about

Jade Bentil is a Black Feminist Historian, writer and public speaker whose work seeks to map the genealogies of Black women's refusal and resistance, both in Britain and throughout the Black diaspora.

She is currently a DPhil candidate in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and Prospect Magazine. Jade is currently working on her first book, REBEL CITIZEN, an oral history based project focusing on the intimate recollections and experiences of Black women of African and Caribbean descent who migrated to Britain following the Second World War. REBEL CITIZEN will be published by Penguin Press in 2022.