Black Joy Healing x Professor Ruha Benjamin: On Black Joy & Black Grief
Join us for a talk, Q&A , and social about Black Joy, Black poetics, the blues tradition, Black Grief, and Afrofuturist worldbuilding. About this Event You're invited to Professor Ruha Benjamin Prese…
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- Bush House North Wing, King's College London30 Aldwych, LondonGreater London
About this event
Join us for a talk, Q&A , and social about Black Joy, Black poetics, the blues tradition, Black Grief, and Afrofuturist worldbuilding.
About this Event
You're invited to Professor Ruha Benjamin Presents Black joy & Black grief event! Join us at King’s College London, 8th Floor North Bush House (Strand, London) for an exciting in-person gathering where we'll delve into the ways Black joy promotes health and wellbeing in the UK. This event is a celebration of resilience, resistance, and community.
About the study:
Dr Tanisha Spratt and Dr Nkasi Stoll (King's College London) are working on a Wellcome funded study and community project that explores the health promoting benefits of Black joy. Black joy is a term used to describe demonstrations of happiness, humour, and cultural pride within Black communities.
About Professor Ruha Benjamin's talk:
We will be joined by our amazing guest speaker Professor Ruha Benjamin. Amid multiple, interlocking crises, when even the most basic assertion that Bla
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