Join writer Lola Olufemi for an open discussion on two books that offer profound insights into the marginalising effects of white heteropatriarchal societies.

Preti Taneja’s Aftermath, a lament for a friend killed in a London attack in 2019, is a genre-bending book about the systemic nature of atrocity.

Hannah Black’s Tuesday or September or The End is a speculative fable in which aliens unleash violence towards justice.

Reading the books in advance is not required to enjoy this engaging conversation.

Lola Olufemi (she/they) 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 futurity, political demands and imaginative-revolutionary potential. She is the author of Experiments in Imagining Otherwise and Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power, the co-author of A FLY Girl’s Guide to University, and a member of ‘bare minimum’, an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective.

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