When playing with the term shadow library, a concept often used to describe guerilla databases of contents that are otherwise not readily accessible, the out-of-the-shadow library claims the prominence of knowledge that is often obscured, stigmatised and pushed into the margins of cultural consciousness. Following Lavanderia a Vapore’s dramaturgical line from the Dark Matters Winter Festival, through the Spring Rolls Spring Festival and towards the On Mobilisation Symposium, the books and references proposed here, take the reader on a path in and out of the shadows: to dig in and immerse in the darkness and resurface seeing the present and the future through other lenses. Specially designed chapters guide the reader through an open-ended pathway, through themes of blackness, darkness, archives, temporalities, the body, desiring and mobilising in collective action. The library, co-curated by Nora Book&Coffee, calls to join in protest: in reading, pleasure and rest to discover the collective dimension of dreaming and to craft alternative visions for the present world.
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DARKNESS AS ORGANIC MATTER
Elogio del margine-Scrivere al buio,
bell hooks.
Memorie della piantagione,
Grada Kilomba.
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (eng),
Christina Sharpe.
J’accuse,
Francesca Albanese con Christian Elia.
HISTORIES WITHOUT ARCHIVES
Catene di gloria,
Nana Kwame.
Silenziosa sfiorisce la pelle,
Tlotlo Tsaamase.
Il Re Ombra,
Maaza Menghiste.
L’ascaro. Una storia anticoloniale,
Gebreyesus Hailu.
Non scusarti per quello che hai fatto,
Mahmoud Darwish.
THE BODY AS A MANIFEST, AN INSTRUMENT FOR BATTLE
La potenza femminista,
Veronica Gago.
Mariele, Presente!,
A. Gazzera.
Il luogo della parola, Djamila Ribeiro.
Le cattive,
Camila Sosa Villada.
GIVING NAME TO THAT, WHAT SEPARATES US FROM EACH OTHER
Ultima fermata Gaza,
Ilan Pappè e Noam Chomsky.
Mediterraneo blues. Musiche, malinconia postcoloniale, pensieri marittimi,
Iain Chambers.
La questione mediterranea, Iain Chambers con Marta Cariello.
Terre di confine. La frontera,
Gloria Anzaldúa.
Narrazioni dell’estinzione, Elvia Wilk.
REWRITING THE PRESENT: INTERSECTIONAL AND DECOLONIAL FEMINISM
Decolonialità e privilegio,
Rachele Borghi.
Femminismi queer transnazionali,
Paola Bacchetta e Laura Fantone.
Rafia Zakaria.
Lacrime bianche, ferite scure,
Ruby Hamad.
Queste terre selvagge oltre lo steccato,
Bayo Akomolafe.
Il postumano,
Rosi Braidotti.
Ecofemminismo in Italia,
Franca Marcomin, Laura Cima.
TIME-TRAVELLING: UNDOING MEMORY DESIGN FUTURES
Un dettaglio minore,
Adania Shibli.
Amatissima,
Toni Morrison
Sotto la falce,
Jesmyn Ward.
Giù nel cieco mondo,
Jesmyn Ward.
Black Women Temporal (eng),
creato da Rasheedah Phillips.
PRACTICING FREEDOM: EDUCATION AND TRANSGRESSION
La scuola ha riaperto come dopo una nevicata. Pandemia, classe, inefficienza strategica,
Marzia Dalfini, Maddalena Fragnito & Sara Leghissa.
La pedagogia degli oppressi,
Paulo Freire.
‘Dear colleagues, I ask you to act like adults’: minority youth and their political participation‘ (eng),
Anna Suni & Reetta Mietola.
SEEDING FUTURE ECOLOGIES
Undrowned. Lezioni di femminismo nero dai mammiferi marini,
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Contronature: teorie e pratiche di ecologia politica,
Matteo Bronzi e Caterina Ciarleglio.
Ecologie native,
Emanuela Borgnine.
Ecologia della libertà,
Murray Bookchin.
Biofera, l’ambiente che abitiamo,
Ilaria Agostini, Giovanni Attili, Enzo Scandurra.
BREWING POTIONS, BECOMING MONSTERS
Pharmako poeia,
Dale Pendell.
Il paesaggio è un mostro,
Annalisa Metta.
Metamorfosi,
Rosi Braidotti.
Animali si diventa,
Federica Timeto.
MEETING EACH OTHER IN ACTION: CULTIVATING JOY AND PLEASURE
Ecologia erotica: sesso, libido e collasso del desiderio,
Dominic Pettman.
Manifesto pisolini,
Virginia Cafaro.
Rest is resistance (eng),
Tricia Hersey.
Camminare,
Henry D.Thoreau.
Camminare è un gesto sovversivo,
Erling Kagge.
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The library is not finished. If you have books, articles and other references to recommend, send an email with your suggestions to documentazione@lavanderiaavapore.eu
Thank you!!