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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
Skin Deep Meets

Centering Black life in a time of Black social death – Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad

Director Barry Jenkins tells Skin Deep he wanted to show "not what was done to them, but what they did."
Centering Black life in a time of Black social death – Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad
Activism

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.
Resources in the struggle for Palestinian liberation
Image of musician Oscar Jerome playing guitar and singing
Art

In conversation: Oscar Jerome and Brother Portrait on ‘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’
In conversation: Oscar Jerome and Brother Portrait on ‘Your Saint’ and the dehumanisation of migrants in Europe
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
The Black activist groups decolonising UK education
A collage of images of women in Nollywood movies. Three text selections read: "desirability, sex & superstition in Nollywood", "The Nollywood Femme Fatale", and "disobedience, deceit and authority"
Skin Deep Meets

Nollywood and the rise of razz – Skin Deep Meets @nollybabes

Funmi Lijadu talks to @nolly.babes, the viral Instagram account celebrating the women of Old Nollywood
Nollywood and the rise of razz – Skin Deep Meets @nollybabes
Purple-toned illustration of three women sitting. Girl in centre flanked by her two aunts. All three are goddesses of a supernatural realm
People

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.
Archiving the Women Who Made Me Possible (after Sitawa Namwalie and Aleya Kassam)
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
Skin Deep Meets: In My Blood It Runs
Art

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
Maya Campbell: Museums are colonial, carceral spaces. Masks do not belong there.
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
Collage image of four Black Fly Zine collective members, with a central image of black hands holding a black notebook with the words 'Black Fly' written on it
Skin Deep Meets

Skin Deep Meets: Black Fly Zine

Oliver Taylor talks to Black Fly Zine about opening up conversations on sexual health, shame and the reclaiming of sexual joy in Black and POC communities.
Skin Deep Meets: Black Fly Zine
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