Quantum Woman: immigrant, black, female, exiled from home and unable to confirm whether home is home.
– From I Cried, Power! (On Protest and Masterful Citizenship)
Since her debut as a poet in 2014, Somali-born and US-based poet Ladan Osman has explored race and gender, exile and dislocation, and the legacy of colonialism. Now, in an increasingly polarized and hostile country, she is forced to ask: Where is home when your home turns against you?
Ladan Osman is the author of award-winning poetry collections Exiles of Eden and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony, currently working on an essay collection about dislocation and exile. In this personal talk, she reflects on belonging and displacement, finding community and building resistance in the space between cultures.
The lecture will be in English.
The event is supported by NORAD.
