After two years, ‘seven methods of killing kylie jenner’ is back on stage. Naomi Obeng chats to director Milli Bhatia about the play’s exploration of friendship, the internet, and the lucrative appropriation of Blackness.
Welcome to our new home
Skin Deep’s online space has a whole new look – step in, take a look around and let us know what you think
Centering Black life in a time of Black social death – Skin Deep Meets Barry Jenkins
Director Barry Jenkins spoke to Skin Deep about The Underground Railroad, and how to tell a story that centres “not what was done to them, but what they did.”
Resources in the struggle for Palestinian liberation
Now is the time to vocalize our solidarity with Palestinians and mobilise around it. Here is a list of resources to help you get started.
Oscar Jerome and Brother Portrait: ‘Your Saint’ and the dehumanisation of migrants in Europe
To mark the live session release, Brother Portrait and Oscar Jerome chat about the themes behind their track ‘Your Saint’
The Black activist groups decolonising UK education
Aditya Iyer speaks with The Black Curriculum, Fill in The Blanks UK and The Free Black University about the ongoing movement to decolonise UK education
Nollywood and the rise of razz – Skin Deep Meets @nollybabes
Funmi Lijadu talks to @nolly.babes, the viral Instagram account celebrating the women of the golden age of Nollywood
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.
Skin Deep Meets: In My Blood It Runs
Juvenile justice, Black Lives Matter and First Nations education in Australia — we talk to the filmmakers behind feature doc In My Blood It Runs
Maya Campbell: Museums are colonial, carceral spaces. Masks do not belong there.
Artist Maya Campbell activates the spiritual life of masks in her work, liberating them from the colonial and carceral legacy of the museum