Juwairiyyah was sick of trawling the internet to watch niche films alone. Perhaps Birmingham DVD library will change our neoliberal viewing culture.
Confronting the silence around Congo
Shirley Ahura navigates the centuries-old legacy of exploitation and bloodshed plaguing the Congo, asking: how can we end our complicity?
Review: Yaya Wang’s ‘into the next tide’
Gabrielle de la Puente immerses herself in a film about grief, community and transformation.
“إنه عنفٌ بلا دماء”: سياسة الجرافات
تُستخدم الجرافات من فلسطين إلى كشمير كأداة في مشاريع استعمارية عبر أنحاء العالم. تتحاور مجلة سكين ديب مع الفينامبولست حول معماريات الدمار والركام كشهادة حية، وكيف تدفعنا الجرافات إلى إعادة التفكير في ما يمكن اعتباره سلاحًا.
‘It’s violence without blood’: the politics of bulldozers
Skin Deep talks to The Funambulist magazine about how the piece of construction equipment is used as a weapon, from Gaza to Kashmir.
They dug up a forgotten Manchester club. In the ruins lay a story of resistance.
In the 80s, the Reno Club was a place of Black refuge and resistance in Manchester’s overpoliced Moss Side.
What we nourish underground
In this delicate conversation, community organisers Maymana Arefin and Evie Muir use ‘ecological time’ to reconfigure their relationship to activism.
Jeju 4.3
For decades, campaigners have fought for the world to know what happened on the Korean island of Jeju. Their efforts embody the radical meaning behind truth and reconciliation.
What if Black artists didn’t have to explain themselves?
Noah Davis’ expansive, dreamlike paintings resist demands for straightforward ‘representations’ of Blackness.
Foreword: The rhythm changes
Marking 10 years of work at the intersection of culture and racial justice, Skin Deep’s Anthology is a collection of archive pieces and new commissions that explore time, cycles, rhythm, pacing and change.