Nesrine Malik interviews writer Lola Olufemi about her latest book, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Reading Olufemi is, according to The Guardian, ‘to believe that another world is possible’. Experiments in Imagining Otherwise is a rallying cry for political change informed by Black feminism and activism. It’s a torrent of urgent emotional expression, shifting between poetry and prose, that urges readers to grab the future and run with it. Maybe, suggests Olufemi, we already know what to do.

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.

Nesrine Malik is a Sudanese-born journalist and the author of We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent. Based in London, Malik is a columnist for The Guardian and serves as a panellist on the BBC’s weekly news discussion programme Dateline London.

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