Nothing to Lose but Our Fear

Nothing to Lose but Our Fear: A Conversation on Resistance and Persistence in Dangerous Times

Join us for an evening of timely and vital conversation about sustaining ourselves and our movements for social justice and social change in dark times. Author and activist Fiona Jeffries will be in conversation with Fazeela Jiwa followed by a facilitated discussion. Fiona will talk about her recent book (Nothing to Lose but Our Fear: Resistance in Dangerous Times) and the important lessons it offers about confronting fear, sustaining hope, and building movements capable of changing the world. Copies of Fiona’s book will be for sale at the event. Free and open to all!

Fazeela Jiwa is a writer, editor, and facilitator who has worked in public and alternative education, co-operative housing, and sexual assault crisis work. Her published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction considers complicity with, and resistance to, representations of race and gender in cultural productions. Reach her at www.fazeelajiwa.com

Fiona Jeffries is a researcher, writer, and teacher working in the autonomist feminist tradition. Her writing and political interests focus on questions of precarity, repression, resistance, commoning and care amidst the global enclosures. She has published on a wide range of topics including political violence, cultural theory, feminist politics, media and gender violence, and insecurity culture. Jeffries’ 2015 book, Nothing to Lose but Our Fear, was published by Between the Lines in Canada and Zed Books in the U.K. Find her online @fionajeffries