AI generators have been making headlines splitting hairs over whether software is more help than hindrance in creative fields.
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We Can Be Heroes
So few stories feature black and brown children. Why are their stories, experiences and realities not included in the curriculum?
Right Place, Right Time: Reading bell hooks
Caring for someone’s life work means more than sharing a bibliography.
a beech in Scotland does not sleep
I am trying my best to move or stay or survive and each rainy day feel the burning washed deeper, deeper, down me, till gone away for good.
On belonging, hidden gardens and the Patron Saint of airports
Absence has become my currency, and only celebrations of love or death can be a reason big enough to cross the ocean.
Finding Community and Empowerment Through the Readers of Colour Group
It is not a hyperbole to say that Readers of Colour has been life changing.
“Why Do You Fear My Way So Much?”: A moment of crisis in publishing
To publish poetry that speaks to and acknowledges the realities of those marginalized, violated and often demonized by the state is not easy.
Tropical Creatures
How do we keep traditions and languages from dying out when the very land they come from is in mortal danger?
A Space to Breathe: reflections on First Breath
Breathing is not just a process, but is an act of expression in the lives that we live individually as people, and collectively as a society.
A Change of Heart
My heart attack came out of the blue. Adjusting to having a stent put in my heart — a foreign piece of metal acting like a bridge keeping my blood vessel open — was difficult to accept for me and my body. All of a sudden, overnight I became a person with a disability but one that no one could see.
