https://www.facebook.com/events/1995281150713322/?active_tab=about Join us at Bluestockings bookstore for a launch and liberation party for “Maroon Comix,” and a convergence and conversation among activists and artists. Maroon Comix is an illustrated guide for all ages to the past, present, and future of maroons; a genre and a genealogy connecting the dots between historic maroon communities and movements in the Americas, and modern maroons from Chiapas to Kurdistan, from Tanzania to Venezuela, from Bolivia to Sri Lanka, and from Havana to New York City!featuringauthor/editor Quincy Saul,spiritchild of a new black arts movement Kanya D'Almeida of Ecosocialist Horizonsand Maroon Comix illustrators Seth Tobocman and Mac McGill!“Escaping slavery in the Americas, maroons made miracles in the mountains, summoned new societies in the swamps, and forged new freedoms in the forests. They didn’t just escape and steal from plantations—they also planted and harvested polycultures. They not only fought slavery but proved its opposite, and for generations they defended it with blood and brilliance. Maroon Comix is a fire on the mountain where maroon words and images meet to tell stories together. Stories of escape and homecoming, exile and belonging. Stories that converge on the summits of the human spirit, where the most dreadful degradation is overcome by the most daring dignity. Stories of the damned who consecrate their own salvation.”for more information about Maroon Comix, visit: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=962 “Maroon Comix is breathtaking! I say that after decades of study and practice in that arena. One who is serious about resisting the dragons that threaten our very existence will use Maroon Comix to help fashion or reinforce their place within the hydra of twenty-first-century Maroons.”—Russell Maroon Shoatz, US political prisoner and author of Maroon the Implacable“I was drawn immediately into this exceptionally stimulating world of history and I didn’t put Maroon Comix down until the very last page! It was as if I too was in the swamp lands and running through the forests and up into the hills determined to live Free! I love how the circularly positioned routes of art and text take one on an in depth journey into realms of resistance that many have never known existed! THIS is how history should be taught! I am inspired…I am elevated….and I too, am Maroon!”– Mama Charlotte Hill O’Neal aka Iya Osotunde Fasuyi, Black Panther Party, Kansas City Chapter, co-founder of the United African Alliance Community Center, Tanzania