AABC is a place to gather together with fellow creative minds, culture workers & critical thinkers to connect on & center anticapitalism.
Fill out our quick questionnaire here to help shape AABC by sharing your perspective & get added to the AABC email list. Our 1st book will be "We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice" by Mariame Kaba and we’re currently voting on our 2nd book from now until 3/30. Here's a list of our 6 book options and a link to vote here.
If an Instagram user, please follow along at @AABC_PDX as an additional way to stay informed.
AABC is a free community space for artists in Portland, OR. The “Portland” part is specific because we'll be meeting in various locations throughout the city (tbd, based on the groups needs). The "artist" part is expansive & can mean many things (so don't let the label inhibit you from joining).
We welcome folks who are only able to attend once but offers sustained meetings for those able & interested in more consistently building community together. In response to the readings & our discussions we’ll also collectively generate & implement ideas for art offerings to help us metabolize our materials with support from the Precipice Fund.
Books AABC read together in 2024 include: “**The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins” by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,** **“Let This Radicalize You” by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba** (You can find unlimited copies of the audiobook on the libraries website/ libby app)
Hi! I’m your organizer, Megan Chin (she/they), & I’m a queer mixed race mixed media visual artist based in Portland. AABC is something I dreamed up in 2023. Seeds were planted when I took Anticapitalism for Artists 10 week online ****intro to anticapitalism course in 2022. There I expanded my understanding of what capitalism & anticapitalism looks like through rigorous reading as well as consistently sharing vibrant conversations with fellow artists across the country. Afterwards a small group of us formed a related book club over zoom which I am exceedingly grateful for. It's been a gift & such an impactful teacher that I wanted to organize something similar in Portland. AABC began gathering last year & collectively decided to meet in person (masks required) for 2 hours every 2 weeks starting in late February through mid June. This time together was spent discussing our chosen books & connecting with fellow book club members. From mid June-November 2024 our meetings were spent collectively co-creating art activation(s)/project(s) in response to our readings with grant funding.
