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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. 

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For speaking invitations: assistant@amajosephine.me

For projects proposals: 

ama@amajosephine.me
Insta @amajosephine
Twitter  @pleasureproff 


Recent/Upcoming Events
 

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Dark Water Thames: Twixt Land and Sea, Past and Present
Orleans House Gallery
During this event Ama invites you to join her on a river walk where you will gift the ‘anti-monument’ back to the water as you think about how the river is as a site of history, folklore and possibility. There is also the opportunity to remember the stories of those who arrived upon its shores filled with dreams and those for whom the Thames is a sacred passage between past, present and future. 

After the river walk there will be refreshments, a film screening and talk by academics from St Mary’s University at Orleans House Gallery.  

9 November 2024

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Dream This Silly
QueerCircle
This Autumn, one hundred and forty LGBTQ artists aged 18-28 are coming together from across the UK to exhibit at QUEERCIRCLE. With no judging panel, we have accepted all works submitted, in aid of building careers, confidence and creative community and removing barriers to the arts. 

October 04 - December 06

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Intimate Ecologies: a Black feminist erotics for interspecies un/worlding

Feminist Lecture Program
This talk draws on a richly textured landscape of Black feminist; queer and Native theory visual cultures;  postnatural studies
and decolonial environmental humanities.Participants will be invited to re-think binary subject positions such as ""the human"" and ""nature"" in a speculative rehearsal of liberatory interspecies futures where, as adrienne maree brown has called for: the pleasure of the most oppressed is centred. In such an un/world, I argue, we can all thrive. This session offers an introduction to speculative writer, artist and scholar Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone's research and practice: Intimate Ecologies.


22nd April 2024.

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Black to the Future Panel

Brown Suga
Celebrate March's International Women's Day, with queer women and non-binary folx. Led and curated by queer Black and POC folx! We will be having a Black to The Future discussion with topics surrounding Afrofuturism and Black women in the film industry with renowned writers, and actors from 7:30 pm.
23rd March 2024.

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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.

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Space | Time | Life: a gathering
Wysing Arts Centre
 reading from an exclusive extract of my in-progress novella ‘Dawn in Arborellum’
09 February 2024.

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International Black Speculative Writing Festival
Goldsmiths University
Science Fiction as Activism Writing Workshop by Ama Josephine Budge.
02 February 2024.

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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

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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

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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
read here

Subtle Intimacies – Insistent Shadows

UNCHORUS, Freelands Foundation

2023
read here

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Ama Josephine Budge's A Shoal of Lovers Leads me Home is aheady, hopeful sensorium" 

- Michael Matheson, Anathema: Spec from the Margins

“Ama is exactly the kind of young writer we need, innovative, daring, fantastical and delicious, the UK’s N.K Jemisin meets Tomi Adeyemi.”
- Tosin Coker, The Mouth of Babes

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