“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.”
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.
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
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
Curators’ note: “This one’s for the balustrades, the locals that are part of the architecture”
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.
Three Sheffield artists visualise a living oral archive gathered by community centre SADACCA
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.
A love letter to an iconic Camden youth centre, and the caregivers who have held the space over generations
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.
The YARD that MAIA built: Growing an ecosystem of support for artists in Birmingham
At YARD, a prototype artist-led hotel, MAIA is using food, family and physical space to meet the practical and economic needs of artists in the city.
Skin Deep meets playwright Aleshea Harris to talk ‘Is God Is’ and limitlessness
Aleshea Harris’ award-winning play ‘Is God Is’ explores structures of neglect, inheritance, and two women’s capacity for revenge.
The Return of Babymother: A Celebration of Harlesden’s Reggae Roots
Widely considered to be the first Black British musical, Babymother follows Anita (Anjela Lauren Smith), who has an ambition to become a local Dancehall star. Courtney Yusuf meets Julian Henriques and Parminder Vir, director and producer, to retrace the film’s steps, over 20 years after its release.