Anticapitalism Artists Book Club (AABC)

Hello my fellow PDX artists!

Want to be in community reading radical books and having radical conversations? Well anticapitalism artists book club (AABC) was designed with you in mind!

Fill out our quick questionnaire here to help shape AABC by sharing your perspective and stay informed by providing your preferred email.

If an Instagram user please follow along at _@AABC_PDX_ to stay in the know. The questionnaire gathers participant emails to send out updates so you can stay in the know that way as well.

AABC is a place to gather together with fellow creative minds, critical thinkers, cultural workers, magic makers to discuss books centering anticapitalism. We’ll be meeting in person (masks required and provided if in need) for 2 hours every 2 weeks starting in late February through late May. Our time together will be spent discussing our chosen book and connecting with fellow book club members. This group is free to join and for folks in Portland who identify as an artist. The Portland part is specific because we'll be meeting in various locations throughout the city (tbd, based on the groups needs). The "artist" part can mean sooo many things (lowercase "a" here is purposeful. Please don't let the label intimidate you from joining) and it's expansiveness is a beautiful aspect thats intentionally aligned with anticapitalism.

*2/11/24 UPDATE:* Our first meeting is scheduled for Friday, 2/23 from 6:30-8:30pm at the IPRC located at 318 Main St. (masks required and provided if in need) where we'll be discussing pages 1-111 (aka through "Pod mapping for mutual aid").

*2/6/24 UPDATE:* The results are in! Our 1st book is "The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs" by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

*1/27/24 UPDATE:* Check out our 6 book options here! Our questionnaire is where you can select your top 3 options so we can collectively decide our first AABC book together.