Stella Dadzie and Sofia Akel discuss the importance of reclaiming and recording Black women’s narratives; placing their experiences centre-stage, not just socially but also historically. Black women have been long relegated to the margins of history. Decolonizing that history means unearthing many, many untold narratives.
Stella Dadzie is an educationalist, historian and co-founder of OWAAD. Lola Olufemi is a researcher and author of Feminism Interrupted; Disrupting Power
This is the first video in a series capturing the program by Everyone's A Singer named 'Our Song Our Story: Girls in Synth' - where talented young women came together to create an original song.
Stella Dadzie and Sofia Akel discuss the importance of reclaiming and recording Black women’s narratives; placing their experiences centre-stage, not just socially but also historically. Black women have been long relegated to the margins of history. Decolonizing that history means unearthing many, many untold narratives.
Live recording of Surviving Society Podcast with Stella Dadzie from the 2022 Connected Sociologies Summer School.
To mark the anniversary of the 1985 Brixton Uprising, we invited artists, activists and thinkers to write letters on what protest means to them. Listen to an extract from Stella Dadzie's letter and read the full letter here: https://brixtonhouse.co.uk/uprising-protest-letters/ This letter is part of the UPRISING Festival.
Join us for a virtual book talk on A Kick in the Belly, with author Stella Dadzie. This book tells The story of how enslaved women struggled for freedom in the West Indies. Despite the very few opportunities enslaves West Indian women had to record their stories, there is no question that they played a distinctly central role in the development of a culture of slave resistance.
The second session from our Hidden Narratives: Discuss. Discover. Dismantle. series with author, educationalist and activist, Stella Dadzie.
In this episode, I am joined by Stella Dadzie and Kelechi Okafor to discuss Black womanhood, their life as public figures and radical self-care. Additionally, Stella speaks about her highly-anticipated new book 'A Kick in the Belly', which tells the story of black female resistance during slavery.