We’re hosting a friendly chat and cooking lesson with our long-term friend, the chef dey call @sisterwomansaf !
📍 @BrixtonPK
🗓️ 24 May
🕐 3.30pm
HARD FOOD FOR HARD TIMES is our response to the rising costs of cooking and the influx of overpriced cooking clubs. Reconnecting with culture through food was never meant to be expensive.
On 24 May, we’ll learn about hard food as a way people looked after themselves and each other within restricted conditions.
Join us and we’ll teach you how to make 2-3 low energy, adaptable recipes using economical ingredients. You’ll be fed and take home bits for packed lunch for the next day!
Get your heavily subsided tickets and find out how to contribute to the meal at the link in our bio 🫶🏾
ESSENTIAL READING → Beyond Survival edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Read this if you are familiar with transformative justice language but want practical exercises, or you are holding space after harm and need structure. This book moves beyond theory into tools communities can use. For Bare Radicals, it is about building ways to respond to harm without defaulting to punishment. Alt text included on all slides
#bareradicals #creativeinfrastructure #politicaleducation #transformativejustice #conflict
ESSENTIAL READING Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. Táíwò introduces the concept of elite capture: when political language and justice movements are redirected to serve those who already hold disproportionate power, even within marginalised groups. It is not an argument against identity politics but an argument against how power consolidates itself behind identity. For Bare Radicals, this lands because cultural work can become personality-led, representation can stop at visibility instead of change, funding can favour the already connected, and leadership can quietly centralise itself. Elite capture asks us to think structurally. Not who is the right person, but what are we building.
alt text: Graphic reading “ESSENTIAL READING” over a bookshelf background with Bare Radicals logo. Book cover of Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. Graphic reading “READ THIS IF…” followed by prompts about leadership, organising, and critiquing identity politics.
#BareRadicals #EssentialReadingSeries #CreativeInfrastructure #CulturalWork #PoliticalEducation #PowerInPractice #EliteCapture #CommunityOrganising #MovementBuilding #IdentityPolitics #SocialImpact #LeadershipDevelopment
WE’RE ON SUBSTACK! We’ve finally made a dedicated blog for our network to let the world know what we thinking. First up from our series from Cairo with love by @amaraya___
ICYMI: our founder goes to @mil_lisbon to talk about spaces we occupy and what power in nightlife looks like. Alongside a multifaceted group of thinkers also making moves in the music industry, nightlife and party scenes, @bogomirdoringer@gin.bali & @alasauvette.studio moderated by @lynxandme
Sometimes conferences feel like a bunch of non- revolutionary people clapping their owns backs but this one has been different. Probably our first conference with two workshops related to digital capitalism and rights (a fave from yday).
We shared a short reading list cos sharing is caring and hope people reach out with dreams to change the music world.
The final days are today and tommorow. Let’s get it 👌🏽
📣📣 CARNIVAL SUNDAY AFTERPARTY 📣 if you haven’t already noticed, the Queeribbean Domino Project are seriously outside this summer. With games and vibes into the night before we start again the next day. Join us whilst resting your legs for a bit, and then catch sets from @bumpah.ldn@emmakorantema@faggamuffinblocparty 📣 HOSTED BY @itsryanlovell for @pxssypalace AND FOR QUEER AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN ANCESTRY PPL. ♥️💚🖤
Pull up and vibe with the Queeribbean Domino Project with @blackobsidian_soundsystem at their summer day party this Sunday at @piehouse.coop 🙌🏾
We’ll be hosting dominoes, so come down for a day of music, food, art and performances.
‼️ Advanced tickets are near sold out but there will be limited tickets on the door ‼️
When: Sunday 16 August
Where: Piehouse Co-Op
More info at the link in our bio. Hope to see some of you there ✌🏽
What happens when we gather at a table… or a DJ mixing desk? (Full article on substack)
At Bare Radicals, we’ve been activating all kinds of tables — domino tables, archive desks, fire pits, sewing tables — as sites for joy, grief, play, memory, and transformation. This Saturday, we bring that ethos to the DJ booth.
We’re linking up with @hardfood.live — a Caribbean-led DJ collective honouring the sound, soul & spirit of the diaspora — for the launch of GUQU (Gully Queens), their new series celebrating resilient queer Tibetans.
At the heart of the night: Open Decks. A now-rare format that invites both seasoned and emerging DJs to share space and sound without ego. Think of it as an open mic for DJs, and audio storytellers echoing the legacy of sound system culture as a space of intergenerational knowledge and experimentation.
In a nightlife scene increasingly shaped by cliques, branding, and £20 cocktails, GuQu is a call back to Caribbean club culture that was built on community, not clout.
Come reason, rave, and run tunes with us this Saturday.
🗓️ 2 August | 📍The Glitch, Waterloo | 🎟️ Tickets in bio
🍽️ Food. 🎶 Music. 🎮 Games. 🏳️🌈 Love.
#DiasporaDancefloor #BlackQueerJoy #CaribbeanNightlife #OpenDecks #QueerCaribbean #FromEnds #DominoDiaspora #CommunityThroughPlay #CarnivalSeason #SoundsLikeHome
Happy to have made this pamphlet at @maydayrooms yesterday during a relaxed lecture with a cool person from 56a info shop in Peckham. It was the last of the archives “archiving from below” series. / getting to know archives and how to use them is really fun and way juicier than going to galleries. This discussion made a brilliant case for the need to chill out about cataloguing and artsy printing styles. Don’t forget the mission is to share free knowledge, and real histories.
Showcasing QDP at @brxhousetheatre and using dominoes, a game played across the Caribbean that resonates with so many of us, as a way to connect and remember on Windrush Day was special.
What we practice through the Queeribbean Domino Project is rooted in the resilience of our African and Caribbean heritage.
Shout out to the new faces who took a seat at table or came over for a chat!
👀 the last slide for some BTS
We're honouring the legacy of Windrush this weekend with a Brixton House takeover! Drop in anytime from 11am-4pm for steel pan performances, open games of dominoes, writing workshops, a market hosted by Black-owned businesses and come to our book swap led by Dopereaders - bring books, find new ones and swap!
You can also catch Montel Douglas's debut play One Way Out with £12 tickets available for the Windrush performance at 2.30pm, Sunday 22 June.
📅 Sunday 22 June
🎟️ Register for your free ticket
🔗 Click the link in bio for more info
📸 @metronomes_mso@bareradicals@coldislanders
