Afua Hirsch: What Reclaiming Your Body Really Means

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Watch The Observer Book Club event with with writer, broadcaster and lawyer Afua Hirsch as as she returns to her acclaimed book Decolonising My Body, now out in paperback and available for purchase here: https://observershop.co.uk/decolonising-my-body-9781529954197/ Blending memoir, history, cultural criticism and on-the-ground reportage, Hirsch traces how colonial and patriarchal ideas about race, beauty, gender and power have been inscribed on her body - and how she has begun to reclaim it. From Eurocentric beauty standards to the politics of hair, she examines the ways colonial thinking still shapes how we see ourselves and each other.