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Look, Don’t Touch : Reflections on the Freedom to Feel

layla-roxanne hill, Francesca Sobande
Format: Paperback
Publisher: 404 Ink
Published: February 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781916637061
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£7.50

What does the command “look, don’t touch” suggest about the (lack of) freedom to feel in society?

layla-roxanne hill and Francesca Sobande reflect on society’s nurturing and obstructing of emotional expression, physical touch, and connectedness between different species and spaces.

Through the music of feeling across genres from nu-metal to hip-hop, the spectacle of “self-help” social media content, and powerful pop culture portrayals of (im)mortality and “monsters”, Look, Don’t Touch moves beyond the language of “being okay”. It embraces tenderness, dreaming, love, solidarity, messiness, release, and ultimately, feeling.

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