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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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Is This the End? A note from our editors

Right now, more than ever, we need things that can build and strengthen our collective capacities to create, imagine and produce.

Sonic Transmissions: House of Absolute

We go deep with House of Absolute, an all female powerhouse cultivating honest expression through dance and music.

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.

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Skin Deep meets South London playwright and performer DK Fashola

On resisting the boxes with new narratives and multidisciplinary flow.

14 quick questions with Bklava

We caught up with DJ, vocalist and producer Bklava (yes, she has named herself after everyone's favourite Lebanese dessert).

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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.

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.

Activism, Art, People

Sonic Transmissions: Cassie Kinoshi

Cassie shares her process, influences, politics and the narratives that she's are inspired to tell.

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Enjoying the sweet fruits of musical collaboration, Sierra Leone-style.

OSUSU, a 12 part album arranged to connect the stars of the local scene to a constellation of international musicians, producers, and technicians.

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Skin Deep meets Rebekah Murrell

Culture Editor Nkenna Akunna caught up with friend of the Skin Deep fam, Rebekah Murrell.

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Skin Deep meets Alfie Enoch

Towards the end of his run in Tree at the Young Vic, Skin Deep caught up with Alfie Enoch to talk about the importance of Black British storytelling.