The F Less Travelled… with Dr Akanksha Mehta and Chloe Turner.

Chloe Turner is a writer, curator and PhD researcher. As of September 2021, Chloe is an Associate Lecturer in both the Design Department at LCC, University of the Arts London and the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Department at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Dr Akanksha Mehta is a feminist educator, researcher, writer, photographer, and organiser. She is a Lecturer in Gender, Race and Cultural Studies and the co-director of the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. 

Akanksha's book choices:

Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks

Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante

Care Work - Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Akanksha's music choice:

Not so much one song - but a whole genre of women singing ghazal, qawwali, sufi, kafi music (in Urdu-Punjabi-Hindi)

Akanksha's object:

Grandmother's shawls/scarfs

Chloe's book choices:

Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girls Notes from the End of the World by  Kai Cheng Thom

Chloe's music choice:

Madison Moore's DJ lecture sets

Chloe's object:

Grandmother's rhubarb plant

Additional notes:

Follow us on twitter @f_travelled and tweet us with your feminist companions with #ThisIsMyCanon

Music and sound production by Ruari Paterson-Achenbach

Artwork by Katharine Davies-Herbst

The F Less Travelled...Tracing Feminist Pathways is brought to you in collaboration with The Centre for Feminist Research and with support from the Centre for Urban and Community Research and Methods Labs, all based at Goldsmiths.

To make our conversations more accessible, we include a transcript with every episode. Read our conversation with Akanksha and Chloe here.