Writing on Race, Sexuality, & Identity with Kamal Al-Solaylee
co-organised by Bras Basah Open, Oogachaga, and the Canadian High Commission
Objectifs, November 2019
Talking points raised with Kamal during the session:
1. Writing as method of locating self and communities; writing as intellectual work
2. “Brown-ness”: its localities, terminologies (unpacking its synonyms: BAME, POC, minority), politics etc.; mobilising through brownness vs. resistance against tropes and archetype-ing
3. Intersectionalities: speaking for the community (how to identify the community); on faith and sexuality; language of identity-politics
4. Speaking/Writing against the grain: self vs self as representational (of community, faith, sexuality)
5. Strategies of Care for self and the community: writing and being as acts of resistance and restoration
1. Writing as method of locating self and communities; writing as intellectual work
2. “Brown-ness”: its localities, terminologies (unpacking its synonyms: BAME, POC, minority), politics etc.; mobilising through brownness vs. resistance against tropes and archetype-ing
3. Intersectionalities: speaking for the community (how to identify the community); on faith and sexuality; language of identity-politics
4. Speaking/Writing against the grain: self vs self as representational (of community, faith, sexuality)
5. Strategies of Care for self and the community: writing and being as acts of resistance and restoration
