Love & Affection: The Radical Possibilities of Friendship Between Women of Colour

This chapter was shaped by a series of long-distance conversations that took place in the summer of 2017. Our initial motivation for proposing a joint piece of writing came from a feeling of anxiety that others had begun to record our stories in ways that we did not feel comfortable with. The long blur of our labours began to come into focus and we did not want each other’s work to simply be an end note in another white academic’s history of Western feminism. The reality of trying to write something together proved more difficult than we expected. Trump, Brexit,