Conversations on Race, Class and Identity: 'Taking Up Race: Women of Colour on Class, Colonialism and Whiteness in Oxbridge and Beyond'

This exciting inaugural session of Conversations on Race, Class and Identity - organised by the School of Arts and Humanities - features five brilliant and accomplished women of colour who speak with honesty and clarity about the issues that matter in Cambridge and beyond.

Speakers

Afua Hirsch (St. Peter’s, Oxford 1999) is a wellknown writer, broadcaster, and author of Brit(ish): On Race Identity and Belonging (Jonathan Cape, 2018)

Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan (Queens' 2016) is author of Postcolonial Banter (Verve Poetry, 2019), and founder of www.thebrownhijabi.com

Lola Olufemi (Selwyn 2017) is a co-author of A Fly Girl's Guide to University: Being a Woman of Colour at Cambridge and Other Institutions of Power and Elitism (Verve Poetry Press, 2019)

Chelsea Kwakye (Homerton 2018) has co-authored Taking Up Space: the Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change (Random House Heinemann, 2019) with Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi

Waithera Sebatindira (Trinity Hall 2016) is a coauthor of A Fly Girl's Guide to University, and the first woman of colour to be elected CUSU Women's Officer

All are welcome