SURVIVAL KIT

Inspired by Sara Ahmed's 'Killjoy Survival Kit' (which you can find in her book Living a Feminist Life) we have put together these resources to sustain and strengthen the eavesdropping community. One inspired the very creation of eavesdropping; all have inspired significant conversations or new strands to our activity, and may help you as makers of music, thinkers of bold ideas and harbingers of marvellous change. 

BOOKS/ESSAYS

The Laugh of the Medusa (1975) by Hélène Cixous (which inspired the first symposium, back in 2017)

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016) by Donna Haraway

Living a Feminist Life (2017) by Sara Ahmed

Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era (2019) by Marianna Ritchie

Figuring (2019) by Maria Popova

The Necessity of Re-attachment (2020) by Annea Lockwood (available as pdf here)

Subordinate clauses on entanglement, intuition, praxis, and being a female maker-of-things (2020) by Sophie Fetokaki (here)

On Connection (2020) by Kae Tempest

Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (2021) by Lola Olufemi

Dignity at work 2: Discrimination in the music sector (2022) — a report for ISM by Kathryn Williams & Vick Bain

Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century (2022) by Kate Molleson

Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession (2023) edited by Anna Bull, Christina Scharff & Laudan Nooshin

ORGANISATIONS

ISM: Independent Society of Musicians, 'the UK's professional body for musicians and subject association for music'

TONIC Theatre: 'supporting the arts and cultural sector to achieve greater equality, diversity and inclusion'

The F-List: 'helping women and gender-expansive people in the UK overcome structural barriers'

If there's a resource you think absolutely must be in this survival kit, please let us know!