The Freedom Shop Aotearoa

 A community screening of anarcha-feminist filmmaker Lizzie Borden's dystopian masterpiece, which explores themes of race, queerness, intersectional feminism, police brutality and surveillance, and the role of independent radio in political revolution. Fierce, intelligent guerrilla filmmaking from the depths of the Reagan era, which invites conversations about radical change, and has relevance to tino rangatiratanga and decolinisation movements in our own hapori whānui. We would love to see you there! WHEN: 7pm Wednesday 28th May. WHERE: 13 Garrett Street, Te Aro, Te Whanganui-a-Tara.

Disrupt the “ imperialist-white-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy ” power structure was what bell hooks said was needed, and that is what she did. She died this week but her words, her books, and her writings will continue to be part of the tools used to disrupt and dismantle. We need to keep reading and listening to those words, and discussing them - they are powerful. At the Freedom Shop we have two zines with bell hooks' writing: one is ' Understanding Patriarchy ' and the other is an anthology we created ourselves: " bell hooks - a sample of writings by bell hooks to entice... ' We put together the anthology several years ago to try and ensure more people become keen to sample bell hooks' writings. The zine includes three articles: ' Teaching to Transgress: Paulo Freire ', ' Killing Rage: Militant Resistance ' and ' Feminist Class Struggle '. Killing Rage opens with the wonderful sentence, ' I am writing this essay sitting besid...