Reading Work is an intentional gathering of artists who met over the course of a year to create this first season. Their conversations are central to the project an their engagement is consistent.
This particular audio excerpt from the group’s conversation features Xaviera Simmons on institutional responsibility when working with artists.
The artists responded to:
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By Saidiya Hartman
White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide
By Dylan Rodriguez
Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons
By Colin Kaepernick (Editor)
We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By Mariame Kaba
Are Prisons Obsolete?
By Angela Y. Davis
Carceral Capitalism
By Jackie Wang