Lola Olufemi – författare

'I was blown away' - Angela DavisPlastered over t-shirts and tote bags, the word 'feminist' has entered the mainstream and is fast becoming a popular slogan for our generation. But feminism isn't a commodity up for purchase; it's a weapon for fighting against injustice.This revolutionary book reclaims feminism from consumerism through exploring state violence against women, reproductive justice, transmisogyny, sex work, gendered Islamophobia and much more, showing that the struggle for gendered liberation is a struggle for justice, one that can transform the world for everybody.

In the years since #MeToo, misogyny, sexism and gender based violence have flooded the news and our social media timelines. Anti-privilege politics and intersectionality have entered the mainstream—systematically trolled on one end of the spectrum; embraced, to questionable ends, on the other. But what has this increased visibility entailed, other than the marketisation of the feminist struggle?Feminism for the World argues that we have been witnessing an erasure of feminism as a long-term tradition, with its many conflicting histories and geographies of struggle elided and forgotten.In this ground-breaking collection, eight leading international figures of contemporary feminism highlight feminist struggles and traditions from the Global South, presenting feminism as a project that is impossible without international solidarity from the West. In doing so they revive an authentic internationalism and propose paths for present and future generations.

In the years since #MeToo, misogyny, sexism and gender-based violence have flooded the news and our social media timelines. Anti-privilege politics and intersectionality have entered the mainstreamsystematically trolled on one end of the spectrum; embraced, to questionable ends, on the other. But what has this increased visibility entailed, other than the marketisation of the feminist struggle?Feminism for the World argues that we have been witnessing an erasure of feminism as a long-term tradition, with its many conflicting histories and geographies of struggle elided and forgotten.In this ground-breaking collection, eight leading international figures of contemporary feminism highlight feminist struggles and traditions from the Global South, presenting feminism as a project that is impossible without international solidarity from the West. In doing so, they revive an authentic internationalism and propose paths for present and future generations.Authors include Lola Olufemi, Franoise Vergs, Silvia Federici, Vernica Gago, Zahra Ali, Rama Salla Dieng, Sayak Valencia and Djamila Ribeiro. Translated by Fionn Petch and Sophie Lewis.

Chosen as a 2021 Book of the Year by The New Statesman, gal-dem & Red Pepper.This is a book of failure and mistakes; it begins with what is stolen from us and proposes only an invitation to imagine.In these playful written experiments, Lola Olufemi navigates the space between what is and what could be. Weaving together fragmentary reflections in prose and poetry, this is an exploration of the possibility of living differently, grounded in black feminist scholarship and political organising.Olufemi shows that the horizon is not an immaterial state we gesture toward. Instead, propelled by the motion of thinking against and beyond, we must invent the future now and never let go of the otherwise.

Davant la crisi i la desesperança, una inspiració per imaginar un futur diferent. De l''autora de ''Feminisme Interromput''.Escollit com a ''Llibre de l''any'' per The New Statesman, gal-dem i Red Pepper.Davant de la desesperança i la desídia que ens ofega, Lola Olufemi articula el seu discurs entre allò que ens han dit, allò que sabem que és veritat i allò que encara no podem concebre. No es conforma amb el que creiem o intuïm, i amb la seva provocadora imaginació no només pretén canviar la nostra mirada, també desitja amb passió inspirar-nos, desafiar la lectura que fem del nostre món per poder ser i viure diferent.Olufemi mostra en aquests experiments que l''horitzó no és un estat immaterial cap al qual gestem una utopia inexistent. De fet, impulsant-nos pel moviment de pensar en contra i més enllà, hem d''inventar el futur ara, i el repte és actuar per fer realitat el món que volem.-------«Vaig sentir que el meu cervell espurnejava i girava amb possibilitats i confrontacions. Amb tota la seva brillant i rica generositat, em recorda que la nostra realitat és tota una ficció.»gal-dem«Ofereix, per sobre de tot, esperança per la humanitat… hauria de ser un requisit que tothom el llegeixi.»The Guardian«Una lectura innovadora i necessària»BOOK RIOT