Imagining Otherwise

This fragmentary lecture will refect on the political and afective possibilities ofered by feminist practice in times of crisis. It will examine the Black feminist tradition in the United Kingdom, specifcally the modes of organisation and cultural production that emerged from this radical social movement to demonstrate the necessity of contemporary feminist antifascists to rethink, reorder and unsettle the fxed notions of temporality that afrm the ‘ideal past’ on which fascist conceptions of reality depend.

Dr. Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and Stuart Hall foundation researcher from London who recently completed her doctorate based in the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media at the University of Westminster. Her work focuses on the utility of the political imagination in the textual and visual cultures of radical social movements, examining the role cultural production plays in materialist resistance and collective conceptualisation of futurity. She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press, 2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press, 2021), the forthcoming Against Literature (2026) and a member of 'bare minimum', an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective.