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Poet, essayist and former Young People’s Laureate for London Momtaza Mehri presents a new essay on the slipperiness of female power, agency and identification.
Touching on the affective and communal pleasures Black womxn wring from cultural/political juggernauts such as Beyoncé, Michelle Obama and Oprah – and the limitations of representational over-identification, as pleasurable as it may be, with power –Mehri interrogates the joys and critical failures of these moments, and their relation to the lack of agency that characterises the lives of so many working-class Black womxn.
Drawing on figures such as Ella Baker and Claudia Jones, Mehri explores what it means for the powerless to superimpose their most unattainable ‘girl boss’ feminist fantasies and liberatory aspirations onto a few, inordinately powerful individuals, and how these instincts manifest in mainstream political discourse and personal relationships.
This reading is followed by a conversation between Mehri and ICA Assistant Curator Ifeanyi Awachie and an audience Q&A.
04:30 pm
Sat, 09 Nov 2019
Cinema 1
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