Hi everyone,
Disobedient Bodies book club have partnered with Penguin for Black History Month. I'll be announcing it over on IG over the weekend but wanted to let you know first. I'm running a competition to give away a bundle of five titles including :
Don't Touch My Hair ...
2020-10-09 12:12:42 +0000 UTC View PostUp next are some deep cuts from an early draft of Don't Touch My Hair. I was waaaay over the word count and had to get brutal but I'm really fascinated by these ideas and will deffo revisit and use elsewhere.
Lemme know your thoughts. If you don't know the tracks I'm talking abo...
2020-10-02 22:23:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everybody,
I am have just enrolled on this course - which I think looks absolutely awesome. I'm incredibly excited about it and wanted to share with you, in case it was of interest to any of you too. The deadline is fast approaching though (October 9th) so if you do fanc...
2020-10-02 16:06:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Peeps here's the podcast episode. It was recorded 4 years ago but I never broadcast it and fucking hell, it feels more relevant and necessary today then it did then ! So this is its big fat overdue debut!!!
In my conversation with Jeremy Weate the centre director of ...
2020-09-23 22:49:17 +0000 UTC View PostWay back when, in the world of 2016 I started an NTS podcast about the intersection between spirituality and activism. I came increasingly to believe the latter really needed to be animated by the former and wanted to explore this idea through a series of conversations with people who were knowle...
2020-09-13 21:57:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks
Really looking forward to our next book club meeting tomorrow Thursday August 27th 9pm. We will be discussing Don't Touch My Hair // Twisted (if you're in the US). Ill be in conversation with Beatrice Vundla for about 30-40 mins and then we'll have questions and open convers...
2020-08-26 21:33:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
How you all been? It's been a busy week for me as I've been working on a new project, one close to my heart, which I can tell you all about next week.
My schedule has distracted me from the fact that it's also over a week since my Twitter sabbatical began, a...
2020-08-21 22:11:48 +0000 UTC View PostGood evening friends,
I hope you are well during this strange sweltering summer! For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed - I'm not there ! I have something important (and exciting) that I'm working on and was finding it too distracting a space, but in truth, I ...
2020-08-13 23:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostEvenin crew !
Come on now don't be shy - let me know if any of you want to be in conversation with me for our next disobedient bodies book club. Doesn't matter if you've never done anything like this before - it'll be a great first experience and we can prep beforehand, equally you mi...
2020-08-02 21:40:31 +0000 UTC View Post
A likkle soundwave to sooth ye through the night, or indeed the day.
music is a conduit for so many forms of power, and one of the most potent instruments for both revolution and joy
mix by disobedient bodies collective...
2020-07-27 00:10:52 +0000 UTC View PostHola
How are you all? Well I hope.
Our third disobedient bodies text is going to be Don't Touch My Hair. It hadn't occurred to me to do my own book but I had quite a few requests for it so thought why not.
I also thought it might be fun to have one of ye (ye = '...
2020-07-26 23:24:20 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patrons,
I received some very sad news last week that my father had passed away.
I just wanted to let you know whats been going on and to explain that I'll be taking a little time off. I'll be in touch again very soon but Disobedient Bodies book club will be postponed t...
2020-07-17 23:14:32 +0000 UTC View PostNew post over at Disobedient Bodies https://disobedientbodies.com/other-voices/f/the-white-club-problem-with-white-guilt-by-julian-obubo
2020-07-06 23:00:57 +0000 UTC View PostHola,
I hope you're all well. I wanted to ask if any of you were interested in facilitating some of the zoom break out sessions for tonight's discussion of Trick Mirror, which you will have received a zoom invite to if you're signed up to the disobedient bodies mailing list. If you ha...
2020-06-16 17:32:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hola,
Over the last week I've been made some resources p about the invention and construction of race which I've postd IG and I wanted to make that information available to you all here incase you're not Instagram and also just as somewhere to have these ideas consoli...
2020-06-10 23:19:06 +0000 UTC View PostGiven the nature of this piece and the context, it would be obscene to have it behind a paywall so please check out first disobedient bodies essay over at ht...
2020-06-06 16:44:49 +0000 UTC View PostHola denizens of the disobedient.
Just wanted to update you as work that I was planning to post for you all has been put on hold for a week or so, as I respond to the global protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd.
I have commissioned a couple of pieces from the US,...
2020-06-02 23:32:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings gang,
Can't wait for our second session! The next Disobedient Bodies Reading Group will be discussing Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion on Wednesday June 17th at 9pm BST.
I think for this one, depending on numbers we will be using zoom br...
2020-05-27 23:29:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm delighted that for our first session of disobedient bodies book club we will be joined by Kiley Reid the author of “Such A Fun Age” - a zinger that I flew through in a couple of days.
When a young black woman enters the orbit of “white feminist” influence...
2020-05-12 23:43:45 +0000 UTC View Post