CLASS DESCRIPTION
Feminism has long fought patriarchy in its obvious and concrete forms—laws, media, and tradition. However, in the 21st century, patriarchy has found refuge in new systems like authoritarianism and populism, bringing with them new algorithms, popular narratives, and social imaginaries that align with these ideologies. Using the frameworks of Andro-Africanism and Europatriarchy, this lecture explores how masculine culture continues to shape beliefs and attitudes in both direct and indirect ways. By uncovering these new hiding places, we can better understand how patriarchal power operates today and why it’s crucial for feminism to decode and resist these hidden forces.
ABOUT OUR LECTURER
Minna Salami is a program chair and senior fellow at The New Institute. She is the author of Can Feminism Be African? A Most Paradoxical Question (Harper Collins 2025) and Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone (Bloomsbury 2020). She is a co-author of the children’s book The Power Book: What is it, Who Has it, and Why? (Quarto, 2019). Her books and essays are translated into multiple languages and Minna has drawn over a million readers to her award-winning blog, MsAfropolitan.com. Her writing can be found in the Guardian, Project Syndicate, Al Jazeera, and The Philosopher, among many others. She has consulted governments on gender and racial equality and speaks at global institutions including TEDx, the European Commission, Friends of Europe, the Oxford and Cambridge Unions, Yale, and Singularity University at NASA. Minna is a Full Member of the Club of Rome and sits on the council of The Royal Institute of Philosophy. She is a board member of The African Feminist Initiative at Pennsylvania State University and the Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Sahel. She is a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader, and has served as chair for the House of Beautiful Business.
An alumnus of Lund University and SOAS University, Minna has lived in Nigeria, Sweden, Spain, and New York and currently lives between London and Hamburg.
INSTAGRAM: @minnasalami_
WEBSITE: https://msafropolitan.com/
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A Feminist Reclamation of Folk
Monday 19th May
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Monday 26th May
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A History of Queer Women's Hairstyles
Monday 2nd June
Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone (she/her)
Eluding Capture: Shooting and Showing the Black Body from the Heart of Empire
Monday 9th June
Minna Salami (she/her)
From Andro-Africanism to Europatriarchy: Decoding Masculine Power
Monday 16th June
Dr. Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray (she/they)
Alien: A Perfect Queer Organism Film
Monday 23rd June
Daisy McManaman (she/her)
A Girl Resembles a Bunny: A Feminist Re-Analysis of Representations of Women in Playboy
Monday 30th June
Dr. Giulia Palladini (she/her)
Indomitable and Undomesticated: A Feminist Reclamation of the Domestic
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Ithell Colquhoun and The Vital Energies of Land and Body
Monday 14th July
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Whoreticulture: The Sexworker in Western Art
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