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

Art
In conversation: Oscar Jerome and Brother Portrait on ‘Your Saint’ and the dehumanisation of migrants in Europe
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’

Activism
The Black activist groups decolonising UK education
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

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Nollywood and the rise of razz
Nollywood and the rise of razz
Funmi Lijadu talks to @nolly.babes, the viral Instagram account celebrating the women of Old Nollywood

People
Archiving the Women Who Made Me Possible (after Sitawa Namwalie and Aleya Kassam)
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
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.
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

People
Black Pain As Entertainment
Black Pain As Entertainment
Oluwatayo Adewole interrogates the centuries long history of Black suffering as a spectacle.

People
Ode to Bucket Baths
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
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.

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

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

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