Join us for our in-person monthly reading group!
May's in-person reading group will be led by Dr. Abeera Khan. Fascism, in the current conjuncture, arrives through liberal policy and procedure. This reading group engages with feminist, post and de-colonial and Marxist critiques of liberalism and appraisals of fascism to question the notion of fascism as a ‘rupture’ from the liberal social order. Together, we will attend to liberalism’s imperial history and its innate racial and gendered exclusions to understand why liberalism is not fascism's rival but its prefiguration.
Texts will include The Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe and Liberalism as Fascism’s Prefiguration by Abeera Khan.
Print-outs will be provided as well as teas and light snacks. Tickets are Pay What You Can; all proceeds will help us continue funding the work we do.
Schedule
5.30pm - Doors open (snacks + teas)
6.00pm - Group reading + Discussion
7.00pm - Break
7.10 - Group reading + Discussion
8pm - Final reflections + Close
This event is part of our monthly reading series. Through mid-month gatherings we collectively read and study decolonial ideas and history, building community along the way. Each month we will explore pressing questions from a decolonial lens, offering space to think critically about the challenge of dismantling the enduring legacies of colonialism today.
Venue and Physical Accessibility
The event will be held at Whitechapel Gallery in the Assembly Room on the ground floor. The closest stations are Aldgate East (District and Hammersmith & City lines) as well as Whitechapel (District, Hammersmith & City, and Elizabeth lines). The Assembly Room is wheelchair accessible and there is also an accessible bathroom and baby changing facilities on this floor. If you have any accessibility needs, please let us know in advance and we will do our best to accommodate them. For more information go to https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit-2/access/.
Dr. Abeera Khan’s scholarship and pedagogy focus on empire's mobilisations of gender and sexuality and the queer, feminist movements that emerge in confrontation and response. She has published in, among other outlets, The Hythe, The Contrapuntal, Feminist Review, and Feminist Formations, and co-edited ‘Abolitions: Writing Against Abandonment’, a special issue of Wasafiri. She is a Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality at SOAS, University of London.
The Decolonial Centre is a political education platform committed to spreading anti-colonial and decolonial perspectives on history, social theory, and current affairs. We deliver our work via our Newscast episodes, Decolonial Encycopaedia, and community events. By fostering solidarity and collaboration, we aim to amplify the powerful movements at the forefront of challenging and dismantling the enduring legacies of colonialism today. Our vision is to help inspire a new intergenerational cohort of activists that pushes for systems change and create links between communities in struggle.
(Header art: Kyuyo Ishikawa, After the 9.11 Incident I, 2004)