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Upcoming events for Library Takeover:
🗂️ Collective Archiving Session
12:00 - 13:00 | 19 July
During our collective archiving session, we will think and work through the words of Sarah Ahmed:
“You encounter the materiality of resistance to transformation when you try to transform what has become material.”
Throughout our project Archiving Everyday Panties, we think through the material, of panties, and the tensions that lie around documenting and archiving. Within this session we hope to create a space to untangle the unspoken.
We will play with the panty you bring and think together the way of documenting and visualising by writing, drawing, printing, scanning, photographing, and more.
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📖 Reading Group & Zine Launch
15:00 - 17:00 | 19 July
@__b.r.i.c.k.s__ @hectorish
Following the issue 01: A Collective Manifesto, which confronted the unspoken politics of underwear, this second issue expands the conversation and centres queer’s panties. Issue 02 Queer Pillow Talk unfolds the intersections of femininity, feminism, and queerness by treating panties not merely as garments, but as sites of meaning—objects that carry weight, memory, and tension.
The zine launch will take form as a collective reading group, reading together the zine and more extensive excerpts.
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🗣️Queer Chitchat
13:00 - 15:00 | 20 July
@narjmi
During our Queer Chitchat, we weaponize whataboutery—deflecting heteronormativity and the racial biases tied into the system. We will also reflect on our own experiences as collaborators centering care—how every time we meet, we begin with chitchat, complaints, and shared vulnerabilities. Soon, we realized that our different pains and experiences stem from our own subjectivities. Are you tired? Come and complain. What can we think through together? How can we find the words we’d never discover alone? Maybe someone will help you find solidarity; maybe someone will name the feeling that has made your body uneasy around certain people or in certain spaces. In this space of fragility, we navigate what emerges when we talk openly—bring a friend, sit in the corner, and finally have that catch-up you’ve been meaning to do.