Questions of Presence
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Friends House
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Questions of Presence
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research in Collaboration with the Association for Psychosocial Studies
Speaker: Dr Gail Lewis, Birkbeck, University of London
More a collection of unfinished thoughts than a scripted paper, this presentation is an invitation for a collective attempt to begin to define and identify how it might be possible to be black and a woman in these post-Brexit, post-Obama times.
Gail Lewis is an academic and Head of the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College and a psychotherapist. Her political subjectivity was formed in the intensities of black feminist and anti-racist struggle and through a socialist, anti-imperialist lens. She was a member of the Brixton Black Women's Group and one of the founder members of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent. She has written on feminism, intersectionality, the welfare state, and racialised-gendered experience. She is an Arsenal fan.
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The Birkbeck Institute for Social Research is a hub for the dissemination and discussion of social research in London and beyond.
Formed in 2013, the Association for Psychosocial Studies aims to progress work exploring how subjective experience and social life are fundamentally entangled.
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