Welcome to What Are You Reading?? where every month we’ll dedicate three flash reviews from you to writers of colour and their work.
Skin Deep meets Sabrina Mahfouz
We chatted with one of our IRL idols about writing what it means to be a Muslim women in the world right now, epic garage tunes, and defying stereotypes.
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.
Our LGBTQ rights weren’t safe before, under the Conservative/DUP coalition they’re practically gone
May’s alliance with the right-wing DUP signals her readiness to barter away the rights of minorities. As LGBT+ we need to remind ourselves, to be complacent during these times is to take our rights for granted.
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…
Why Twitter is like sex with an ex
Twitter is like great sex with an ex, except she yells the N-Word just as she orgasms and ruins everything
Back To Basics: Latinx
Why Latinx is the gender inclusive term that we need…
Skin Deep meets The Feminist Press
Alyea Canada explains how a feminist press differs from a regular publishing house and what it means to be an independent outlet that is focused on centering the voices of women of colour while sustaining an expansive definition of womxnhood.
Making a scene: The spectacle in women-led protests
Women’s bodies are battlegrounds – but women also use their bodies to make battlegrounds of the streets, from the steps of Parliament a century ago to the gates of Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre in 2017.