Jackie Abhulimen

Jackie Abhulimen is a writer, activist and cultural worker from Athens, Greece. Spanning over a decade, her social justice work is centered on dismantling the inequities that shape the migrant experience in Greece, with a particular focus on securing the rights of the second generation. She has a background in advocacy within NGOs where her work involved political activism, social solidarity and civic engagement.

She currently works in cultural programming where her focus has been on creating infrastructure and facilitating space for the lived experiences of Black people in Greece. She received her BA in Development and Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, UK and is set to receive her MA in Performance Studies from New York University.

Title of Project

Situations

Description of Project

Situations is a compilation of poems, or a showing of where my thoughts have been wandering as we’ve moved through a year of study and gathering. Infused with resonances of my past, present and future experiences, these poems now mark the Situations I find myself in.

Project Inspiration

The poems in Situations draw inspiration from all this thinking we stay doing. Harryette Mullen’s Muse & Drudge is a forever inspiration that I hold dear to me as I move through this thing called life. The structure of the compilation takes inspiration from The Making of the Pré by Francis Ponge. And finally these words from Octavia Butler’s private journals:

So be it!

See to it!

Areas of Academic Interest

Black Studies, Performance Studies, Visual Culture, Poetics, Critical Theory and Queer Theory