People – Skin Deep

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

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

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

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

Exploring the connotations of clothing, Matthew Gomes wrestles with the second self that wears his crisp, white shirt.

An illustrated discussion of work and care between two Black, disabled, neurodivergent, and chronically ill workers in England’s North East.

Illustration: Jess Nash

One morning in March 2020, the doors to Michael J Moore’s cell did not open as usual. A guard had tested positive for Covid-19.

Alyssa Jaffer chats with artist Merissa Hylton about lineage, lockdown, and how Hylton’s work explores her identities as a Black disabled woman.

Melissa Chemam speaks to artist Hassan Hajjaj about his exhibition ‘The Path’ at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol.

DK Fashola talks to Courtney Yusuf about resisting the boxes with new narratives and multidisciplinary flow.

“What I long for is a place where we can opt in or opt out, choose to be invisible if want to, choose to be visible if we want to.”