Between Starshine and Clay

Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) is an evolving, radical visual arts organisation dedicated to developing an artistic programme that reflects on the social and political impact of globalisation.With the Stuart Hall Library acting as a critical and creative hub for our work, we collaborate with artists, curators, researchers and cultural producers to challenge conventional notions of diversity and difference. We engage a wide audience, particularly young people, in discourse and debate on issues surrounding the politics of race, class and gender.Through our programme we work predominantly with British-born and British-based visual artists of African and Asian descent supporting them at different stages in their careers. We offer residencies, commission new work and promote existing practices enabling artistic ambition and development.

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iniva x Silver Press’ first Fugitive Feminism Reading Group Session with Akwugo Emejulu

Stuart Hall Library (Iniva)

iniva x Silver Press invite you to join our first Fugitive Feminism Reading Group Session titled &#x27;Between Starshine and Clay&#x27; with the author Akwugo Emejulu.

Fugitive Feminism is a call for the collective process of speculative dialogue and a bold new model for action drawing on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Sylvia Wynter and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted to reject the category of ‘human’.

In this interactive reading group and discussion, we will explore the ‘fugitive’ through collective reading and listening from Emejulu’s book alongside texts such as Sylvia Wynter’s No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues and poems from Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Derek Walcott and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza.

Join us from 5pm in the iniva bookshop at Stuart Hall Library, where refreshments will be provided before and after the reading session with the chance to buy Fugitive Feminism alongside other iniva titles. The reading session will begin promptly at 5.30pm, followed by a Q&amp;A session.This event is free and open to all! It is a supportive and peer-led space for thinking and learning together. It is a space for constructive disagreements and critical engagement that is always based on mutual respect, interest, and care.

All texts are encouraged to be read together in the session, so you don’t need to read them in advance.

This reading group is supported by funding from Freelands Foundation.
Facilitator
Akwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include the political sociology of race, class and gender and women of colour’s grassroots activism in Europe and the United States. She is the author of several books including Precarious Solidarity (forthcoming, Manchester University Press) and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press, 2017). She is co-editor of To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019).

Publisher
Silver Press is an independent feminist publisher, based in London. silverpress.org

Accessibility
If you have any access requirements, please email us in advance at info@iniva.org and we will do our best to accommodate. Extracts of the texts will be provided on the day.

Agenda

Welcome & Refreshments in Bookshop

Interactive Reading Group and Q&A

Bookshop and mingling 

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