In this episode author Koko Hubara talks with Michelle A. Tisdel and Kaisa Ilmonen about Black feminist epistemology, writing as liberatory practice, norms of knowledge, Black feminist authors everyone should know, and why intersectionality work cannot forget its roots in Black feminist work.

Michelle A. Tisdel works as a research librarian at the National Library of Norway. She holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology from Harvard University based on her research on Cuban museums and Afro-Cuban heritage production. Tisdel’s research interests include cultural policy, heritage production, and discourses of belonging in Norway and Cuba. Kaisa Ilmonen is a docent at the University of Turku, and works there as a lecturer at the Department of Comparative Literature. Her research interests include such topics as intersectionality, questions related to identity in minority literatures, postcolonial and queer studies, and the Caribbean novel. Koko Hubara works at Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike), as the Arts Advisor of the development programme  for Cultural Diversity and Mobility. Her objective is to promote the working conditions of BIPOC and/or immigrant artists in the Finnish field of art and culture. Outside of Taike, Hubara works as an author, creative writing teacher and translator.

Credits: Produced by Mira Eskelinen for UrbanApa

Editing: Mira Eskelinen

Sound mixing: Timo Tikka

The episode was recorded online in May 2023 as part of #StopHatredNow 2023.