Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

Paperback, 146 pages

English language

Published by Hajar Press.

ISBN:
9781914221057
1 star (1 review)

This is a book of failure and mistakes; it begins with what is stolen from us and proposes only an invitation to imagine.

In these playful written experiments, Lola Olufemi navigates the space between what is and what could be. Weaving together fragmentary reflections in prose and poetry, this is an exploration of the possibility of living differently, grounded in black feminist scholarship and political organising.

Olufemi shows that the horizon is not an immaterial state we gesture toward. Instead, propelled by the motion of thinking against and beyond, we must invent the future now and never let go of the otherwise.

Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and CREAM/Stuart Hall Foundation researcher from London. Her work focuses on the uses of the feminist imagination and its relationship to cultural production, political demands and futurity. She is the author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power and a member of ‘bare …

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i haven't finished reading it, but boi oh boi if it is unreadable i love olufemi and i'm a huge fan of her first book, but this one i don't really know what it is and for who it is

some sort of spoken wordish artsy performance you would see at the tate, but in the shape of a book like, she talks abolition and whatnot, as per usual, but i'm not sure who's she talking to

very sad about it (sigh)