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Join world-renowned astrologer, co-founder of the CHANI App, and New York Times best-selling author, Chani Nicholas, and artist, activist, and author, Molly Crabapple, for an IRL conversation about her new book and national bestseller, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: the Story of the Jewish Bund. The discussion will focus on what we can learn from this radical movement that has been largely destroyed, and how we can use those lessons to combat the political violence we’re up against today to build a better, more just world.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Here Where We Live Is Our Country: the Story of the Jewish Bund reanimates a band of idealists who broadened our global political imagination. As we once again contend with nationalism, repression, and the struggle for belonging, the Bund’s remarkable story and message—that liberation, dignity, and solidarity must begin where we stand—reaches across time as a guide to our own urgent moment.
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This event will take place in person on the third floor (room 301) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011. A signing will be held afterwards at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor
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Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer based in New York. She is the author of three books, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham), which was long-listed for a National Book Award in 2018, and Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. Her reportage is the 2022 winner of the Bernhard Labor Journalism Award, and has been published in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and elsewhere. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. Her animations have won two Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow Award. She was a 2024 fellow at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library researching Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund, which was published by Random House in April 2026.
Chani Nicholas is the New York Times best-selling author of You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance and the world-renowned astrologer behind the CHANI app. She is known for blending ancient astrological wisdom with mindfulness, psychology, and practical tools that support purpose-driven living, community wellbeing, and mutual aid, giving 5% of her company’s revenue to survivors of gender-based violence. Her weekly podcast, Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas, is top-ranked in the Spirituality/Astrology category, and she has served as the resident astrologer for Oprah Daily and been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and multiple Netflix series.