Look, Don't Touch: Reflections on the Freedom to Feel (Inklings, 26) - Softcover

Layla-roxanne Hill; Francesca Sobande

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191663706X ISBN 13: 9781916637061

Publisher: 404 Ink, 2025

Synopsis

What does the command “look, don’t touch” suggest about the (lack of) freedom to feel in society? hill and Sobande reflect on society’s nurturing and obstructing of emotional expression, physical touch, and connectedness between different species and spaces as Look, Don’t Touch journeys through the music of feeling, “self-help” social media, the power of public signage, and more to call for a move away from the language of “okayness”, and a move towards collectively uplifting forms of anger, agitation, love, solidarity, release, and ultimately, feeling.

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About the Author

layla-roxanne hill is an independent writer, researcher + organiser, living + healing in scotland. she thinks + feels about many things, including anti-colonial struggle, care + belonging + the way our conditions move us to act. layla-roxanne is co-author/dreamer with francesca sobande of Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland (Bloomsbury, 2022) + the freely available graphic novel + animation, Black Oot Here: Dreams O Us (2023). she is active in the trade union movement, holding elected positions within the bureaucratic machinery. layla-roxanne likes rabbit holes, finding peace + connection + to lift heavy.

Francesca Sobande is a writer and researcher, who lives in Cymru (Wales). Her books include Big Brands Are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture (University of California Press, 2024), Consuming Crisis: Commodifying Care and COVID-19 (SAGE, 2022), and The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Francesca is co-author/co-dreamer with layla-roxanne hill of Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland (Bloomsbury, 2022) and the free graphic novel and animation Black Oot Here: Dreams O Us (2023). Her bylines include Disegno, Paste Magazine, and The Vinyl Factory. Francesca enjoys midnight skies and all things emo <3

Edition details

• Publisher: 404 Ink
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191663706X
• ISBN 13: 9781916637061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128