Marai Larasi is one of the contributors to the 'Routledge Handbook of the Politics of MeToo Movement'. She is an advocate, community organiser, consultant, and educator, whose work deliberately centres the journeys, narratives, knowledge and expertise of Black / Global Majority women and girls. For over 25 years, her social justice practice and activism has focused primarily on ending violence against women and girls. Today we talk to her about the tension between the poetic flow of activist expression and the linearity of academic writing, plantation feminism (a term she coins in the book), and the importance of getting comfortable with discomfort when we’re trying to build solidarity with one another.
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