Join us for an intimate gathering weaving together live readings and conversation, as invited guests share excerpts from We, the Heartbroken—a searing, tender meditation by Gargi Bhattacharyya on collective grief and the unbearable weight of racial capitalism. Refusing the language of resilience, Bhattacharyya instead asks: What if heartbreak is not something to overcome, but something we move forward with? What if heartbreak is the class consciousness of our time? Following the readings, the author will join us for a conversation on sorrow, survival, and the radical possibilities of feeling deeply in a broken world.
This event is part of Whose World? Whose Future? Whose Hope? Critical Fabulation for Pluriversal Futures, a public research series that brings together contemporary thinkers and artists whose work promotes abolitionist, anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-imperialist visions for articulating and actualising alternative worlds and futures. The series is curated by Lilly Markaki and supported by the Humanities and Arts Research Institute and the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.