Nina Power

Nina Power teaches Philosophy at the University of Roehampton and Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. She is a founding member of Defend the Right to Protest.

We need to talk about how we learn to accept our own oppression

The more women stand up against bullies and harassment in our personal lives, the less we will tolerate them in our political lives too.

By Nina Power

/ 27 Jan 2018

Time does not always heal: state violence and psychic damage

My partner Alfie Meadows was nearly killed when a police officer hit his head with a truncheon at a demo. After Alfie was charged with 'violent disorder', I was so viscerally angry I stopped being able to feel temperature. Part of Transformation's politics of mental health series.

By Nina Power

/ 28 Apr 2014