Worker Co-Op Weekend, 16 - 18 May 2025

Panel discussion on on worker-owned venues with Friends of the Joiners Arms, Misery, Equity Union, Cybertease and Piehouse Co-op, chaired by Anjali Prashar-Savoie.

Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB), 28 April 2025

A conferência será dada por Olimpia Burchiellaro, professora na Universidade de Essex e autora de The Gentrification of Queer Activism: Diversity Politics and the Promise of Inclusion in London, e Chris Rossdale, professore de RI na Universidade de Bristol e autore de Resisting Militarism: Direct Action and the Politics of Subversion.

Common Press, 9 March 2025

Two years in the making and produced by legendary sound recordist Sarah Nicol we are delighted to launch the audio version of this award-winning book (Attitude Magazine Book of the month Summer 2020 and Observer book of the week June 2020).

SOAS Centre for Gender Studies, 29 October 2024

The Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS is an interdisciplinary space promoting research and teaching on gender and sexuality with particular reference to Asia, Africa, the Middle East and their diasporas.

University of Westminster, 20 July 2023

An evening of lively discussion on queer spaces, LGBTQ+ activism and the gender/sexual politics of neoliberalism for the book launch of 'The Gentrification of Queer Activism: Diversity Politics and the Promise of Inclusion in London', with Dr SM Rodriguez, Dr Catherine Charrett, Amardeep Singh Dhillon and Samantha Sun.

The Glasshouse, 11 March 2022

Join us for a night of celebration with the Gay Liberation Front for the 50th anniversary of Pride, which they began!

ACT UP London & the Centre for the Study of Democracy, 21 - 22 November 2021

The events will be based on Sarah Schulman’s latest book Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York (2020) which is the result of more than 200 interviews conducted over 18 years.

The World Transformed, 26 September 2021

50 years on from the Festival of Light action by the Gay Liberation Front, this session will bring queer and trans organisers and writers together to talk about historical and current frontiers and tactics of liberation.

New London Architecture, 13 September 2021

London is losing a major part of its vitality and, importantly, ‘fun’ following a stark spate of closures of LGBT+ venues and other spaces. But practitioners are fighting back with research and project proposals, along with concerted attempts to reopen key bars and pubs in the face of ‘gentrification’.

Stir to Action Festival, 14 July 2021

Friends of the Joiners Arms campaigners Isabella Phoebe Lewis and Olimpia Burchiellaro discuss gentrification, queer venues and resistance.

Zed Books, 24 June 2020

Speakers: Ted Brown: Black LGBTQ activist and founding member of the Gay Liberation Front. Olimpia Burchiellaro: from the Friends of the Joiners Arms Campaign. LeaSuwanna Griffith: from ACT UP Women - Catwalk for Power, Resistance and Hope, Dan Glass, author of United Queerdom

The Wellcome Trust, 24 April 2020

Led by Dr Olimpia Burchiellaro, this workshop will discuss the tensions and possibilities between academic and activist work. We will draw from our own experiences of activism, academia, organizing, thinking, reading, writing etc… to reflect on what academic activism is (is it possible? where does it take place?), how we might engage in it and why, and ultimately, who and/or what the University is even for.

African American Policy Forum & The Centre for Research on Race and Law, 28 May 2019

Speakers: Kimberlé Crenshaw, Barby Asante, Sumi Cho, Daniel HoSang, Gail Lewis, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Emilia Roig, Barbara Tomlinson

ACT UP London, The Institute of Contemporary Art & SOAS, 1 - 4 May 2019

Sarah Schulman is joined by Dan Glass, Travis Alabanza and queer activists in a 4-day London event reflecting on the challenges and opportunities for coalition politics and queer liberty. Over four days the event will explore how to harness the power of coalition politics and queer liberty, what makes them work, and what can be learned from their history to propel change in the present.