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Disobedient Bodies Book Club: Black Feminism Reimagined After Intersectionality by Jennifer Nash
The next book we are going to read in DB book club is Feminism Reimagined which I'm currently reading myself. I know it sounds v. niche but honestly this is a must read for everybody ! Black Feminism Reimagined After Intersectionality is a groundbreaking text, -and with the ubiquity of intersect...
Disobedient Bodies Book Club Conversation with Symeon Brown author of Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
Exclusive recording of book club chat for PatreonsWould love to hear your thoughts and keep the conversation going x
Disobedient Bodies Book Club In-Conversation with Get Rich or Lie Trying author Symeon Brown Tonight
Hello loveliesJust a lil reminder about this live tonight at 8pm and an opportunity to give you first dibs on any questions that you might have for Symeon. If you have anything you want to ask him, let me know as soon as possible but totally cool to just ask directly tonight as well.This will be an ...
Disobedient Bodies Book Club April 27th
Hi everyone,I hope you are well. As promised I am starting up Disobedient Bodies again and our first book with be Channel 4 Investigative Journalist Symeon Brown's Get Rich or Lie Trying described as a new cutting exposé of the influencer economy. I'm also delighted to share that Symeon wil...
New Literary Courses and the Return of Disobedient Bodies Book Club
Hello everybodyI wanted to pick up more regular communication again, now that I’m more settled, and increasingly feel like sharing less and less of my thoughts and ideas on social media, particularly Twitter.I’m in the US at the moment, where I have been appointed to a position called the Heimbo...
The enclosures, Ireland, colonialism.
The following is from an early draft of WWPCDN. There was a lot that didnt make the final edit as I was way over the word count. But I'm sharing it in light of the UK MPs Report that links the increased use of the term 'white privilege' with the adverse material conditions of the 'wh...
Irish and Black Solidarity - Unpublished excerpts from What White People Can Do Next
Hi everyone,WWPCDN is way over the original word count, and even so, I had to lose lots of text as earlier drafts were way way way over! But I'd love to share some of that material with you here.Ok first up we have this lil section on Irish and black points of solidarity, which I love.Do let me ...
Upcoming April events
Hola loveliesA selection of events I'm doing in April. Do let me know if you'll be attending and I'll say hi!April 1st https://membership.theguardian.com/event/what-white-people-can-do-next-with-emma-dabiri-142843917001April 8th https://housmans.com/event/what-white-people-can-do-next-fr...
Update March 21st
Hola everybodyIt’s been a hot minute but the last two weeks have been absolutely mad ! Still I’m back now, WWPCDN is out in 1.5 weeks, the US edit is almost finished and the audiobook is recorded. Whoop whoop!I went waaaay over the word count, so I’ll be sharing lots of the stuff I couldnt fit...
Weekly Update February 24th
Whoop whoop whoop. Spring has sprung!!! Anyone else feeling a long overdue pep in their step with the novelty of sunshine? ( I dunno you’re probably not all on a mostly grey lil isle, so you might have different relationship to the seasons ) but boy what a difference the sun's rays make .And t...
Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass !
Happy Valentines Day beloveds.Is it as cold where you are as it is in the UK? My word, it is Baltic! The flipping sea froze for the first time in like half a century. I didn’t see it myself but it sounds kinda extraordinarily beautiful.One of the many mad developments to come out of this wild year...
Celebrating the Legacy of Frederick Douglass: an Iveagh House Lecture
Hey beauts,This is happening tomorrow night 7-8pm if ye fancy it.Keynote from Professor Stevensonwho is 'hailed by Desmond Tutu as "America's Mandela", Professor Stevenson has devoted his life to fighting injustice, racism and discrimination in America. He is the founder of Equal Jus...
TV and Academia Edinburgh Keynote
Hey beauties,How are you all? I wanna say ‘roll on March /April but I’m actually very reluctant to put a date on things. There have been so many false alarm ‘it’ll be ‘back to normal by…..’ over the last year, and here we are, the best part of a year later, still in lockdown!Early on i...
Edinburgh TV Festival
Hello beloveds,As you may well know my work sits across both academia and TV (as well as other intersections). As such I have been invited to give the keynote speech at the Arts and Humanities TV festival (a charity initiative that is part of the Edinburgh Festival) https://www.thetvfestival.com/tal...
The Gaze
Hey gang,I hope this week has treated you well!WWPCDN is in its final stages before print, I've been working on little tweaks all weekend. Instead of the weekly round-up this evening, I'm going to share a piece I wrote on beauty and the gaze. I ended up having to rewrite it completely as it ...
Weekly update January 18th (by the skin of its teeth) Ok lets call it 19th!
How are you beloveds?I submitted the draft of my book for proofs (galleys) on Friday and then re-wrote a section over the weekend and re-submitted again this morning! Whoop. So I’m now free…. to catch up on everything I have let stack up while I’ve been writing it….Still struggling to make s...
2021 WTF
Welcome back my loves. 2021 started off with a bang ! Where to begin? Does anyone remember an episode of Charlie Brookers end of year Screenwipe where he discussed what a nutso year it had been, and the way there were all these major cataclysmic events happening every few weeks that in the past woul...
Weekly Update December 21st : The season finale !
As basketcase Britain goes into free fall, it seems appropriate that we enter into the longest night of the year with a cosmological event that hasn’t been seen since the Middle Ages, 800 years ago! Tonight the two largest planets in our solar system; Jupiter and Saturn, will nearly overlap to for...
Extra Round Up December 17th
What's up my peeps?Just a lil extra note this week ahead of Sunday cos the previous one was so scant. WWPCDN is back with my editor and I’m awaiting her comments tomorrow which is always ever so slightly nail biting ! Like I said, its way over the word count, so whatever doesn’t make the fin...
Weekly Round Up December 14th
Beloveds,Forgive me, its a quick one today! Round two of my WWPCDN manuscript was due Friday and guess who still hasn't sent it - insert sweating emoji face.However at this stage its almost 10k over the word count haha so you can expect those outtakes on here !I have lots of thoughts I want to s...
Weekly round-up December 7th
Hey peeps.Bare with my timekeeping and refer back to my arguments regarding the 'managing' of time in chapter 2 of Don't Touch My Hair (hahaha can I get away with that ?!)Recently, I’m feeling a huge shift in my work. For quite a while I’d been feeling frustrated because it seemed an...
What White People Can Do Next update
Just swinging by with a lil update. So at 3am this morning, I finished the manuscript for WWPCDN (upon which my youngest son, promptly woke up and cried until around 5am! of course). So while I'm feeling delirious (I then had a day of voice overs for series 5 of Britains Lost Masterpieces - we&#...
Weekly roundup
Lets face it, the Friday round up is a Sunday round up !The response to my book cover has been phenomenal – thank you so much for all your feedback.This week saw the Home Office double down on their decision to deport 50+ people to Jamaica just before Christmas, in the middle of a global pandemic....
TA-DA Sneak peek !
Hey folksWhat I'm writing is full of surprises so I imagine the cover is slightly unexpected as well lol.You guys are literally the first people to see it, so please don't share anywhere until after it goes live on my socials later in the week, in the meantime thoughts please...Big love x
Weekly roundup ( I know its not Friday but do days even matter anymore?)
Hey famz,I hope you're all well.I think some of you were at the Dingle Lit session today so thanks for dropping by. If you wanted to ask me a question and didn't get a chance you can holla on here. I loved discussing The Vanishing Half with Brit. I'm thinking of doing it as a disobedient...
Catch Up
Hello there,Gosh I've missed a couple of weekly round ups so my apologies for that. I actually really like doing 'em but trying to meet my deadline for What White People Can Do Next (the end of this month eeeek), being in this second lockdown while looking after two nippers and juggling all ...
Non election/lockdown related post we'll get to that tomorrow
Hey peoples,Did any of you see my C4 hair doc Hair Power; Me and My Afro that was broadcast last week? Its up on 4OD for those in the UK who feel so inclined. Here's some behind the scenes shots from on set..Wow fireworks going off like mad in the background, who else can hear 'em? feels sui...
Weekly Round-Up. October 31st
Oíche Shamhna - Happy Halloween in Irish for those of you not familiar with the language!Did you know that Halloween originates from Ireland and was exported to the world via the USA following the mass migration of Irish to the States during the mid 1800s as the result of the Famine. The turnips th...
Weekly round up October 16th
What a week, and saying that in 2020 is quite something! But with the tier 2 announcements and the No deal Brexit bombshell, it really is quite something.What are you doing to cultivate joy? For me it’s family, reading, meditation and flowers. I’ve bought bundles of dried flowers; daisies and he...
Round up of the week !
I was thinking that a round up of the week every Friday might be nice. A brief reflection on current affairs / what I've been up to, something of that nature.This week has been an incredibly busy one for me. Black History Month is in full swing and I don't think I've ever seen one that h...
