Working with displaced families seeking sanctuary has forced Marwa Belghazi to stay still and to be grounded, so she can extend that feeling to others who have just arrived.
Category: Reflections
The Object of My Gaze
Marcia Michael’s recent project ‘I Am Now You – Mother’ visualises matrilineage through the body of her mother as a way of telling our own stories.
The Moon Is A Meme
Part of Freeword’s THIS IS PRIVATE series, ‘The Moon Is A Meme’ explores the notion of privacy in an era of surveillance from the perspective of a young British-Asian Muslim man.
“What they know about a black woman soul?” Reflections on Winsome Pinnock’s ‘Leave Taking’
Nkenna Akunna on finding herself in Pinnock’s play Leave Taking, and what it means to be seen in a world built to erase you.
Loss, laughter and resisting the black universal: Nine Night at the National Theatre
Skin Deep’s Nkenna Akunna meets Roy Alexander Weise to talk about his play Nine Night, currently on at the National Theatre, London.
Jollof Rice in an Underground Bunker
Because WWIII is inevitable, and in order to be prepared, we must learn the essentials: how to make jollof rice in dark and dire times.
Bontoc Eulogy: Encountering the Philippines at the St Louis World’s Fair
An Interview with filmmaker Marlon Fuentes, on how he has used film made to serve American imperialists to tell the story of those they colonised.
4 women, 8 names
Would an immigrant by any other name make it as far in Trump’s America? Four women of colour explore the politics of their names.
On Being an Ammartian: Nation Building on Youtube
As a diasporic Zimbabwean, sharing videos on Facebook and subscribing to Ammara’s YouTube channel is the only form of nation-building I might ever know…
Where are you really from?: The hidden lives of PoC in rural Britain
On the right to the countryside and how the focus on people of colour living in cities often means that those living in rural areas don’t get the support that they need and have their experiences overlooked…