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)

'Coming to Writing' (1999) by Hélène Cixous, in Coming to Writing and other essays

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

Practical Performance Magic: Recipes and Spills (2023) by Maija Hirvanen & Eva Neklyaeva

Space Crone (2023) by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Immediacy, or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism (2024) by Anna Kornbluh

Bodies of Sound: Becoming A Feminist Ear (2024) edited by Irene Revell & Sarah Shin

ORGANISATIONS

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

PRS Foundation: 'Women Make Music fund supports the development of outstanding women, trans and non-binary songwriters and composers of all genres and backgrounds at different stages of their career' 

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!