Experiments in Imagining Otherwise by Lola Olufemi Prints the practical

the practical

Mimicking the techniques of political and scientific pamphlets from the nineteenth century and combining Spiritualist ephemera with interviews

Much like the painter’s brush and the sculptor’s chisel – without it

Quarterbound (no jacket)

her work expresses autobiographical narratives through a process of layered storytelling

Experiments in Imagining Otherwise by Lola Olufemi Prints the practicalThis is a book of failure and mistakes; it begins with what is stolen from us and proposes only an invitation to imagine. In these playful written experiments, Lola Olufemi navigates the space between what is and what could be. Weaving together fragmentary reflections in prose and poetry, this is an exploration of the possibility of living differently, grounded in black feminist scholarship and political organising. Olufemi shows that the horizon is