Join the Museum of Impossible Forms in reading Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press, 2021) by black feminist writer Lola Olufemi.

Collecting poetry, short stories, and reflections on visual culture, the book draws from historical revolutionary movements to imagine anti-capitalist and abolitionist futures. In this publication, Olufemi navigates the space between what is and what could be. Weaving together prose and poetry, the book explores 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: ‘Not otherwise as in, the political horizon awaits; otherwise as in, a firm embrace of the unknowable; the unknowable as in, a well of infinity I want us to fall down together.’

The reading group is facilitated by curator Micol Curatolo.

Dr Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and Stuart Hall foundation researcher from London who recently completed her doctorate at the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media at the University of Westminster. Her work focuses on the uses of the political imagination and its relationship to cultural production, political demands and futurity. Olufemi is the author of Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press, 2020), and Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press, 2021). She is a member of ‘bare minimum’, an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective. Her forthcoming publication Against Literature is published in 2026.

The event is part of SLOW — Seasonal Laboratories for Other Worlds, a series of exhibitionary workspaces for collective labouring and alternative connections between bodies, places and economies. Curated by Micol Curatolo @micolcuratolo in collaboration with the Museum of Impossible Forms @museumofimpossibleforms.

To receive the text in advance, contact micolcuratolo [at] gmail [dot] com.