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!

AABC is a place to gather together with fellow creative minds, culture workers & critical thinkers to connect on & center anticapitalism.

Fill out our quick questionnaire here to help shape AABC by sharing your perspective & stay updated by providing your preferred email. If an Instagram user, please follow along at _@AABC_PDX_ as an additional way to stay informed.

AABC is a free community space for artists in Portland, OR. 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 is expansive & can mean sooo many things (don't let the label intimidate you from joining). We welcome folks who are only able to attend once but offers sustained meetings for those able & interested in more consistently building community together.

With support from the Precipice Fund and Portland Arts Project Grant from RACC we're able to provided free/pay what you can books as well as have funds to go towards collaborating on art offerings to help us metabolize our readings.

Books AABC read together in 2024 include: “The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins” by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, “Let This Radicalize You” by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba (You can find unlimited copies of the audiobook on the libraries website/ libby app)