Foluke Taylor is a therapist*writer, and author of Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room (2023 W.W. Norton). Her doctoral research at Goldsmiths College focuses on Black feminisms, creative writing, and abolitionist world-building, bringing them together to engage Black feminist poetics in an exploration of therapeutic possibility. Foluke is an accredited practitioner with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is a co-founder and director of Protect Black Women UK (CIC).
Foluke works with artists (including practitioners of therapeutic arts), researchers and activists transnationally. This includes holding space for individuals and groups to support the development of writing life. She has been a collaborator on performance installations across Britain and Europe as part Dr Barby Asante’s Declaration of Independence project and within the film ‘daughter(s) of diaspora’ by Black-feminist artist-researcher Dr Nydia Swaby. Underpinning Foluke’s work is a commitment to invest in spaces that nurture emergent formations. As such, she is a big fan of dancefloors, living rooms, and kitchen tables.
Some of her other publications include: A Note From the Annotator (when the reading kills you) in Slow Technology Reader: A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures (2025, valiz NL); Lively up we self: A portal, some letters, and a black feminist chorus (with Gail Lewis) in Black women, trauma and therapy: Revolutionising therapeutic thought and practice (2025 PCCS Books London); Re-imagining the space and context for a therapeutic curriculum—a sketch (with Robert Downes) in White Therapies + Black Identities (2021 PCCS Books); ‘Otherwise: Writing Unbearable Encounters Through the Register of Race’ (2021 LIRIC); Black Paranormal: A Playlist in What is Normal: Psychotherapists Explore the Question (2020 Karnac Books); How the Hiding Seek (2018, KDP).
UNRULY THERAPEUTIC; BLACK FEMINIST WRITINGS & PRACTICES IN LIVING ROOM‘ is now out (W.W. Norton (2023)). Her memoir/bio-mythography ‘HOW THE HIDING SEEK’ (2018) is also available to buy online.
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