Event

An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping: A Collective Reading


Join us for a collective reading from An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping 

February 13, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University

3401 Filbert Street, Philadelphia 


From “abundance” to “zinemaking,” An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping invites readers to wander through a collection of interconnected entries on helping and healing. Contributors come from the worlds of social work and family therapy; art and design; body work and witchery; organizing and education; and more.

Learn more about this sprawling social practice project and the process involved, and hear five of the authors read from their contributions.

Contributors in attendance will include:

  • Allan Irving (clouds as metaphor, fragments/fragmentation) is a social work educator, a dweller amidst the fragments and chaos.
  • Amirio Freeman (food sovereignty) is a writer and interviewer who explores the relationship between humans and our more-than-human kin and the creator of The Down to Earth Deck (Loam, 2022).
  • Denise R. Wolf, MA, ATR-BC, ATCS, LPC, LPAT (radical papermaking) is a Registered Board-Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Professional Art Therapist, and Associate Clinical Professor at Drexel University in the Creative Arts and Counseling Art Therapy Program, who practices and teaches in the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania, United States.
  • Erin Segal, MSW, PhD (ongoingness, public benefits, 12-step programs) is a middle-aged mother, wife, daughter, and friend who facilitates groups with elders and, along with Julie Cho, publishes unusual books about care.
  • Lindsay Reckson (she/her) (revolutionary mothering) is a writer, professor, and parent.

This event is free and open to the public! Please register to attend using the form below. 


About An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping

An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping invites the reader to wander through a collection of interconnected entries on helping and healing by over 200 contributors from the worlds of social work and family therapy; art and design; body work and witchery; organizing and education; and more. Privileging co-construction over diagnosis, wisdom over evidence, collective healing over individual cure—yet always blurring categories and embracing contradictions–this world-making collection reveals a pluriverse of helping practices grounded in love and freedom.

About Thick Press

ThickPress is a collaboration between two of the Encyclopedia’s editors, Erin Segal and Julie Cho, makes unusual books about care work and the work of the care.

Web: https://thickpress.com/

Date:
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Time:
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Leonard Pearlstein Gallery - URBN Annex
Campus:
University City Campus

Registration is required. There are 50 seats available.

Event Organizer

Stacy Stanislaw

Director of Communications
Drexel University Libraries
3300 Market Street
Philadelphia PA, 19104
svs22@drexel.edu