Category: Activism

Comic book strip style slider image. On the left hand side of the image, a dark-skinned Black girl looks for a book on British history; she finds no information in the chapters on Empire and Decolonial movements. She has a lightbulb moment and searches online, where she finds resources from The Black Curriculum, Fill In The Blanks UK, and The Free Black University. She has stars in her eyes! On the right side of the image, the girl sits on the computer, and behind her there is a visualisation of all the things she is learning about, including a banner reading "Movement for Colonial Freedom', a Bristol bus in 1963 and a placard reading "Murder in Notting Hill"

Activism

The Black activist groups decolonising UK education

Aditya Iyer speaks with The Black Curriculum, Fill in The Blanks UK and The Free Black University, on the ongoing movement to decolonise UK education

Activism, Art, Skin Deep Meets

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

Activism, People

‘Embrace your vulnerability’ –– How Black disabled workers navigate money, productivity and care

An illustrated discussion of work and care between two Black, disabled, neurodivergent, and chronically ill workers in England's North East.

Collage including images of coal plant cooling towers and gas plants rising over streets of houses, and figures at a protest with a large flag reading "Black Lives Matter", all set against a colourful patterned background.

Activism

No police, no pollution: A vision for Black liberation in the UK

For BLMUK's Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert, abolition and climate justice are part of the same vision for Black liberation

Illustration showing hands pointing in an accusing way at the pregnant belly of a Black woman

Activism

Climate justice means reproductive rights for all

Almaz Ohene on the racist, paternalistic legacy of using contraception as a ‘solution’ to climate change

Activism, Magazine

Skin Deep meets Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors

In the context of renewed outcry against the continuing violence of the state against Black people, we turned back to Kareli Lizárraga’s interview with Patrisse Khan Cullors.

Activism

Introducing the Black Creatives Fund

Donate to support the work of Black writers, illustrators and other creatives who contribute to and collaborate with Skin Deep.

Activism

When a mundane life for Black people is no longer fantasy

Confronting the realisation that a mundane life is a privilege only available to those who are not under constant threat.

Activism, Policy

Resourcing Black Lives

You are not helpless in this moment. There is so much we can do to support black lives to flourish. We’ve compiled some resources and suggestions.

Activism

Skin Deep presents: Untold stories of environmental justice

We are making a collaborative documentary that celebrates the powerful environmental justice work done by people of colour in the UK.

Activism, Art, Policy

Otherstani: a world without borders, imaged from behind bars

Talha Ahsan wrote the poem during his time in prison where he spent 8 years in the UK and the United States without trial.

Activism, Art, People, Skin Deep Meets

Skin Deep meets performance artist, theatre maker, poet and writer Travis Alabanza

What I long for is a place where we can opt-in or opt-out, choose to be invisible if want to, choose to be visible if we want to.