\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThis book should have been written three years ago. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But these truths were a fire in me then. Now I can tell them without being burned.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For decades, Frantz Fanon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0Black Skin, White Masks<\/em> (1952) has caused controversy, not least amongst feminists and the LBGTQ+ community, for its direct address to the reader to feel the violence and directness of inequities enmeshed in the colonised Black male body. Born in the French colony of Martinique, taught by Aim\u00c3\u00a9 C\u00c3\u00a9saire, trained in psychiatry by Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Tosquelles in France, and at work at Blida-Joinville, a psychiatric hospital in French colonial Algeria at the start of the Algerian revolution, Fanon was a doctor, a philosopher, and an anti-imperialist whose life was dedicated to revolutionary practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This group will combined close readings of the text, secondary readings and guests whose artistic and curatorial work has been influenced by Fanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"