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Akwugo Emejulu leads this panel discussion on Black women collectives and grassroots organising featuring Yon Afro Collective founders Layla-Roxanne Hill and Francesca Sobande, Fania Noël from Mwasi Afrofeminist Collective and Rianna Walcott, co-founder of website Project Myopia.
The impetus for staging Fugitive Feminism now responds to current cases of Black women’s struggles for recognition. In a recent introduction of the series at ICA, Emejulu described a particular example, ‘Women of colour activists undertaking creative and innovative work in the UK – occupying prisons, doing refugee survival work, supporting migrants at Yarl’s Wood – are doing work that can’t be recognised as legitimate political activism. They can’t be seen as allies in struggle, they can’t be read as legible.’
Supporting a transnational conversation on grassroots organising by women of colour, this panel presents testaments of organising in Glasgow, Paris and London. Layla-Roxanne Hill and Francesca Sobande discuss their work organising around the misrepresentation of Black women in Glasgow, including their co-founding of the Black-led Yon Afro Collective, Fania Noël presents the work of Mwasi Afrofeminist Collective, a Parisian collective of Black and African women, and London-based organiser Rianna Walcott shares her work on researching Black identity formation in digital spaces and in promoting diversity in academia.
The impetus for staging Fugitive Feminism now responds to current cases of Black women’s struggles for recognition. In a recent introduction of the series at ICA, Emejulu described a particular example, ‘Women of colour activists undertaking creative and innovative work in the UK – occupying prisons, doing refugee survival work, supporting migrants at Yarl’s Wood – are doing work that can’t be recognised as legitimate political activism. They can’t be seen as allies in struggle, they can’t be read as legible.’
Supporting a transnational conversation on grassroots organising by women of colour, this panel presents testaments of organising in Glasgow, Paris and London. Layla-Roxanne Hill and Francesca Sobande discuss their work organising around the misrepresentation of Black women in Glasgow, including their co-founding of the Black-led Yon Afro Collective, Fania Noël presents the work of Mwasi Afrofeminist Collective, a Parisian collective of Black and African women, and London-based organiser Rianna Walcott shares her work on researching Black identity formation in digital spaces and in promoting diversity in academia.
11:30 am
Sat, 21 Jul 2018
Theatre
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