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في قلب البلدة القديمة، تثبت أجيالٌ من الفلسطينيين الأفارقة في وجه الاحتلال

يروي الكاتب موسى قوس قصصًا عن الأَسر والتراث والمجتمع الفلسطيني الإفريقي في القدس

Published 8 August 2022
Categorised as Uncategorised Tagged season-arabic-palestine-ways-of-being

خواطر مقتبسة من التاريخ الشفوي الفلسطيني في الشتات

من خلال نبذات من القصص العائلية تروي الكاتبة سماح فاضل عن معنى أن تكون فلسطينيًا افريقيًا في الشتات

Published 8 August 2022
Categorised as Uncategorised Tagged season-arabic-palestine-ways-of-being

Curator’s note: Who is left out when we narrate the story of Palestine?

The pieces in this season are a foray into a myriad of under-explored stories of Palestinian life now, asking us to imagine Palestine differently in the future.

Published 8 August 2022
Categorised as Uncategorised Tagged season-palestine-ways-of-being

Living in a time not mine: An anonymous letter from inside an Israeli prison

“​​Captivity has taught me to give myself to my people without limits. Their aspirations for freedom and justice are my own and so my dreams are the dreams of the many.”

Published 8 August 2022
Categorised as Uncategorised Tagged season-palestine-ways-of-being

Dreams of a Palestine where I can hold myself whole

My destination is not a reconciled past, but an imagined future, where none of us must absent a part of ourselves to live.

Published 8 August 2022
Categorised as Uncategorised Tagged season-palestine-ways-of-being

In the heart of the Old City, generations of Afro-Palestinians persevere in the face of occupation

Writer Mousa Qous gathers stories of incarceration, folklore and community from Afro-Palestinians in Jerusalem

Published 8 August 2022
Categorised as Uncategorised Tagged season-palestine-ways-of-being

Putting the pieces together: Fragments of oral history in exile

Through a kaleidoscope of family stories, writer Samah Fadil holds on to what it means to be Afro-Palestinian in diaspora

Published 8 August 2022
Categorised as Uncategorised Tagged season-palestine-ways-of-being

Curators’ note: “This one’s for the balustrades, the locals that are part of the architecture”

Posed headshot portrait of two men sat down in an art studio, looking straight at the camera with slight smiles
Photo credit: Sophia Spring

As the inaugural guest curators of Skin Deep’s first editorial season, RESOLVE Collective wanted to use this space to big up the extraordinary work of local community support structures by making visible, audible, and tangible the ordinary moments that underpin them.

Published 14 December 2021
Categorised as Reflections Tagged season-local

Three Sheffield artists visualise a living oral archive gathered by community centre SADACCA

Illustration: 'Cora' by Tomekah George

A Sheffield African Caribbean association is recording stories from the community it has served since the 1950s. We asked three Sheffield-based artists to create original artworks responding to this oral archive. Art by Grace Lee, Ashley Holmes and Tomekah George.

Published 14 December 2021
Categorised as Uncategorised Tagged season-local

A love letter to an iconic Camden youth centre, and the caregivers who have held the space over generations

An illustrated image of four young children sitting on a park bench, with flowers that have been illustrated around their heads
Illustration by Tamara-Jade Kaz

While hundreds of youth centres in the UK have been shuttered in the last decade, the doors to Coram’s Fields remain open. This is an ode to the centre and its staff, written by people who are grateful to have passed through. Illustrations by Tamara-Jade Kaz.

Published 14 December 2021
Categorised as Uncategorised Tagged season-local

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