Selected Work

WritinG:
Essay: 'Communism's Promise' in Feminism For the World, Pluto Press, (2025)
Essay: 'Blasphemous Connections' in Our Eyes as Commonly Tender: Visual Justice in the Filmmaking of Pratibha Parmar, Sming Sming Books, (2025)
Text: 'Orange Peel' in Airless Space, Shulasmith Firestone (2025)
Text: Unruly Kinships, edited by Kris Dittel, Aneta Rostkowska, Jap Sam Books, (2025)
Review: Poetic Improvisations: Grace Nissan's 'The Utopians' and Karenjit Sandhu's 'gestalt', Poetry Society, (2025)
Review: Why Barbara Walker's Black Subjects Deserve More Than Just Visibility (2024)
Review: Everything for Everybody: Writing Toward Freedom, Wasafiri (2024)
Review: Survival is A Promise by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, The Guardian, (2024)
Poem: YOUR DEMISE PRECEDES THE WORLD'S, Protean Mag, (2024)
Text in Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama / Hail the Dark Lioness Vol. II, Aperture, (2024).
Tentacular Thinking: On Nonviolence, Extra Extra Magazine, (2024)
Hungry Work, Vittles Magazine, (2024)
Review: Cat Chong, Brendan Joyce and Sabeen Chaudhry, Poetry Review, (2024)
GIVE UP THE GRAND NARRATIVE, Black Atlantic Museum, Afterall Journal (2022)
The collective body: choral reimaginings of the social space, Architectural Review, (2022) 
Watery Commons: Notes on the Loophole of Retreat Venice, THE STUART PAPERS, Iniva, (2022)
Practice Makes Perfect: Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Focal Point Gallery (2021)
Frida Orupabo, ed. Stefanie Hessler, Stenberg Press (2021)
Preface: Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile, Marika Sherwood, Lawrence and Wishart (2021)
DISGRACE: Feminism & The Political Right, Arcadia Missa Publications (2021) 
Distortions, LUX: This Broken Piece of Yard, Curated by Cairo Clarke (2021)
Hours Against the Clock: On the Politics of Laziness, Autonomy (2021)
Review: Fovea/ Ages Ago by Sarah Lasoye (2021)
'Red', Wasafari Magazine (2020) 
Not this earth, in Somesuch Stories #Issue 5, (2020)
We can enact the future we want now: a black feminist history of abolition, The Guardian (2020)
THE BARE MINIMUM MANIFESTO (2020)
terra firma/terra infirma, Map Magazine (2019)
A FLY Girl’s Guide to University: Being a Woman of Colour at Cambridge and Other Institutions of Power and Elitism, (Co-author, Verve Poetry Press, (2019)

INTERVIEWS:
Interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Alexis De Veaux, Buffalo Zine, (2024)
Faces of Feminism: Lola Olufemi and Lynne Segal, Red Pepper Magazine (2024)
Lola Olufemi, Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley: A Politics of Identity, Surviving Society Podcast (2023)
The Radical Power of the Imagination,  Tenders Buttons Podcast (2022)
In Conversation with Sophie Lewis – Abolish the Family! , London Review of Books, (2022)
In Conversation with Preti Taneja – Aftermath, London Review of Books, (2022)   
Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile – in conversation with Jade Bentil and Jumanah Younis (2022)
Interview, TANK MAGAZINE, (2022)    
Wasafiri Wonders: Lola Olufemi (2022)
Crystals of this Social Substance: A conversation with Jay Bernard, Serpentine Galleries, (2021)
In Conversation with Abeera Khan – Experiments in Imagining Otherwise Book Launch, ICA, (2021)
In Conversation with Languid Hands (2021)
Anticapitalism and The Imagination: In conversation with Harsha Walia and Gargi Bhattacharyya, The Left Book Club, (2020)
In Conversation with Saidiya Hartman – Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, London Review of Books (2020)
In Conversation with Francoise Verges – A Decolonial Feminism, Pluto Press (2020)
A Kick in the Belly, In Conversation with Stella Dadzie, Feminist Library (2020)
"I'm trying to break down the binary of thinking and feeling", Sin Wai Kin, Sleek Magazine (2020)
Revolution is not a one-time event, The White Review, (2020)
Feminism Interrupted: Interview by Momtaza Mehri (2020)

LECTURES AND ACADEMIC WRITING:
Olufemi, L. (2025). Everything I know about Sylvia Erike: Recurrence, imagination and the punctum. Feminist Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789251367690
‘La promesse du communisme’ in Ganger Le Monde: sur quelques heritages feministes, La Fabrique Editions, (2023)
‘Withering the State Machine’ in Marx’s Others: Bodies, Affects, Experience, edited by Edith Otero Quezada and Vanessa Lara Ullrich, Transcript Verlag, 2024.
Keynote: What is the structure of everyday? - Abolition Feminism: Breaking Free of the Master's Tools Conference (2022)
'On Imagining', Trans*National Black Feminisms Conference, Cambridge University (2022)
Conference Presentation, 'Withering the State Machine: Echoes and Temporal Reverberations in the Work of Karl Marx, Olive Morris and Sisters Uncut.' Confronting the Spectres of Marx Conference, University of Bielefeld (2022)
Conference Presentation, 'Scenes from a Marriage: Art Writing in Dialogue', Association for Art History Conference, (2022)
'Interweaving Structures', University of Bergen research project in collaboration with the Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz, Poland (2022)
'EXPERIMENTS IN IMAGINING OTHERWISE: past (present/future), present (future/past), future (past/present)', The Department of Art History, University of Toronto (2022)
'Against Coloniality' - Techne Student-led Conference: On Transversality in Practice and Research (2020)
'Everyday atrocity', Autograph PILOT: Rights, Care, Future, (2020)
'A Class on Imagining,' University of Dundee (2020)
'Reflections on Black Feminist Organising', Pathways to Liberation: Celebrating Black British Feminisms, Cambridge University, (2019)

CURATION:
HOW DO WE ESCAPE, SUBVERT, DESTROY THE GENDER REGIME? (2025)
Learning Programme accompanying Zanele Muholi Faces and Phases Exhibition.
Queer Circle
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What constitutes a feminist act of resistance? (2024)
Learning Programme
South London Gallery
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THIS WORLD MAKES US SICK
Programme designed by bare minimum collective
INSTITUTE OF THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS (2021)
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LUMEN
Learning Programme Co-curated with Alina Khahoo
KETTLE'S YARD (2021)
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Abolition: In Defence of Translation
Programme co-curated with Imani Robinson
SOMERSET HOUSE (2021)
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Itinerant Imaginaries: 
Creating Interference and BAN Art Network
(2021)
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In Words, In Action, In Communities: Learning Pack
MOSTYN GALLERY (2021)
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Revolution is not a one-time event 
Series of online events 
Silver Press (2020)
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