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Resources in the struggle for Palestinian liberation

Now is the time to vocalize our solidarity with Palestinians and mobilise around it. Here is a list of resources to help you get started.

Published 14 May 2021
Categorised as Actions, Activism, Online Articles

Oscar Jerome and Brother Portrait: ‘Your Saint’ and the dehumanisation of migrants in Europe

Image of musician Oscar Jerome playing guitar and singing

To mark the live session release, Brother Portrait and Oscar Jerome chat about the themes behind their track ‘Your Saint’

Published 8 March 2021
Categorised as Art, Online Articles, Reflections, Videos

The Black activist groups decolonising UK education

Comic book strip style slider image. On the left hand side of the image, a dark-skinned Black girl looks for a book on British history; she finds no information in the chapters on Empire and Decolonial movements. She has a lightbulb moment and searches online, where she finds resources from The Black Curriculum, Fill In The Blanks UK, and The Free Black University. She has stars in her eyes! On the right side of the image, the girl sits on the computer, and behind her there is a visualisation of all the things she is learning about, including a banner reading "Movement for Colonial Freedom', a Bristol bus in 1963 and a placard reading "Murder in Notting Hill"

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

Published 15 February 2021
Categorised as Actions, Activism, Learnings, Online Articles

Nollywood and the rise of razz – Skin Deep Meets @nollybabes

A collage of images of women in Nollywood movies. Three text selections read: "desirability, sex & superstition in Nollywood", "The Nollywood Femme Fatale", and "disobedience, deceit and authority"

Funmi Lijadu talks to @nolly.babes, the viral Instagram account celebrating the women of the golden age of Nollywood

Published 18 January 2021
Categorised as Online Articles, Skin Deep Meets

Archiving the Women Who Made Me Possible (after Sitawa Namwalie and Aleya Kassam)

Purple-toned illustration of three women sitting. Girl in centre flanked by her two aunts. All three are goddesses of a supernatural realm

In an ode to womanhood, spanning different faiths and cultures, Amuna Wagner explores what she inherits from her Aunts and what she leaves behind.

Published 5 January 2021
Categorised as Online Articles, People, Reflections

Skin Deep Meets: In My Blood It Runs

Juvenile justice, Black Lives Matter and First Nations education in Australia — we talk to the filmmakers behind feature doc In My Blood It Runs

Published 18 December 2020
Categorised as Activism, Art, Online Articles, Skin Deep Meets, Videos

Maya Campbell: Museums are colonial, carceral spaces. Masks do not belong there.

Artist Maya Campbell activates the spiritual life of masks in her work, liberating them from the colonial and carceral legacy of the museum

Published 9 December 2020
Categorised as Art, Online Articles, Reflections

Black Pain As Entertainment

Image of a woman in the right hand foreground side-eyeing a sign outside a cinema that reads "Black Pain Now Showing All Year Long"

From Belgian colonisers to social media videos, Oluwatayo Adewole interrogates the history of Black suffering as a spectacle.

Published 27 November 2020
Categorised as Learnings, Online Articles, People

Ode to Bucket Baths

Collage image of a bucket of water suspended in the air, pouring down on a torso. A blue bucket and a green stool float in the background

Mugabi Byenkya meditates on the comfort of bucket baths, and how an accessible DIY bucket bath helped him regain control of his body.

Published 16 November 2020
Categorised as Online Articles, People, Reflections

Skin Deep Meets: Black Fly Zine

Collage image of four Black Fly Zine collective members, with a central image of black hands holding a black notebook with the words 'Black Fly' written on it

Black Fly Zine are opening up conversations on sexual health, shame and the reclaiming of sexual joy in Black and POC communities.

Published 4 November 2020
Categorised as Online Articles, Skin Deep Meets

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