The iconic Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John, co-author of Lesbians Talk Making Black Waves, will be in conversation with Nazmia Jamal at The Feminist Library as part of the Lesbians Talk Issues Revisited project on Wednesday 1st October 2025. Booking is essential.
Dr. Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John is a public speaker and master trainer in the field of conflict transformation, leadership and mindfulness. She is also an award-winning playwright, actress, author, performance poet, film-maker, editor, activist and many other things beside. In 2000 she supported the founding of what became the Rukus! Black LGBT Archive. Valerie has been a force in shaping and recording Black British lesbian life, editing Talking Black: Lesbians of African and Asian Descent Speak Out (Cassell, 1995) and co-authoring the first book on Black British lesbian experiences, Lesbians Talk Making Black Waves (Scarlett Press, 1993).
Nazmia Jamal is a London based researcher whose project Lesbians Talk Issues Revisited aims to create intergenerational discussion about feminism in Britain using the 1990s pamphlet series, Lesbians Talk Issues, as a focus. She is the Paul Mellon Centre's New Narratives Doctoral Scholar 2025-2028 and is working on a PhD about Sheba Feminist Publishers.
This event is funded by LGBT Consortium's LGBT+ Futures Equity Fund. This fund has also supported the Lesbian Talks Issues Revisited project to digitise all seven pamphlets, which are now available through the Bishopsgate Institute's online archive and a monthly reading group at The Old Nun's Head where we are working through the pamphlet series. Information about our other events can be found here.
All proceeds from ticket price will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestine.