Remembering Mike Davis

In May 2023, I worked with the ACLU of Southern California and LARB to pay tribute to the late Mike Davis. I had the idea for us to give radical walking tours, to do more than a reading and get people out into the city that owes so much of how we see it to Davis. Davis’s widow attended, and she told me that Mike would have appreciated the tours. Our CD 13 city council rep Hugo Soto Martinez also walked and posted about it. Our departure and after-party location was here in Silver Lake at The Black Cat.

In the zine, I wrote:
”Davis was mythically angry, but his work also made a shared history of solidarity visible. He saw cities—big, crowded, and dense, with all their flaws—as a source of hope. We want to bring alive his vision of being together, densely, so that we can both live well and protect green spaces outside the city walls. So we’re inviting Los Angeles, the city that Mike raged against and loved, to party in his honor…”

The cover of our limited release zine