Join us in celebrating the launch of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK) Issue 14: LINGERING, a collection of newly commissioned texts, original artworks, and reprinted works.

For the occasion, SDUK14 contributor Craig Jennex will give a live reading of his essay “Queer Collectivity in the Echoes of the Dance Floor.” Jennex’s text underscores a radical potentiality that resonates throughout the issue in which contributors navigate complex emotions like grief, joy, and mourning while developing vital forms of activism, celebrating disability and queerness, shaping institutions, and finding poetry in everyday life. This launch also doubles as an opportunity to acknowledge the insightful work of contributors to SDUK between 2020 to 2022, while also recognizing how the current issue serves as a way to meet, collaborate, and offer mutual support during a time when gathering in-person was not possible.

The SDUK is a broadsheet publication series that interrogates the relationship and antagonism of “useful” ideas by reflecting on urgent contemporary issues in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The platform borrows its name from a non-profit society founded in London in 1826, focused on publishing inexpensive texts such as the widely read Penny Magazine and The Library of Useful Knowledge, and aimed at spreading important world knowledge to anyone seeking to self-educate. The SDUK is published triannually by the Blackwood as a free print publication, PDF, and as a digital publication on the gallery website. Copies are circulated to local bookstores, libraries, cafés, and community centres across the GTHA, and to select art bookstores, museums, and galleries nationally and internationally.

SDUK14: LINGERING contributors include: Jeffrey Ansloos, Sarah Bird, Matthew Bonn, Brothers Sick, Emily Cadotte, Lynn Crosbie, Rayne Foy-Vachon, Karl Gardner, Craig Jennex, Shan Kelley, Mya Moniz, Kayla Moryoussef, Mourning School, Rasheen Oliver, Tamara Oyola-Santiago, Kimone Rodney, Fady Shanouda, nancy viva davis halifax, Chrystal Waban Toop, What Would an HIV Doula Do?, and Karen K. Yoshida.

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