Jasleen Kaur & Raju Rage: Teflon and Resistance
Join Jasleen Kaur and Raju Rage for a sharing and discussion inspired by their conversation ‘Teflon and Resistance: disordered eating, indigestible truth and healing.’ They wilil discuss their projects and publications Be Like Teflon (2019) and Recipes for Resistance (2020) and wider contexts and concerns relating to the marginalisation of genders and sexualities, through the lens of South Asian identity.
The session aims to further strategise on how we actively (continue to) create inclusive feminist spaces, alliances and solidarities amongst marginalised people that allow for a breadth and depth of conversation around varying identities and shared oppressions that manifest differently, especially in light of divisions amongst feminisms.
Expression of Interest
Spaces for this online workshop will be limited to maintain a mood of intimacy and exchange. If you would like to take part, please send a short Expression of Interest by Monday 15th November to feministduration@gmail.com.
We will let you know by Monday 22nd November if you have been selected, and will then provide further details of the session.
Jasleen Kaur
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Jasleen is an artist based in London. Her work is an ongoing exploration into the malleability of culture and the layering of social histories within the material and immaterial things that surround us. Her practice examines diasporic identity and hierarchies of history, both colonial and personal. She works with sculpture, video and writing. Recent and upcoming commissions include Wellcome Collection, UP Projects, Glasgow Women’s Library, Market Gallery, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Eastside Projects and Hollybush Gardens. Her work is part of the permanent collection of Touchstones Rochdale, Royal College of Art and Crafts Council.
Raju Rage
Born in Kenya, raised in London and living/working beyond, Raju explores the spaces and relationships between dis/connected bodies, theory and practice, text and the body and aesthetics and the political substance. Their current interests are around sustainability, economies, care, and resistance. They are a member of Collective Creativity arts collective and are a creative educator and independent scholar with an interest in radical pedagogy. Raju has a theirstory in activism, self and collective organised queer/ transgender/ people of colour movements and creative projects in London and beyond from which their politics and works draw on and from. They have trained as a pastry chef and baker, worked in several community kitchens and been part of a bakers’ collective.
Feminist Duration
This event is part of the Feminist Duration series which explores under-known texts, ideas, and movements associated with earlier periods of feminist activity in the UK. Originally designed as part of a year-long residency at the South London Gallery, and rescheduled online in the wake of the COVID pandemic, the programme juxtaposes earlier moments of feminist with current urgencies and struggles.
By restoring material texture to overlooked political and cultural movements, it seeks to resist versions of the past that reduce feminist struggle to one-dimensional stereotypes. Looking to the past to activate its nascent potential, the programme aims to identify tools that can inspire and enrich further collective action, promoting the intergenerational exchange of knowledge and experience. While honouring earlier feminisms, the series also highlights how collaboration, difference, and dissent have characterised previous feminist movements, and how feminists have both negotiated, and failed to significantly attend to, differences between themselves.
Feminist Duration is generously supported by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership.
Image: Jasleen Kaur, Be Like Teflon, Glasgow Women’s Library, 2019
