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Tag: Emma Hanson

Lucy Writers Announces Our New Arts Council England Funded Project, What the Water Gave Us

24th February 202224th February 2022  Lucy Writers

Lucy Writers is proud to announce its new Arts Council England funded mentoring project, What the Water Gave Us, for emerging women writers.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Lucy Features, My Cambridge, Non-FictionTagged: Arts Council England, Arts Council England National Lottery Grant, Brexit Britain, Burley Fisher, Claire Hynes, Elodie Rose Barnes, Emma Claire Sweeney, Emma Hanson, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Immigration, Irenosen Okojie, Jenny Chamarette, Lucy Cavendish College, migrant writers, Migration, Pandemic, Rojbîn Arjen Yigit, Selin Genc, Shamini Sriskandarajah, Shirley Ahura, So Mayer, Susan Barker, Takeaway Press, The Ruppin Agency, water, What the Water Gave Us, Yen Ooi, Yvonne Battle-Felton

Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds by Jayna Brown

1st November 20211st November 2021  Emma Korantema Hanson

In Jayna Brown’s Black Utopias, Emma Hanson discovers that the speculative practices and philosophies of Black creatives destabilise current understandings of the ‘human’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘existence’, instead redefining them and envisaging futures past from the privileged position of the periphery.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: afrofuturism, Alice Coltrane, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Black Utopias, Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds, Duke University Press, Emma Hanson, Jayna Brown, Octavia Butler, Rebecca Cox Jackson, Samuel R. Delany, Sojourner Truth, Sun Ra

Julian Henriques’ Babymother: A Black feminist triumph of a film

15th September 202115th September 2021  Emma Korantema Hanson

Emma Hanson reviews Julian Henriques’ 1998 musical film, Babymother, and considers the reality of single Black motherhood against its often prejudiced on- and off-screen representation.

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Posted in Arts, Film and Media, MusicTagged: Anjela Lauren Smith, Babymother, bashment, BFI, Black Motherhood, black women, Caroline Chikezie, dancehall, Don Warrington, drum n' bass, Emma Hanson, Film, Julian Henriques, Motherhood, musical, Parminder Vir, ragga, reggae, Superflex, Tameka Empson, Wil Johnson

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

23rd July 202023rd July 2020  Emma Korantema 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
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