Described as one of the "grandmothers" of Black Feminism in the UK, Stella Dadzie will be discussing her latest book A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance in conversation with feminist activist Chardine Taylor-Stone. In A Kick in the Belly Dadzie explores how enslaved women found ways to fight back, how "by sustaining or adapting remembered cultural practices, they ensured that the lives of chattel slaves retained both meaning and purpose. This sense of self gave rise to a sense of agency and over time, both their subtle acts of insubordination and their conscious acts of rebellion came to undermine the very fabric and survival of West Indian slavery." Stella Dadzie is best known for her co-authorship of The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s lives in Britain which won the 1985 Martin Luther King Award for Literature, and was recently re-published by Verso as a Feminist Classic. She is a founder member of OWAAD (Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent), a national umbrella group that emerged in the late 1970s as part of the British Civil Rights movement. Her career as a teacher, writer, artist and education activist spans over 40 years. Book here: www.rmg.co.uk/see-do/exhibitions-events/in-conversation-with-stella-dadzie