Category: People

Image of a woman in the right hand foreground side-eyeing a sign outside a cinema that reads "Black Pain Now Showing All Year Long"
People

Black Pain As Entertainment

Oluwatayo Adewole interrogates the centuries long history of Black suffering as a spectacle.
Black Pain As Entertainment
Collage image of a bucket of water suspended in the air, pouring down on a torso. A blue bucket and a green stool float in the background
People

Ode to Bucket Baths

Mugabi Byenkya meditates on the comfort of bucket baths, and how an accessible DIY bucket bath helped him regain control of his body.
Ode to Bucket Baths
Image of five black men in a line, all wearing white shirts, black ties and blue suit jackets.
People

Black Skin, White Shirts

Matthew Gomes explores the connotations of clothing and wrestles with the second self that wears his crisp, white shirt.
Black Skin, White Shirts
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.
‘Embrace your vulnerability’ –– How Black disabled workers navigate money, productivity and care
Illustration of a man with PPE mask being dragged through prison by two uniformed prison guards
People

‘We hid our symptoms’ –– Surviving a pandemic in prison

One morning in March 2020, the doors to Michael J Moore’s cell did not open as usual. A guard had tested positive for Covid-19.
‘We hid our symptoms’ –– Surviving a pandemic in prison
Art, People, Skin Deep Meets

Skin Deep Meets Merissa Hylton

Alyssa Jaffer chats with artist Merissa Hylton about lineage, lockdown, affirmation, and how Hylton's work explores her identities as a Black disabled woman.
Skin Deep Meets Merissa Hylton
Art, People, Skin Deep Meets

Skin Deep Meets Hassan Hajjaj

Melissa Chemam speaks to artist Hassan Hajjaj about his exhibition 'The Path' at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol.
Skin Deep Meets Hassan Hajjaj
Art, People, Skin Deep Meets

Skin Deep meets South London playwright and performer DK Fashola

On resisting the boxes with new narratives and multidisciplinary flow.
Skin Deep meets South London playwright and performer DK Fashola
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.
Skin Deep meets performance artist, theatre maker, poet and writer Travis Alabanza
Art, People

Shingai releases

Shingai, the legendary front woman and bassist from Noisettes introduces the 'Ancient Futures' short film co-written and produced by Kakembo and Shingai to complement the EP.
Shingai releases
Activism, Art, People, Sonic Transmissions

Sonic Transmissions: Cassie Kinoshi

Cassie shares her process, influences, politics and the narratives that she's are inspired to tell.
Sonic Transmissions: Cassie Kinoshi
Activism, Art, People

Diasporic Growing Pains & the Sudan Revolution

Amuna Wagner reflects on her evolving relationship with diaspora, transnational solidarity, and revolutionary upheaval.
Diasporic Growing Pains & the Sudan Revolution