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Tag: BLM

They Come to You, Embodying Anew at the Maximillian William, London

30th June 20212nd July 2021  Shameekia Shantel Johnson

In Maximillian William’s recent exhibition, Embodying Anew, work by Thaddeus Moseley, Magdalene Odundo and Simone Leigh challenges Western appropriation of African aesthetics and celebrates the cultural practices of indigenous Africa.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: African aesthetics, Bird in Space, Black Artists, BLM, BLM 2020, Brancusi, Kara Walker, Magdalene Odundo, Maximillian William Gallery, Repetitive Reference, sculpture, Simone Leigh, Thaddeus Mosley

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.

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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.

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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

Interview with Shaynae Walcott of Sugared & Sprayed: ‘I am a proud black woman’

3rd December 20204th December 2020  Aysha Abdulrazak

Aysha Abdulrazak meets with entrepreneur and founder of Sugared & Sprayed, Shay Walcott, to discuss the ancient art of sugaring, speaking your hopes into existence, the beauty of black women and building an organisation that supports women of colour from the get-go.

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Posted in Health and Wellbeing, InterviewsTagged: beauty, beauty industry, black women, BLM, BLM 2020, Covid-19, hair, hair removal, London Sugaring Company, Ropo Demure, Shay Walcott, Shaynae Walcott, Spray-tanning, Stephanie King, Sugared & Sprayed, Sugaring

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

‘My friend, there are no friends’: on mourning, abandonment and reckonings

12th November 20207th January 2021  Sumaya Kassim

In the first essay of her co-edited and co-conceived series, Disembodied Voices: Friendship during COVID-19, Sumaya Kassim reflects on the breakdown of a friendship, exploring feelings of abandonment, rejection and grief that led her to self-evaluate and cultivate new intimacy and care.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: abandonment, Aristotle, Aysha Abdulrazak, BLM, BLM 2020, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Covid-19, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, I May Destroy You, Jacques Derrida, Lockdown, Lockdown Living, Pandemic, Sumaya Kassim

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.

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

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
  • Magic by Moonlight: Kirsten Glass’ Night-Scented Stock at Karsten Schubert, London
    By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
  • Picturing Loss: On Francesca Woodman by Lisa Goodrum
    By Lisa Goodrum
  • Beyond the Confines of Nell Brookfield’s Canvas
    By Rachel Ashenden
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