On Sunday 26 April 2026, 11am–1pm.
Join British-Ghanaian speculative writer, artist, scholar and pleasure activist Dr. Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone for 'Intimate Ecologies: Diving Through Liquid Landscapes of Blackness, Ecology, Speculation, and Queer Futures.' In response to climate colonialism, this talk explores what becomes possible when we imagine Blackness and the more-than-human in liberatory, decolonial, and pleasurable ways. Through storytelling, visioning exercises, and collective reflection, participants will be invited to engage with new ways of thinking about ecological futures rooted in care and connection.
Tickets: Concession & Members £5 | General Admission £10.
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About Dr. Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone
Dr. Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone is a British-Ghanaian speculative writer, artist, scholar and pleasure activist whose praxis navigates that which she has termed Intimate Ecologies to explore Blackness, erotics and the more-than-human in queer and speculative ways toward interspecies futures. Ama’s short stories, art writing and essays have been commissioned and published widely by the likes of Tate Modern, Contemporary&, Aperture, the Independent, Whitechapel, Duke University Press, the Feminist Review and more, and translated into Twi, French, German and Swedish. She has exhibited video and installation work internationally, was selected as a 2025 Tin House Fellow, as well as for the 2024 PerforCraze artist residency (Ghana); 2023 Postnatural Independent Programme (Madrid); the 2020-22 Local, International and Planetary Fictions Fellow with Frame Contemporary Art Finland and EVA International (Ireland); and the 2020/21 Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism with Bard College (New York). Ama is currently a Lecturer in Culture, Criticism and Curation Central Saint Martins (UAL) in London, an MFA tutor at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, and a Research Associate at VIAD (University of Johannesburg). She was recently awarded a PhD from Birkbeck University of London.
https://www.amajosephine.me / Instagram @amajosephine / X @PleasureProf
