If we want to inject politics into the arts, first, we need to follow the money.
Category: Learnings
Can a card game help to imagine a decolonised Palestine?
Zena Agha sits down with the creators of card game ‘Countless Palestinian Futures’
The Black activist groups decolonising UK education
Aditya Iyer speaks with The Black Curriculum, Fill in The Blanks UK and The Free Black University about the ongoing movement to decolonise UK education
Black Pain As Entertainment
From Belgian colonisers to social media videos, Oluwatayo Adewole interrogates the history of Black suffering as a spectacle.
‘Embrace your vulnerability’ – How Black disabled workers navigate money, productivity and care
An illustrated discussion of work and care between two Black, disabled, neurodivergent, and chronically ill workers in England’s North East.
No police, no pollution: A vision for Black liberation in the UK
For Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert of BLMUK, abolition and climate justice are part of the same vision for Black liberation
Climate justice means reproductive rights for all
Almaz Ohene on the racist, paternalistic legacy of using contraception as a ‘solution’ to climate change
blank verse in freedom’s thinking
Print culture always responds to politics, especially amongst the large diaspora that had grown as a result of the mass migration out of Zimbabwe
BBZ BLK BK: Alternative Graduate Show 2019
BBZ’s Alternative Graduate show opened at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham last Wednesday, featuring ten early career artists practising in a range of mediums.
Jay Bernard’s Surge, the process of documenting overlooked Black British history, and the struggles we are yet to overcome
Paying homage to the victims of the New Cross fire in 1981.