“I couldn’t help but wonder if these people had spent their whole lives in a first-world, peacetime society, and if so, could they ever in their wildest, dreams imagine what a wartime lockdown is really like? Living through a wartime conflict is something that I have actually experienced, so let me tell you what it’s like.”
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Support Black-owned Organisations
4+ A spotlight on businesses and organisations founded by Black creatives Thank you to Black artists sharing on Twitter, Project […]
Names Like Mine: Weirdness, Whiteness, and Playing Pretend
“For those of us born of immigrants, born of brown faces, our ‘world’ is not the default world of whiteness. Our worlds require constant creation even in the realm of the imaginary.”
Black Lives Matter, a Protest Speech
“I speak to you today from a place of deep grief. I speak from a place of anger and of tiredness. We have said: Racism is here, Racism kills. Patriarchal violence, and class violence, kill. We see it with our own eyes; the systems that killed George Floyd are being used all over the world.”
The Pain of the Others
20+ The Pain of the Others, photo credit: Jinling Wu I moved into a ground floor flat early last year. […]
Re-reading ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ during a pandemic
4+ Re-reading My Year of Rest and Relaxation during a pandemic by Katie Goh When Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation was […]
What inclusive programming can look like in the digital age
1+ A photo of Edinburgh, taken on a lockdown run on a day full of harr We are entering what […]
