In this episode, we chat to Lola Olufemi about the radical potential of imagination. We speak about the relationship between theory and lived experience and how to deconstruct linear narratives of history and time. We talk about the possibilites language and art can bring to political movements and revolutionary ideas, as well as their limitations. We discuss how to move beyond the trappings of crisis and the importance of re-discovering play, both in writing and in our communities. We explore the role of collaboration within art and the reconfiguration of history as a kind of process which is constantly being re-made, through ancestral connection and the reanimation of archives. 

References:

A FLY Girls' Guide to University by Lola Olufemi, Odelia Younge, Waithera Sebatindira, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

Feminism Interrupted by Lola Olufemi

Experiments in Imagining Otherwise by Lola Olufemi

Poetics of Relation by Edouard Glissant

Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail Bakhtin

June Jordan

bell hooks

Olive Morris

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