Redefining beauty

Funmi Fetto, a former Acting Beauty Director of British Vogue, is now Contributing Editor at British Vogue and Beauty Columnist/Beauty Director at the Observer Magazine.

Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian academic, activist and broadcaster. She spent over a decade as a teaching fellow in the African department at SOAS. She is a final-year Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, and author of the Sunday Times bestseller ‘What White People Can Do Next’ and ‘Don’t Touch My Hair’. In 2023 she was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has presented several television and radio programmes, including BBC Radio 4’s critically acclaimed documentaries ‘Journeys into Afro-Futurism’ and ‘Britain’s Lost Masterpieces’, and ‘Hair Power’ for Channel 4, which won a Cannes Silver Lion award. She is a Contributing Editor at Elle and runs the Instagram account Disobedient Bodies.

Narcissister is a Brooklyn-based artist and performer. Wearing mask and merkin, she works at the intersection of contemporary dance, visual art and activism. She actively integrates her prior experience as a professional dancer and commercial artist with her art practice in a range of media including live performance, collage, sculpture, video, film and experimental music.

Jennifer Ling Datchuk is an artist born in Warren, Ohio and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is an exploration of her layered identity – as a woman, a Chinese woman, as an ‘American’, as a third culture kid. Trained in ceramics, Datchuk works with porcelain and other materials often associated with traditional women’s work, such as textiles and hair. Through these materials, she explores how Western beauty standards influenced the East, how the non-white body is commodified and sold, and how women’s – globally, girls’ – work is still a major economic driver whose workers still struggle for equality.

Ebony Rose Dark is your VIP/Visually Impaired Cabaret and Dance Performance Artist whose works explore topics such as disability, race and gender through movement, song, lip sync, mime and audience banter.