Skip to content
Lucy Writers Platform

Lucy Writers Platform

  • Home
  • About us
    • About LWP
    • Editors
    • Writers
    • About Lucy Cavendish
    • Constitution
  • My Cambridge
    • Lucy Interviews
    • Lucy Features
    • Postgraduate Corner
      • My Research Articles
  • Write for us
    • Submissions and Contact
    • Special editions
    • Directory
  • Writing
    • Arts
      • Art and design
      • Books
      • Dance
      • Fashion
      • Film and Media
      • Music
      • Theatre
    • Creative Writing
      • Fiction
      • Flash Fiction
      • Poetry
      • Resources
    • Environment
    • General
    • Health and Wellbeing
      • Lucy Features
      • Short read
    • Interviews
    • Opinion
    • Politics
      • Features
      • My Feminisms
    • STEM

Tag: Black Lives Matter

Disagreements in lockdown by Shamini Sriskandarajah

29th March 202129th March 2021  Shamini Sriskandarajah

In this compelling personal essay, Shamini Sriskandarajah recounts a year of trying to connect with friends over text, email, phone and post; of having to explain racism to one white friend and denounce violent sexism to another.

Read More “Disagreements in lockdown by Shamini Sriskandarajah”
Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Asian women, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Corona Virus, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Lockdown, Lockdown Living, Pandemic

Cats Are Trash Human Beings: But Maybe Feminists Are Too

9th February 20219th February 2021  Majella Mark

For decades womxn have felt unrepresented by liberal feminism and its lack of intersectionality. In her new book, Cats Are Trash: But Maybe Feminists Are Too, Majella Mark seeks to entertain, encourage and educate readers on the history and potentiality of feminism.

Read More “Cats Are Trash Human Beings: But Maybe Feminists Are Too”
Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Alice Walker, Anita Hill, Black Lives Matter, BLM, book, Cats, Cats Are Trash Human Beings, Equity Feminism, Feminism, Gender equity, Intersectional Feminism, Kamala Harris, Majella Mark, Radical feminism, Shirley Chisolm, Trans Feminism, Trump, Womanism

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.

Read More “What my silence in the deaf community taught me about directness and honesty”
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.

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

Read More “Postcards in Isolation 28: Somaya Critchlow and Dorothea Tanning’s Interior with Sudden Joy, 1951”
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?

Read More “Postcards in Isolation 23: Majella Mark, The Return, 2020”
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.

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

Read More “Postcards in Isolation 16: Tyler Mitchell, Untitled – Two Girls Embrace, 2018”
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.

Read More “‘Labelled for Your Convenience’ by Marissa McCallam”
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.

Read More “In Conversation with award-winning playwright Apphia Campbell – ‘After Ferguson, I started thinking about how I could contribute to the political fight’”
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
  • Midwinter with Margaret Tait: Readings of Personae
    By Lucy Writers
  • Interview with Buki Papillon: ‘Know the rules, so that you can break them’
    By Emma Hanson
  • Poetics of Work by Noémi Lefebvre: an exciting, provocative piece of art
    By Elodie Rose Barnes
  • About us
  • Writers
  • About Lucy Cavendish
  • Write for us
  • Submissions and Contact
  • Special editions
This website uses cookies to help us understand how it is being used, allowing us discover how it might be improved.
Cookie SettingsAccept Cookies
Manage Cookies

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Analytics

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

SAVE & ACCEPT
Top