A FLY Girl’s Guide to University: Being a Woman of Colour At Cambridge and Institutions of Power and Elitism - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1912565145 ISBN 13 : 9781912565146

Editeur : Verve Poetry Press, 2019

Synopsis

A FLY Girl's Guide to University is a collection of memoirs, essays, poetry and prose from four women of colour who studied at the University of Cambridge. It is a multifaceted calling out of the wrongness underpinning their shared experience at Cambridge, and the experiences of others in similar institutions throughout the UK. But they describe it best: 'The purpose of our book is simple: we believe that our lives, our experiences, and our voices matter, especially in a place of power, pervasive whiteness and exclusivity. Our voices not only deserve to be heard but must be because the 'Cambridge experience' of a middle-class, white, cisgendered, able-bodied man is not the only one. Ours cannot be silenced'.

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À propos de l'auteur

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is Muslim, an educator, writer and spoken-word poet. She is fast becoming a leading voice interrogating narratives around race/ism, feminism, gender, Islamophobia, state violence and decoloniality in Britain. She is the founder and author of the critical and educative blog, www.thebrownhijabi.com, and 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, 2019). With a background studying History and Postcolonial Studies, as well as a wider education from her mother and grandmother’s wisdoms, the epistemology of Islam, and work of women of colour and anti-systemic thinkers from across the world, Suhaiymah’s poetry is unapologetically political and deliberately unsettling. She isn't interested in your guesses or analyses.

Suhaiymah's poetry has over two million online views and since going viral as runner-up of the 2017 Roundhouse National Slam with her poem, This Is Not a Humanising Poem, she has performed on BBC Radio stations, at music festivals, in the US against Californian slam poets, across British Universities, on Sky TV, ITV, the Islam channel, Las Vegas, TEDxes, London poetry nights, mosques, protests outside the Home Office, in New York, Berlin, at Da Poetry Lounge in Los Angeles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verve Poetry Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912565145
• ISBN 13: 9781912565146
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Éditeur: Olufemi Lola, Younge Odelia, Sebatindira Waithera, Manzoor-Khan Suhaiymah
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible