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Spotlight On: Marai Larasi
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Spotlight On: Marai Larasi

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.

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Joanna Bourke 18 February 2021
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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

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