Spooner's No Fun 

IT STARTS WITH ANGER is a coming-of-age graphic memoir exploring race, identity, and rebellion through James Spooner's teenage years in 1990s New York into his young adulthood in the early 2000s. Confronted with systemic racism, microaggressions, and Nazi extremism within punk spaces, Spooner traces how reactionary anger evolved into a creative force and a path to self-determination, along the way following the founding of the Afro-Punk movement.This event will include a viewing of Spooner's 2003 documentary Afro-Punk, a discussion of his new book IT STARTS WITH ANGER, and a performance by OG skatepunk legends, McRad. James Spooner is an award-winning author, graphic novelist, filmmaker, and tattoo artist. His previous works include the graphic novel The High Desert and the anthology Black Punk Now. He directed the seminal documentary Afro-Punk and co-founded the Afro Punk Festival. Always true to his DIY roots, James continues to screen Afro-Punk internationally and gives talks on punk, comics, authorship, and Black identity.