brilliant book i keep recommending hajarpress.squarespace.com/books/experi... lola builds on (british) Black radical tradition liberating imaginations

📚👆🏼 Some photos of that beautiful book, published by the great @hajarpress.bsky.social

One of my favourite books ever!

From 2021:

"I feel embarrassed when I say feminism and people do not think revolution in service of every living thing. I think I will spend my life trying to rectify this." - Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

What a beautiful launch last night at @pagesofhackney.bsky.social for Nida Sajid’s debut fiction book, 𝘊𝘖𝘖𝘗: 𝘈 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦! We delved into conversations about words, structures, glimpses and perspectives, and the power of blossoming communities 🌸 𝘊𝘖𝘖𝘗 is available now! www.hajarpress.com/books/coop

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Coop by Nida Sajid (@hajarpress.bsky.social) & Forget the Camel: The Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say about Being Human by Elizabeth MeLampy (@apollopublishers.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish #booktok #booklovers

We’re open for submissions for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘫𝘢𝘳 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴! 🌀 How do waves shape our lives? From tides of time to flows of migration, surges of emotion to cycles of organising, waves keep us moving, changing, repeating and renewing 🌊 Send us your writing by 5th March! www.hajarpress.com/submissions

🗣️🗣️ It’s the book everyone’s talking about — 𝘊𝘖𝘖𝘗: 𝘈 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 is OUT NOW! A story about work, communication, insipid liberal posturing, & the ways we find freedom in the tightest spaces ⛓️‍💥 Buy yours TODAY to have it shipped before we close for the holidays tomorrow! 💁🏾‍♀️ www.hajarpress.com/books/coop

𝘊𝘖𝘖𝘗 by Nida Sajid is officially out tomorrow! There is so much buzz around this book — MULTIPLE people who stopped by the Tower Hamlets Book Sale said they’d come specifically for this!!! — and we can’t wait for it to finally hit the shelves 😌 www.hajarpress.com/books/coop [1/2]

Hurrryy our sale ends tomorrow! This is your last chance to buy books before we close for the end of the year 😱 What are you waiting for??? ⌛️ www.hajarpress.com/books

The Palestine hunger strikers are going to die if there is no intervention from this Labour government. Keir Starmer and David Lammy, blood will be on your hands.

It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the situation is in the UK. There are eight people on hunger strike and David Lammy recently claimed he wasn’t even aware of it. That hunger strikers may actually die is barely even news.

Solidarity with the hunger strikers. It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction. All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.

We’re doing a book launch for COOP at @pagesofhackney.bsky.social on 28 January and you can book your spot now! Nida Sajid will be in conversation with Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi — we can’t wait 🥹🥹 events.humanitix.com/coop-nida-sa...

Looking for the perfect present? Our holiday gift guide will sort you out 🤗 From experimental fiction to writing that stirs the soul, there’s something here for everyone 🎁 (Psst, all these books and more are 30% off on our website till 16 December!) www.hajarpress.com/the-hajar-pr...

Make sure to put your orders through ASAP before we go on break on December 10th! 📚 Discover excellent experimental literatures that prioritise radical, anti-colonial, anti-racist, and late modernist voices 🎁 Order online at our bookshop or anywhere else that sells books: the87press.co.uk/shop

For Read Palestine Week, we’re offering 40% off our Palestinian literature bundle, 𝔽ℝ𝕆𝕄 𝕋ℍ𝔼 ℝ𝕀𝕍𝔼ℝ 𝕋𝕆 𝕋ℍ𝔼 𝕊𝔼𝔸. And this week only, all E-BOOKS in this bundle are FREE. Why not buy the bundle as a gift and enjoy the e-book versions yourself 📖❤️ www.hajarpress.com/bundles/p/fr...

END OF YEAR SALE!!! 📚🎁📚🎁📚🎁📚 Do you like stunning political literature? Do your friends like stunning political literature? Say no more 🙏🏾 We're giving you 30% off all books till 16 December 😘 www.hajarpress.com/books/

‘It’s the language of trying to accommodate power … rather than the language of the people.’ Saima Begum speaks on the language of academic neutrality at the launch of her debut novel, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘑𝘢𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴.

A moving launch for The First Jasmines last night. Heartfelt thanks to Shahnaz Ahsan for holding the conversation with such love and tenderness, to @housmansbookshop.bsky.social for hosting us, and to everyone who came and listened to the stories of the women of the Bangladesh Liberation War.

📚🎙️ "The women, instead of being seen, they are in many ways weaponised in history to serve a different means for different groups of people." A conversation with Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’ and #Bangladesh’s birangona women: buff.ly/62hvcxh

ICYMI: The co-founders of 404 Ink will release a final title under their tenure, titled Publisher Not Found: A Decade of Disruption, 404 Ink 2016-2026 👇 #BookSky

Lena’s friend Bell doesn’t hold back behind the till at the bookshop 👀🤭 𖦹°⭒˚ೃ࿔ A preview reading by Nida Sajid from 𝘾𝙊𝙊𝙋 at the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair 💫 𝘾𝙊𝙊𝙋 — a novelette on work and words, and how they distort the world — is out on 18 December! www.hajarpress.com/books/coop

What could be better on a winter’s day than the cosy warmth of community?? 🫂 Come visit Hajar, @thecommonpress.bsky.social, @peoplesletters.bsky.social + more @ the Tower Hamlets BOOK SALE! ❄️📚🧵💎📓🪡🧶✨ Sat 6 Dec, 10am–2pm Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives 277 Bancroft Road London E1 4DQ

It’s been a beautiful weekend being up in Edinburgh for the Radical Book Fair and a special creative writing workshop around The Hajar Book of Rage 🥰 Love and gratitude to all the amazing people at @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social and PublishED for all your care and hard work ❤️‍🔥

Mymona Bibi reads from her poem ‘Application for Social Housing in Tower Hamlets’, published in ‘The Hajar Book of Rage’, at the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair 2025. www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Zena Agha, part of the White Kite Collective - Messages from Gaza is at @stratfordeast.com on 8th November 'We're not only conduits of the texts but also memory-keepers, holding onto these histories of people living and dead.'

What a beautiful book club session last week at Housmans Radical Booksellers. Thank you to everyone who came, and thank you Heba Hayek, author of Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, for sharing this lovely work and your lovely self with us 💖

This week’s spotlight is on Hajar Press, an inspiring indie publisher founded by and for people of colour. They’re reshaping the publishing landscape with their bold and genre-blurring books!!📚 Read more in our latest issue! www.thepublishingpost.com/post/spotlig...

Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair is NEXT WEEK! As well as a jam-packed program - over 20 events! - we’re filling Assembly Roxy with BOOKS, community, and publisher stalls. 📚 Stalls feature over 70 publishers & 50 writers speaking - a treasure trove of bookish delights awaits!📚

Publishers big & small, from Pluto & Verso & Haymarket to Hajar & Dog Section & Mack Books, from Canongate Books to Luath, Virago to Fitzcarraldo, Freedom Press & Hurst to Iskra. Come browse, buy indie books from an indie bookshop, be inspired!

Following two queer Afghans — Delbar and Mansur — whose paths converge in Istanbul, Bobuq Sayed’s piercing debut, NO GOD BUT US, is a story of boundaries crossed, the violence of borders and heteronormativity, and the intricacies of love and power in family, friendship and romance.

What do we carry from one year to the next? In her debut collection, OCTOBER, Nur Turkmani meditates on rupture and transformation through cycles of Lebanon’s Octobers, from the euphoria of the 2019 revolution, to its anniversaries marked by crisis, war and the genocide in Gaza.

I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social

'Rage is often a result of perceived impotence to be able to affect change, but this book offers purpose and focus: a call to arms.' The @hajarpress.bsky.social Book of Rage is out today – our review, by Alistair Braidwood www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...

🔥 It’s heeeere! The Hajar Book of Rage is out today! Igniting the first spark in the ‘elements’ anthology series, this is a searing tribute to the fires of anger that fuel our resistance 🔥 Get your copy now ☄️☄️☄️ www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...

“The women were able to resist the tyranny of the mind because they were able to use their own words for what it meant to be free, what it meant to survive, what it meant to escape.” Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:

“The women, instead of being seen, are weaponised in history to serve a different means for different groups of people.” A conversation with #British-#Bangladeshi writer Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:

#Bangladesh #history #LiberationWar “There were hundreds of thousands of women who had been raped. But then I couldn’t find them anywhere, not in history books or testimonies.” A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:

“This story of 1971 can be applied to many other histories, just as the histories of women who are raped during war in other countries can inform this history.” A conversation with Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:

“What I wanted to do with ‘The First Jasmines’ is to enter it into a conversation where the women are not just victims, but that they should also be given a front row seat into what it means to define the public memory of the war.” Saima Begum on the #biragona women of #Bangladesh:

Not often I get a chance to grab a physical copy of The Skinny but nice to see two titles I've typset recently (La Lucha and The Hajar Book of Rage) getting their deserved props. Unsurprisingly, it's a time for rage-fuelled non-ficition again (not that it ever stopped)

‘This book offers purpose and focus: a call to arms … a place where historical injustice and present-day horrors sit side by side, and where the personal meets the universal.’ Grateful to @theskinnymag.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of The Hajar Book of Rage: theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...

Autumn is looking eventful! 🍁 Join us for a workshop and a cabaret to launch The Hajar Book of Rage; a conversation about political literature in the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair; and another celebration of The First Jasmines at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 hajarpress.com/events

Saima Begum reading from her debut novel, The First Jasmines. Set in 1971, it tells the stories of the women captured and abused by the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Full video from the book launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plwz...

📣 We’re hiring a Community Coordinator! If you have ⭐️ an understanding of Hajar’s mission ⭐️ experience in community engagement ⭐️ excellent communication & organisational skills ⭐️ the ability to work proactively in a small team Apply by 7 Nov www.hajarpress.com/jobs Part-time 10–14 hrs/wk £17.10/hr

The launch event at Root25 for Saima Begum's new novel, The First Jasmines, was beautiful. Thank you so much to everyone who came through and joined in the conversation with us 💚 If you missed it, you can now catch up on YouTube 💫 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plwz...

🎉 Happy publication day to Saima Begum! 👏🏾 THE FIRST JASMINES reveals the lives and experiences of the hundreds of thousands of women captured and abused by the Pakistan Army during the 1971 Bangladeshi Liberation War. Available now. www.hajarpress.com/books/the-fi...

hajar press is consistently publishing some of the most beautiful radical & visionary writing out there !!!! cannot recommend We, the Heartbroken and Experiments in Imagining Otherwise enough!!!!