05/10/2026
📖💡Ahead of the opening of Gabrielle Goliath's (Gabrielle Goliath) Elegy this Thu, and the talk A Lifework of Mourning, happening in our Majlis this Sat 10 Oct, the selected Burley Fisher (Burley Fisher Books) x PalFest (Palestine Festival of Literature) book of the month for October is Thinking from Black: A Lexicon.
Edited by Tina Campt, Kaiama L. Glover, Canisia Lubrin, Tavia Nyong’o (Tavia Nyong'o), Christina Sharpe (Christina Sharpe), and Alexander Ghedi Weheliye.
The Practicing Refusal Collective | £20
Emerging from ‘the vast vocabularies of black living and reading, this lexicon is a beginning, an invitation, and a demand to think with a set of words, phrases, concepts, and ideas that are part of the many languages that constitute, animate, and trouble black life.’ Compiled by the Practicing Refusal Collective, an international Black feminist forum of scholars, Thinking from Black is an expansive gathering of texts, images, playlists, scores and scripts for movement, from ‘Anarchy’ to ‘World’ via ‘Time’ (twice over), by writers including Collective founding members Tina Campt and Saidiya Hartman, alongside thinkers and poets including Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe, tatiana nascimento, Canisia Lubrin, Hazel Carby and Victoria Adukwei Bulley. Gabrielle Goliath contributes ‘Mourning’, a definition(al account) rooted in her ongoing work Elegy (2015—), ‘a re-inscription of black femme life’ in the face of r**e culture, a work ‘realized… in the sociality of performing bodies and gathered community… [in] the repetitious, refusing, reparative re of re-inscription’. It is this reparative re-inscription that runs through Thinking from Black as a collection and collective, a major contribution to living and reading.
🕯️ Pick up your copy this week, Wed—Sun, 11am—6pm.
