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Tag: Black Lives Matter

What my silence in the deaf community taught me about directness and honesty

16th November 202016th November 2020  Majella Mark

When Majella Mark was left unable to speak because of health problems, she felt alone and excluded. But on discovering New York’s hearing impaired community, she made new friends and learned to communicate in a way she never had before.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: American Sign Language, ASL, Black Lives Matter, BLM, communication, Deaf Community, friendship, hearing impairment, Languages, Life in Languages, Majella Mark, Sign Language, speech

In conversation with award-winning author, Yvonne Battle-Felton: ‘Writing has made me a better, more empathetic person’

28th October 202020th December 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Award-winning author, Yvonne Battle-Felton, talks to Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou about her exceptional debut, Remembered, her journey into academia and writing, her courageous women characters, and the inspiring maternal figures in her life.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: american history, BHM 2020, Black History Month, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Dialogue Books, George Floyd, Motherhood, mothers, Remembered, slavery, Yvonne Battle-Felton

Postcards in Isolation 28: Somaya Critchlow and Dorothea Tanning’s Interior with Sudden Joy, 1951

15th October 202015th October 2020  Rochelle Roberts

In the final postcard of her series, Rochelle Roberts reflects on the last few months since the first lockdown, and finds comfort and hope in the artwork of Somaya Critchlow and Dorothea Tanning’s Interior with Sudden Joy, 1951.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: BHM, BHM 2020, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Dorothea Tanning, Lockdown Living, Love and Hip Hop, Maximillian William Gallery, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, Somaya Critchlow, Underneath a Bebop Moon

Postcards in Isolation 23: Majella Mark, The Return, 2020

27th August 20201st September 2020  Majella Mark

Majella Mark looks back to her own artwork, The Return, 2020, a celebration of African ancestry, and asks where can black men and women go to be safe in light of the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery?

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Africa, Ahmaud Avery, Banksy, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Breonna Taylor, Covid-19, Elijah Mcclain, George Floyd, Lockdown Living, Majella Mark, New York, Pandemic, Postcards from the Edge, Postcards in Isolation, Racism, Rochelle Roberts, The Return, Visual AIDS

Postcards in Isolation 18: Faith Ringgold, #19 US Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of Black Power, 1967

5th August 20205th August 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Faith Ringgold’s striking painting, #19 US Postage Stamp, 1967, captures the complexities of the Black Power movement in 60s America and the white supremacist structures African Americans were subject to. But it serves as a metaphor for our times too, writes Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Black Lives Matter, Black Power Movement, BLM, Faith Ringgold, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Hyde Park, Lockdown Living, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Monuments, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, sculpture, The Serpentine, US Postage Stamp

Postcards in Isolation 16: Tyler Mitchell, Untitled – Two Girls Embrace, 2018

23rd July 202023rd July 2020  Emma Hanson

Emma Hanson marks the sixteenth Postcard of the series with Tyler Mitchell’s Untitled – Two Girls Embrace, 2018, which she sees as a celebration of black womanhood, Black freedom and looks to the achievability of a Black utopia.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Black Lives Matter, Covid-19, Emma Hanson, Foam Gallery, Lockdown Living, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, Two Girls Embrace, Tyler Mitchell, Vogue

‘Labelled for Your Convenience’ by Marissa McCallam

19th June 20203rd August 2020  Marissa McCallam

In this witty and moving piece, Marissa McCallam reflects on navigating the world as a brown girl, encountering other people’s racist views and prejudices, connecting with her mixed heritage and embracing the freedom and power of ambiguity.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Black Lives Matter, Centre Myself, creative non-fiction, Creative Writing, Marissa McCallam, non-fiction, Race, Racial Identity

In Conversation with award-winning playwright Apphia Campbell – ‘After Ferguson, I started thinking about how I could contribute to the political fight’

14th October 201929th October 2019  Uma Nada-Rajah

The award-winning playwright, actress and singer, Apphia Campbell, sits down with Uma Nada-Rajah to discuss living in China, the Black Lives Matter movement and the stories behind her two acclaimed sell-out shows, Black is the Colour of My Voice and Woke.

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Posted in Arts, Interviews, TheatreTagged: Apphia Campbell, Assata Shakur, Black is the Colour of My Voice, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Edinburgh Fringe, Ferguson, Michael Brown, Nina Simone, Uma Nada-Rajah, Woke
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