Upcoming paid opportunities for writers of colour in Scotland to contribute to our blog!
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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.
Open Call for Blog Pitches! – for September-December 2022
Upcoming paid opportunities for writers of colour in Scotland to contribute to our blog!
Open Call for Blog Pitches! – for May-August 2022
Upcoming paid opportunities for writers of colour in Scotland to contribute to our blog!
On Afrofuturism, an estranged father, and our dystopian reality
Afrofuturism utilises technology to rewrite the racist tropes of mainstream white media – Africa is no longer primitive or in need of saving.
