When NorFAMtoN CEO Shereen Ingram asked me to join her project to help members of Northampton’s Windrush Generation, I jumped at the opportunity without a second thought, to give back to the people that raised me. I am still firmly of the belief that the village raises the child and…
“[White people] have a deep emotional investment in the myth of “sameness,” even as their actions reflect the primacy of whiteness as a sign informing who they are and how they think. …
Following the Murder of George Floyd, I, as part of of fifty Black and Mixed-Race Britons were interviewed as part of The UK Guardian’s early responses to the Black Lives Matter protests happening across the world, including Britain and of course the United States. …
In order to have Blackness or Brownness, we must have Whiteness
talking about racism puts the onus on the victim
without any inclination to discuss the system
it’s easy to talk in the language of DiAngelo or McIntosh
that keeps it between individuals, not how White power has quashed
A few months ago
there were leaflets going round Bristol
saying “it’s okay to white”
but that is not the same as being English
race and culture split like Brexit
I have been told I am English
but what is English culture
cus the Scots, the Irish and the…
I have burned untold days
on Leaf Green, Emerald and Heart Gold
throwing balls at battle beasts for lols
just to give myself a shock to the system
that there’s more to life than 9 to 5
kids in 2016 spoke to me about Pokémon
like they discovered it…
My degree was a gentleman’s club
of dead poets. Tattooed trees planted by
corpsed hands from the Firm of
of Pitt & Pitt, an England gassed
by the Etonian variant. I wanted to pen
incantations on #MeToo and BLM
but we were forced to write about stems
and rosebuds. So…
Having grown up in close proximity to the Windrush Generation as a grandchild and great-grandchild of Jamaican and Grenadian migrants, watching the crisis unravel since 2018 struck a nerve. Before my paternal Jamaican grandparents moved from Staffs to Spain, I once upon a time would have been roaming around their…
Whilst watching the first episode featuring Aballava, we must acknowledge that Olusoga and Benjamin were also not the first Black and Brown scholars to discuss Black history — from J. A Rogers and his work that combatted racist views of history, to Trinidadian Ron Ramdin on the working class…
mugging the Queen’s English
growing up I recall
my grandmother and her friends
proclaiming Will Shakespeare “a jobsworth”
you know them ladies
with their diddly hands
like a cantankerous rex in the front room
instead of calling us kids rude
they would call us “boisterous youths”
…
