‘This method emerges from the substance of everyday things. So, excuse me if it seems at times like I am grasping at nothing. I am. Hold on with me.’

Join writer and researcher Lola Olufemi and Titilayo Farukuoye in conversation at Glasgow Zine Fest as they explore imagination as a strategy for change. Grounded in black feminist scholarship and political organising, Lola’s latest book, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise, oscillates between prose and poetry to deliver a series of playful provocations that tempt and challenge us to think, act and relate anew.

Expect readings, conversation and reflections around the importance of collective autonomy, the role of the artist in building new worlds and inventing the future now. Your voice is welcome too, and you will be invited, during a Q&A, to share your thoughts and questions.

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.

This event will be live-streamed, so you can join in online or in person.
Visit the Glasgow Zine Library website to book tickets.