anna osarose

anna - writer, educator, creative.

anna's work focuses on the black British experience in literature and film. Her practiced-based research project explores radical love and rest in Ngozi Onwurah and Maureen Blackwood’s films. She specifically looks at love and rest from racial trauma and how this is depicted and embodied behind the camera lens and on screen through the creative practices of storytelling and making.  Her research is multimodal drawing on a range of methods (including film, image and prose) to unpick the complexities yet rich nuances of radical love and rest.

anna's work seeks to challenge typical structures in academic practice by centring marginalised voices and their creative practices.  Her research is interdisciplinary and draws on methodologies and theories developed in literature, black studies, film and cultural studies, media, history, and black feminism.  anna's work and research is centred around the power of the arts and its transformative, liberatory qualities that calls us to reimagine and create.

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One of the pillars that upholds anna's research is the concept of 'The Space' - not a fully definitive idea but working concept that she uses to describe a site of liminality where identity is negotiated; a simultaneous state of belonging and not belonging; continuity and change; mental architecture that is created as a result of not fitting into an existing category; a place where people are racialised as black and brown; not being one or the other; not quite fitting in; a place where people feel; where desires to belong and not be a stranger are formed; being and not being; where home is made; the pressure and expectations to survive and belong; a liminal site where imagined communities are constructed. - (anna osarose, 2022).