The acclaimed writer and thinker behind ‘They Call It Love’ talks to Lola Olufemi about the emotional politics of the housing crisis.
Feeling at Home is an essential intervention in the contemporary discourse at the intersection between emotional politics and the housing crisis – questions of domestic labour, security and health. Grappling with the meaning of home, where our hopes and dreams play out and our conception of a good and dignified life is set, Gotby shows that solving the housing crisis is about much more than housing stock.
Alva Gotby is a writer and organiser living in London. Her first book, They Call It Love, was published in 2023. She holds a PhD from the University of West London and writes about feminist theory, social reproduction, housing, emotions, and family. She is active in struggles for better homes for all.
Dr Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and researcher from London. She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power and Experiments in Imagining Otherwise. Her writing has been published by Afterall Journal, Architectural Review, Wasafiri, Stenberg Press, and Aperture, among many others.
This event will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
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