How to write stories that challenge institutions?
Aditi Jaganathan and Abraham Adeyemi
Description
Aditi Jaganathan’s work explores the emergent cultures which arise from Black and brown diasporic connectivities in city spaces. With a particular interest in creativity as decolonial praxis, she situates the imagination as a radical site of refusal and resistance. Having worked with different racial justice grassroots organisations she is focused on the transformation of the world through education. Radical pedagogies and spaces of (un)learning are a fundamental part of Aditi’s work as an educator. She currently teaches courses on race, gender and representation at Goldsmiths, as well as an independent course on sonics of revolution. Aditi holds an LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice at the SOAS, and is currently a PhD candidate at Brunel, University of London.
Abraham Adeyemi is a multi-award winning writer-director from South London that dropped out of an International Politics degree at university a decade ago to chase his dreams and - through instability and homelessness - persevered. He went on to graduate in Creative Writing from Birkbeck University of London, considers participating in the prestigious Royal Court’s Writers Group (2017) as a formative part of his development as a writer as well as Channel 4's 4Screenwriting programme (2019). His directorial debut ‘No More Wings’ was crowned best narrative short at Tribeca Film Festival 2020, he's currently developing numerous original projects for film & TV, and writing a pilot under the mentorship of Emmy and Bafta winning-writer Jesse Armstrong (Succession) through Dancing Ledge/ITV New Talent Scheme. When he’s not creating stories, he enjoys walking, puzzles, culinary experiments and finds participating in focus groups therapeutic. He misses live music and travelling very much but, above all, his life would be incomplete without his loved ones.