07/09/2024
July 15th at - join us!
* Mahogany L Browne [ was born in Oakland, California but has been based in Brooklyn, NY for over 15 years. A strong, black woman, Browne is unapologetic in her work as a spoken word poet, author, and activist. She uses her personal experience with addiction, racism, s*xism, and oppression to inspire her own brand of shameless, authentic work. Browne’s spoken word performances create a platform through poetry for women and girls to feel empowered and heard. Browne is the publisher of Penmanship Books, curator of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Friday Night Slam, founder of the Women Writers of Color Reading Room, and the director of Black Lives Matter at Pratt Institute.]
* Jive Poetic [ received his BA in Media Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and his MFA from Pratt Institute. A writer, organizer, and educator, his work has been showcased on TVONE’s Lexus Verses and Flow, PBS News Hour, and BET. He is the recipient of the John Morning Award for Art and Service, the founder of Insurgent Poets Society, Carnival Slam: Cultural Exchange, and the co-founder of the Brooklyn Poetry Slam. Jive is the Nuyorican Poets Café Friday Night Slam curator, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. ]
* Holden Taylor [ is organizer with Brooklyn Eviction Defense Tenant Union, a proud member of the Crown Heights Tenant Union, a Marxist Unity Group (a Democratic Socialists of America caucus) member and, an adjunct professor and a PhD candidate at the City University of New York Graduate Center studying housing financialization and political economy. ]
* Mia Halsey [ Mia has participated in labor and tenant union struggles with social work graduate students, service workers, and her neighbors. She is a writer and a cultural worker insofar as s*x is culture. ]
Against Bourgeois Art is a reading series centering the cultural work of movement organizer with a focus on revolution, de-alienation, communalism, abolition and whose art uncovers the veil to our material reality rather than obfuscating it further with metaphysical illusions and liberal subjectivism.
