Public Speaking

Chardine Taylor-Stone is a forthright, incisive and engaging speaker whose work explores Black feminism, queer politics, institutional power, subculture and radical cultural production.

She has delivered keynote talks, lectures and panel discussions across the UK, Europe and the United States at major arts institutions, festivals, universities and grassroots spaces. Her speaking combines political clarity with lived experience, drawing connections between race, cultural production, nightlife, punk, Afrofuturism and the limits of institutional diversity frameworks.

Chardine is known for being direct yet accessible — equally comfortable speaking to academic audiences, cultural practitioners, community organisers and general public audiences. She brings intellectual rigour without jargon, humour without dilution, and a structural understanding of power grounded in real-world organising.

Core themes include:

• Black feminism and alternative culture
• Punk, DIY politics and working-class radicalism
• Afrofuturism and speculative thought
• Race and institutional power
• The politics of diversity and the limits of EDI frameworks
• Queer nightlife, racism and community accountability
• Hip-hop, subculture and Black cultural production
• Cinema and cultural space as gendered environments

Selected Institutions & Festivals

Chardine has spoken at:

• Southbank Centre (Women of the World Festival)
• British Library
• Tate Modern
• BFI and ICA
• Victoria & Albert Museum
• Royal Festival Hall
• Chelsea College of Arts
• SOAS University of London
• National Education Union Annual Conference
• London Short Film Festival
• FutureEverything (Manchester Town Hall)
• Black Cultural Archives
• Nova Festival (Brussels)
• Open School East
• Proud Archives
• Watershed Bristol
• London Feminist Film Festival

She has appeared at events across Europe and the United States, contributing to international conversations on race, feminism, subculture and cultural resistance.

Signature Talks

How Punk Music Turned Me into a Black Feminist
A widely shared talk exploring how DIY punk culture shaped her political consciousness as a working-class Black woman, and how alternative subcultures can inform contemporary Black feminist identity. Delivered at TEDxTottenham and other international venues.

Afrofuturism: Liberation, Technology and Myth
On speculative culture as political practice and Black futurity as resistance.

Black Rock: From Bad Brains to Big Joanie
Exploring Black identity politics in alternative music scenes.

Redefining the Strong Black Woman
On rejecting stereotype and reclaiming radical cultural lineage.