Thursday 23.11.23. 6.30–8pm. Free. Book via Eventbrite

Who does not envy with us is against us is a new book of essays by Maria Fusco, published by Broken Sleep Books, an independent working-class press in Wales.

This special event will feature a reading by Maria, and a conversation with Thomas Abercromby about the ideas, issues and propositions raised in the book.

Praise for the book:

“I love this book with my entire life and beyond… a testament to Fusco’s analytic and lyric genius, and her ability to move and affect. Fusco mobilises a previously unnamed mood shared by the international, intergalactic working classes, I’ve never seen anything like it. Read this book.”

— Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

Thomas Abercromby is a working-class Glaswegian artist and curator based between the UK and Norway. He is the Associate Curator at Grand Union Gallery in Birmingham. His artistic practice explores neglected histories and stories that contest dominant societal frameworks. His new film, John, is currently showing at Collective, Edinburgh, 21st October to 23rd of December, as part of the Satellites programme.

Maria Fusco is a working-class writer from Belfast, now based in Scotland. Her opera-film, History of the Present, about the legacies of the peacelines in Northern Ireland, is co-directed with Margaret Salmon, launched April 2023 as part of the official commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, touring to Art Night (Dundee), Edinburgh Art Festival and Royal Opera House (London). She is Professor of Interdisciplinary Writing at the University of Dundee.