Ama Josephine Budge - Writer / Artist / Curator
Ama Josephine Budge is a British-Ghanaian Speculative Writer, Artist, Curator and Pleasure Activist who explores the kinships between Blackness, feminism, decolonial aesthetics, queer erotics and ecology to form a praxis she has named Intimate Ecologies, working toward liberatory interspecies futures.
Usually based in London, Ama can also be found loitering around the fried egg stalls of Accra, or gallery bookshops in New York City.
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Ama Josephine Budge - Writer / Artist / Curator
Ama Josephine Budge is a Speculative Writer, Artist, Curator and Pleasure Activist whose praxis navigates intimate explorations of race, art, ecology and feminism, working to activate movements that catalyse human rights, environmental evolutions and troublesomely queered identities...
Usually based in London, Ama can also be found loitering around the fried egg stalls of Accra, or gallery bookshops in New York City.
For speaking invitations: assistant@amajosephine.me
For projects proposals:
ama@amajosephine.me
Insta @amajosephine
Twitter @pleasureproff
Recent/Upcoming Events
Science Fiction as Activism: Queer Futures / Future Queers
Queer Youth Art Collective
Open-to-all writing workshop in which we will co-create a shared space to dream the future worlds, loves, chosen families, and interspecies kin that could shape our queer futures. We will have fun with absurd microfictions, collectively build future queer characters and worlds for them to thrive in and begin a short story of your very own.
18 February 2024.
Space | Time | Life: a gathering
Wysing Arts Centre
reading from an exclusive extract of my in-progress novella ‘Dawn in Arborellum’
09 February 2024.
International Black Speculative Writing Festival
Goldsmiths University
Science Fiction as Activism Writing Workshop by Ama Josephine Budge.
02 February 2024.
The Roots of Our Hands as Deep as Revolt: entangled colonialities of the green
Nyabinghi Lab
Artist talk with Ama Josephine Budge, discussing her work 'DeComPosure' in conversation with Aouefa Amoussouvi.
13 January 2024
Black Ecology: Resistance, Poetics and Imaginaries
Nyabinghi Lab
“The Resiliency Garden is a reimagining of space and an example of what can happen when Black people take control of space and regenerate it as a catalyst for freedom, healing, and liberation. The space lives at the intersection of food, climate, and racial justice and is an homage to a future that serves us all, not just a select few.” – Duron Chavis (urban farmer, educator, change maker)
26 November 2023
Recent Publications
Sans titre : une incantation pour les futures mères
Coming Soon Exhibition Catalogue
Lafayette Anticipations
2024
Read here
Pollination as Praxis: The
Queer Temporalities of
Intimate Ecologies
INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries
2023
read here
Locating Blackness In Intimate Ecologies
C& and C&AL Print Issue #12
2023
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Subtle Intimacies – Insistent Shadows
UNCHORUS, Freelands Foundation
2023
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