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Diasporic Growing Pains & the Sudan Revolution

Amuna Wagner reflects on her evolving relationship with diaspora, transnational solidarity, and revolutionary upheaval.

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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.

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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

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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

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Black Pain As Entertainment

Oluwatayo Adewole interrogates the centuries long history of Black suffering as a spectacle.

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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.

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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.

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Black Skin, White Shirts

Matthew Gomes explores the connotations of clothing and wrestles with the second self that wears his crisp, white shirt.

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‘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.

Illustration of a man with PPE mask being dragged through prison by two uniformed prison guards

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‘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.

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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.

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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

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Skin Deep Meets Hassan Hajjaj

Melissa Chemam speaks to artist Hassan Hajjaj about his exhibition 'The Path' at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol.