Clio Koopman

Fellow: New Archival Visions Fellow, MA.

Clio Koopman is a Master’s student in Historical Studies at the University of the Western Cape, she has a keen interest in jazz and its political implications, as well as how jazz intersects with education, through their shared subversiveness. She is enthusiastic about popular education and developing spaces for pedagogy, imagination and resistance to intersect. She developed a workshop outline for people to commune, and strategise on imagining different, postcolonial realities, influenced by feminist and queer ideas of liberation, which she received funding for. She is interested in representing pedagogy and resistance through zine making and curriculum, and creates digital illustrations geared towards resistance. Through this she finds her meaning of praxis through creativity. She also finds these ideas and connections in her passion for jazz. She has worked as a citizen journalist and campaigner, with a focus on mental health, queer experiences as well as domestic worker’s rights.

She has facilitated classes on contextualising Cape Town through understanding Domestic Work. She writes creatively and has been published in an anthology relating to queer experiences, They Called Me Queer  and a magazine on Pan-Africanism, Waithood Magazine. In her spare time she creates cryptic crosswords, which she shares online.