• Episode 5: Emma Dabiri

  • Jul 10 2024
  • Length: 22 mins
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Episode 5: Emma Dabiri

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  • Continuing in our efforts to promote and facilitate Black women-centric conversations across the diaspora, this week's guest is the exceptional Emma Dabiri. Emma is an Irish Nigerian author and broadcaster who has spent over a decade as an academic at Villanova University and as a fellow in the African department of The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. An expert in the Black Irish experience, histories of oppression, the decolonization of Black history, and Black feminism, she’s written for The Guardian, Elle, Irish Times, Vice and others. Emma is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, WHAT WHITE PEOPLE CAN DO NEXT, along with DON’T TOUCH MY HAIR and her latest book, DISOBEDIENT BODIES: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty.


    In this wide-ranging episode, Emma talks to us about the ills of capitalism and its ties to patriarchy and evolving standards of beauty, the hazards of the male gaze and more. Get out your pen out and take notes--this week's show is a real education.


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