Why is listening to children and taking their wishes, dreams, feelings and thoughts seriously a crucial part of transformative politics?

‘What are we going to do with a world that places targets on children’s backs before they can even understand they are in danger?’

— A question from Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

‘I love my mother, but she couldn’t protect me. I love you but you couldn’t either. I’m a lot better now, you see?’

— A line from Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies

‘Now the child announces they will tell a story, and it is exactly the same story the parent has told, again and again, repeated each day with fresh joy, and it is heard with loving patience.’

— From the endnote of Pearls from Their Mouth

Join Lola Olufemi, Heba Hayek & Pear Nuallak at Burley Fisher Books for the first in a two-part event series from Hajar Press on the theme of childhood.

Visit the Burley Fisher website to book tickets.