link in bio.

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We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated, and mission-oriented Bookstore Manager and Book Buyer to join our collaborative operations team. Is it you? Scope out the details in the link in our bio!

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Happy solstice, folks! We are expanding our summer hours as of today. Please do come through and share your summer with us. We have a great season ahead with new books coming in daily and events to educate, entertain, build community, and deepen our relations.