Armed by Design:A conversation about International Solidarity with Lani Hanna and Giulia Strippoli
What images come to mind when you think of revolutionary struggle?
Armed by Design a new (four-language) book, reflects on the intersection of graphic design and political solidarity work in revolutionary Cuba through the lens of the production of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
A talk about international solidarity, armed struggle, and anti-imperialism then and now, featuring the recent publication Armed by Design.
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Lani Hanna holds a PhD in Feminist Studies at University from California Santa Cruz with a designated emphasis in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. She is on the faculty of the Department of Arts and Culture at University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on counter-institutional archives and political infrastructure. Her most recent co-edited book with Interference Archive is on design and publishing called Armed by Design: Posters and Publications of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America with Common Notions publishing January 2025. She has worked with Interference Archive in New York City on many publications and exhibitions, including Armed by Design and Take back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up. You can find some of her other writing in Radical History Review, Radical Teacher, and Scholar and Feminist Online. Before taking the position in Amsterdam, Lani spent many years as a member of the long running Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair collective and trained at the collectively run martial arts school, Suigetsukan, in Oakland, California.
Giulia Strippoli is a historian, researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Nova University of Lisbon. She has conducted research on communist parties, student movements, global labour history, women's history, feminisms and visual arts. Her recent publications include the articles "Female Gazes in the Communist Movement: Women Photographers in the Interwar Period and World War II" (2024) and "Arriving from the revolution: International Women's Year in the Portuguese Hot Summer" (2023). In 2024 she published, co-author with Sandro Moiso, "Riti di Passaggio. Cronache di una Rivoluzione Rimossa. Portogallo e Immaginario Politico 1974-1975", a book that recounts the experience of the revolutionary group Lotta Continua in Portugal during the Carnation Revolution. She is the author of the documentary "Lionel' Life" (2020) about the director Lionello Massobrio and his film shot in Angola during the war of independence, "Victory is Certain!"
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