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Chronicling Resistance, Philadelphia, PA (2026)

02/08/2023

Anita Cornwell is a Black feminist le***an and the author of 'Black Le***an in White America'. This rare book is America's first Black le***an anthology including an interview with Audre Lorde and personal accounts of Black le***ans in the 50s. This Friday at 6:30p, we're hosting a reading of this book and poems by Adrian Stanford, including her book 'Black and Q***r'.

02/03/2023

The exhibition is coming down, but there’s one more thing we have to get in! This time next Friday, come and experience Black q***r Philadelphia’s literary history through voices of today’s Black q***r community. In an evening of live readings and performance, members of Philadelphia’s Black q***r community revive rare works by prolific Philadelphia writers Anita Cornwell and Adrian Stanford. Visit ChroniclingResistance.org/events for details.

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01/30/2023

Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition closes with a performance by folk and soul singer Talie Cerin tomorrow. Join us for an evening of music and stories connecting Black resistance in Haiti and Philadelphia. The concert will take place in the Skyline Room, but come early and take one last look at Chronicling Resistance with extended hours in the Dietrich Gallery.

01/26/2023

When community members come together to help meet one another’s needs, everyday acts like cooking a meal or sharing household supplies can make neighborhoods stronger and more interconnected. They are also less dependent upon systems that have historically exploited them.

Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition highlights some ways mutual aid has played a major role in Philadelphia’s resistance history and explores this practice of care further in, “Mutual Aid: How Neighbors Are Helping Neighbors.”

This free program will include a moderated panel discussion about what our communities are doing to support and grow the legacy of mutual aid in our city. The panel discussion will occur in-person at Blackwell Regional Library and will be livestreamed at Logan and Fishtown. Free food platters will be available at all three locations. Food is first come, first served.

Thursday, January 26, 2023 3:00 p.m.
Three Free Library Locations:

Lucien R. Blackwell Regional Library: 125 S 52nd St.

Logan Library: 1333 Wagner Ave.

Fishtown Community Library: 1217 E Montgomery Ave.

Panelists and Organizations:

Tanika Little, Executive Director of Ian-Yae’s In Touch

The People’s Kitchen

Meg Finley, Senior Services and Nutrition Director, Lutheran Settlement House

01/25/2023

This Wednesday, artmaking, talks with filmmakers, or both? Catch the last of the collage as a ritual of resistance workshops with at Nicetown-Tioga, AND/or a double film screening with ’s Louis Massiah and Prof. Deborah A. Thomas, at Parkway Central Library. More below, details at ChroniclingResistance.org.

At 6:00 pm:
Stories of Black communities’ resistance against and resilience amid state violence abound throughout Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition. Join us for this provocative companion program in which filmmakers Louis Massiah and Deborah A. Thomas will screen and discuss documentaries that explore these stories through infamous incidents of state violence in Philadelphia and West Kingston, Jamaica.

At 4:30 pm:
Come visualize possibilities of joy, glory, paradise, and a better future in a participatory collage making workshop.

01/23/2023

Just like resistance in Philadelphia, the meals we prepare in our Philly homes are rooted in places and traditions that stretch across rivers and oceans. Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition celebrates this rootedness with a cooking demonstration and story exchange connecting Southern and Caribbean culinary traditions. Join us TOMORROW at Blackwell Regional Library for this free program featuring plant-based recipes created by Chef Shayla Felton-Dorsey, inspired by the African diaspora, and rooted in the culinary rituals of Black heritage cooking. All ages are welcome! Engage your senses and let the flavors of the diaspora transport you.

Tue., January 24, 2023

3:00 p.m.

Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library

125 S 52nd St.

Chef Shayla is a community-based chef whose purpose aligns with advocacy, education, community, and food. Shayla is an instructor with the Culinary Literacy Center’s Edible Alphabet program and a caterer and private chef with her own business, Shayla’s Savour, where she teaches and empowers her clients.

Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition reveals what eight local activists, cultural organizers, and artists unearthed when they dug deeply into the same Philadelphia archives that have historically excluded their voices and perspectives. Through archival items, rare books, oral histories, and original artwork, Chronicling Resistance counters the systemic erasure of Black, Brown, and LGBTQ+ people from the historical record, breaks silences, and uncovers new ways of understanding and enacting resistance. See this dynamic and unique exhibition now through Jan. 31, 2023.

Chronicling Resistance has been generously supported by the Mellon Foundation and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support and collaboration with the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries.

01/23/2023

Just like resistance in Philadelphia, the meals we prepare in our Philly homes are rooted in places and traditions that stretch across rivers and oceans. Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition celebrates this rootedness with a cooking demonstration and story exchange connecting Southern and Caribbean culinary traditions. Join us TOMORROW at Blackwell Regional Library for this free program featuring plant-based recipes created by Chef Shayla Felton-Dorsey, inspired by the African diaspora, and rooted in the culinary rituals of Black heritage cooking. All ages are welcome! Engage your senses and let the flavors of the diaspora transport you.

Tue., January 24, 2023

3:00 p.m.

Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library

125 S 52nd St.

Chef Shayla () is a community-based chef whose purpose aligns with advocacy, education, community, and food. Shayla is an instructor with the Culinary Literacy Center’s Edible Alphabet program and a caterer and private chef with her own business, Shayla’s Savour, where she teaches and empowers her clients.

Chronicling Resistance has been generously supported by the and with additional support and collaboration with the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries.

01/20/2023

Join Chronicling Resistance fellows Katherine Antarikso (.145) for an in-depth tour of her exhibit and research that lead to her current project . Joined by Lan Dinh (), they explain their research process, explore selected archived items, and share how you can archive your history too. Tour times are at 3:30 and 5:30 today at the Parkway Central Library.

01/17/2023

How might the information held within archives support community activists and their work? Scholar-activists Christina Jackson and Morgan Lloyd, whose academic works are inspired by, delivered to, and embraced by the communities that nurture them, answer this question and more in a conversation exploring institutional and community archives. Join us tomorrow at 6pm in Room 25 at the Parkway Central Library.

01/14/2023

Beautiful workshop with Doriana and friends at the Olney Branch. Stay tuned for two more events in her collage workshop series. Excited to see you all there!

01/09/2023

Join Doriana Diaz () in experimenting with visuals that curate our ideologies around joy, glory, paradise, and more by using communal imagination and collage as a ritual that seeks to actualize our wildest dreams into reality. This event will be hosted at Greater Olney Library this Wednesday 1/11/23 at 3:30p. See you then!

01/09/2023

Join us as a cross-generational panel of memory workers, activists, and archivists who are preserving untold stories in traditional and nontraditional ways discuss the joys and challenges of their work.

Panelists include Germaine Ingram, Shinjoo Cho, Li Sumpter, Samantha Hill, and Tafari Robertson.

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