What are the norms of knowledge? Who are the Black feminist authors everyone should know? Why intersectionality work cannot forget its roots in Black feminist work?
Koko Hubara hosts the second episode of the Stop Hatred Now podcast titled Black Feminist Epistemology.
She converses about black feminism, norms of knowledge production and writing as a liberatory practice with guests Michelle A. Tisdel and Kaisa Ilmonen.
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.
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Stop Hatred Now 2023 podcast is produced by Mira Eskelinen for UrbanApa.
Editing by Mira Eskelinen, sound mixing by Timo Tikka.
Speaker info
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Koko Hubara
HOST
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.
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Koko Hubara työskentelee Taiteen edistämiskeskuksen kulttuurisen moninaisuuden ja liikkuvuuden kehittämisohjelman taideasiantuntijana. Hänen tehtävänään on edistää maahan muuttaneiden ja/tai BIPOC-taiteilijoiden asemaa suomalaisella taide- ja kulttuurikentällä. Taike-työn ulkopuolella Hubara työskentelee kirjailijana, luovan kirjoittamisen opettajana ja kääntäjänä.
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Michelle A. Tisdel
GUEST
Michelle A. Tisdel works as a research librarian at the National Library of Norway. She holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology from Harvard University (2006) 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. She co-edited the volume A Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging: Routes Roots, and Rhizomes (2020). In 2020, she created Lift Every Voice-LEV, a documentation project about antiracism in Norway. Tisdel served on the committee for cultural heritage preservation of Arts Council Norway (2009-2011) and on the board of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History (2008-2017). Currently, serves as a board member of Museums in Akershus (MiA) and the chairperson of the members' organization INN - Ethnic Minorities in Norwegian Cultural Life.
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Michelle A. Tisdel työskentelee tutkijana Norjan kansalliskirjastossa. Hänellä on sosiaalisen antropologian tohtorintutkinto, jonka puitteissa hän tutki kuubalaisia museoita ja afrokuubalaisen perinnön tuotantoa. Tutkijan roolissa hän keskittyy kulttuuripolitiikkaan ja kuulumiseen diskursseihin Norjassa ja Kuubassa. Tisdel on toimittanut A Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging: Routes Roots, and Rhizomes -teoksen (2020). Vuonna 2020 hän aloitti Lift Every Voice-LEV -dokumentaatioprojektin, jossa puidaan antirasismia Norjassa. Tisdel toimii tällä hetkellä Museums in Akershus -hallituksen jäsenenä sekä INN - Ethnic Minorities in Norwegian Cultural Life -jäsenorganisaation puheenjohtajana.
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Kaisa Ilmonen
GUEST
Kaisa Ilmonen is a university lecturer at the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Turku and holds the title of Docent in the research of minority literatures. She is the PI of the research project “Intersectional Reading, Social Justice, and Literary Activism” (INTERACT) 2022-2025, funded by the KONE Foundation. Her long-term research interests include Caribbean literature and postcolonial theory, queer studies, and intersectionality.
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Kaisa Ilmonen on yleisen kirjallisuustieteen yliopistonlehtori sekä vähemmistökirjallisuuksien tutkimuksen dosentti Turun yliopistossa. Hän johtaa Koneen Säätiön rahoittamaa hanketta ”Intersectional Reading, Social Justice, and Literary Activism” (INTERACT) 2022–2025.
Hänen pitkäaikaisia tutkimusintressejään ovat karibialainen kirjallisuus ja postkoloniaalinen teoria, queertutkimus ja intersektionaalisuus.