Lola Olufemi


Lola Olufemi, is a writer and activist from London, UK. They are an organiser with the London Feminist Library, and their writing has been published in many national and international magazines and newspapers. She co-edited A FLY Girl's Guide to University: Being a Woman of Colour at Cambridge and Other Institutions of Power and Elitism in 2019, and her book Feminism Interrupted was published by Pluto Press in 2020.

Work

Writing and speaking

Olufemi has written and spoken on a range of topics including: art and culture; feminism, gender and sexism ; food equality; climate justice and race; race and racism, including archives of radical Black British activism; and higher education issues, including institutional justice and sexual harassment in universities, and decolonising practices in higher education.

Books

Olufemi is a member of "bare minimum", an interdisciplinary, anti-work arts collective. She has been commissioned by Tate Modern to run a feminist workshop as part of a Feminist Library event.

Influences

Olufemi cites several key feminist, trans-inclusive, and Black feminist thinkers and collectives that have influenced her, in interviews and her writing, including: Angela Davis, Ann Oakley, Assata Shakur, Audre Lorde, the Brixton Black Women’s Group, the British Black Panthers, Claudia Jones, the Combahee River Collective, Gail Lewis, the Grunwick Strikers, Judith Butler, Kate Millett, Liz Obi, Olive Morris, OWAAD, Saidya Hartman, Stella Dadzie, Shulamith Firestone, Silvia Federici, Selma James, the Young Lords, and Sylvia Wynter.

Personal life

Olufemi was born and grew up in London, attended Enfield County School, and studied English at Selwyn College, Cambridge She was the Women's Officer for Cambridge University Students' Union, and co-founder of FLY, the university’s network for women and non-binary people of colour.