Jj Fadaka is a writer, facilitator and radical based in Edinburgh. Her writing explores the possibility abolition, feminism, and love give us to create change. Jj uses poetry to speak to the political urgencies we face whilst centering joy-making in building struggles against these.

Jj’s workshops draw on black feminist radical traditions to create space for exploring our desires in a world without barriers. She facilitates creative writing, crafting, world-building workshops and reading/discussion groups. Jj organises events for political education and finding belonging with music, visual arts and performance.

Jj reads and facilitates works across Scotland. She featured in The Skinny and as Poet in Residence for the 2023 StAnza International Poetry Festival. In January 2023, she released her first poetry zine, ‘3 Days in Community’.

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