In this edition of Spotlight On, SHaME’s Principal Investigator Prof Joanna Bourke interviews Marai Larasi, ‘rock star’ feminist activist and College Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London.
Spotlight On: Marai Larasi
In February 2021, SHaME Principal Investigator Joanna Bourke interviewed ‘rock star’ feminist activist Marai Larasi, who is a College Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London.
Watch their interview here to hear Joanna and Marai speak about how her experiences in different locations – London, Jamaica, the US – shaped her activist roots, Marai’s strategic advocacy work with UK-based Black feminist organisation Imkaan on the experiences and needs of black global majority survivors of sexual violence, and her involvement with #MeToo, #TimesUp and taking her activism to the Golden Globes.
FIND OUT MORE:
Website: www.imkaan.org.uk/
Twitter: @Imkaan
Facebook: @imkaan
SHaME blog: Imkaan, Intersectionality, and Sexual Violence
