In conversation with Sita Balani

By Dr Luke de Noronha

Luke de Noronha welcomes Sita Balani, Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London and the author, most recently, of Deadly and Slick: the Sexual Life of Race in Britain (Verso Press, 2023). They discuss Sita’s recent writings on culture wars, melodrama as a mode of political communication, and the difference between the ordinary and normal. 

This conversation was recorded in November 2025

Speakers: Luke de Noronha and Sita Balani