by Desree | Oct 26, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Winter Blossom Does your laughter feel like winter blossom? A fog of petals in your lungs, forcing joy a season too soon. I don’t know the taste of your grief. Maybe it is a damaged earth, the world offbeat and threatening. But in this...
by Desree | Oct 25, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
and we sing ‘this place ain’t for you anymore, anymore even air moves different from before, from before’ *humming* my work aunt once told me about this crowd that arrived. took homes and changed streets left people;...
by Desree | Oct 24, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Apex Black woman, apex Thighs and mind of thunder Grounded, solid Catches me in her stratospheric eyeline in the future sight of higher love. The mountainous everything of her So bright I can barely behold. I hide in the shade of her lashes...
by Desree | Oct 23, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Martin Luther King Jr’s on tour in the UK to repeat the same speech, you’ve heard but never remembered word for word. And why should you? I have a dream is painted onto enough t-shirts and baseball caps for you to get the gist. School...
by Kate Birch | Oct 22, 2021 | Video
History, storytelling and escape from slavery in 17th and 18th Century London Between the 1650s and 1780s many hundreds of enslaved people were brought to London. Most were African although a significant minority were South Asian and a smaller number...
