Améfrica Press Book Launch
Schedule
Mon Nov 10 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Greedy Reads Remington | Baltimore, MD
About this Event
Registration for this event is not required; however, in the case of a full event, your registration will reserve your seat.
Améfrica Press comes to Remington for the launch of two new books! Join Tanya Saunders, founder of Améfrica Press, for an evening with the authors, translators, and collaborators involved in these new books. The book launch will feature by Tiely and by Osmundo Pinho.
ABOUT TRANSPOETHICALBODY
This collection offers a lyrical and deeply intimate exploration of language, identity, and belonging. Drawing on rich poetic traditions, the work navigates themes of embodiment, memory, and transformation through a nuanced interplay of sound, rhythm, and imagery.
The preface of the book was written by Erica Malunguinho the first Black woman and Trans woman to be elected as State Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo.
All artwork is original artwork by the Salvador-based artist Ani Ganzala.
TIELY was born in April 1975. He is a multidisciplinary artist from East São Paulo. He is a member of the Hip Hop generation of the 90s. Tiely has worked/ is working on numerous music and audiovisual projects in which he works to bring visibility to the gender and sexuality debates within Hip Hop culture and the larger Brazilian society. Tiely is a poet, educator, actor, writer, and filmmaker who has worked as an art-educator for more than 20 years. Besides art and education, he is an avid lover of and competitor in sports. Within sports, he is primarily focused on soccer, rugby, and boxing. Tiely has published blogs, articles, essays and poetry. He has also published in academic collections. He is known as Brazil’s first nationally recognized hip hop artist who is a transman.
Author TIELY will be in conversation with Feibriss Ametista H. M. Cassilhas, Dr. Jaqueline Gomes de Jesus, Dr. Megg Rayara Gomes de Oliveira, and Dr. Letícia Carolina Nascimento.
The book will be available for purchase at the event.
ABOUT BONDAGE: ANTI-BLACKNESS AND ANCESTRALITY
In this groundbreaking book Osmundo Pinho makes an important contribution to Black Studies transnationally through placing Afro-pessimism in conversation with “Ancestrality,” an important theoretical concept emerging from the field of Black Studies in Brazil. In the book, Pinho argues that social death and ancestry coexist, are in tension, and are both transformations. In the case of Pinho’s work, which some scholars have referred to as "Afro-optimism", the author both recognizes social death, but he also recognizes black life, lived in relation to ancestry, and offers a framework through which black liberation can be realized.
Osmundo Pinho is from Salvador da Bahia. He has a PhD in Social Sciences (UNICAMP, 2003). He works in the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Social Sciences at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia and in the Postgraduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies at the Federal University of Bahia, in Salvador. He is an associate researcher at the Institute of African Studies at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and coordinator of the Territoriality, Violence and Heritage Group in the Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB/CNPq). He was a visiting scholar in the Department of African and Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (2014) and a Richard E. Greenleaf Fellow at the Latin American Library at Tulane University in New Orleans (2020). Co-organizer with Joao H. Costa Vargas of “Antinegritude: The Impossible Black Subject in the Brazilian National Formation” (2016) and author of “Captivity: Antinegritude and Ancestrality” (2021), in addition to other books, articles and essays.
Osmundo Pinho will be joined by translator Ayala Tude.
The book will be available for purchase at the event.
Where is it happening?
Greedy Reads Remington, 320 West 29th Street, Baltimore, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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