'If I Must Die' by Refaat Alareer 🪁
Read by the incredible Eric Cantona

Refaat was killed in a targeted attack last year, fitting a wider pattern of the silencing Palestinian writers, poets and journalists; of robbing Palestinians of their voice.

Voices of Resilience is…

The Arts Column in today's Times.

📢Attention all aspiring and early-career publishers📢 Tickets are now on sale for our Publishing Insights Day, a full day of talks, presentations and Q+As about publishing from experts across the industry.

We did it!🎉

Thanks to everyone who made Voices of Resilience such a special evening ❤️

We’re totalling everything up but it looks like over £3000 from tickets and book sales raised for 🇵🇸 aid charities in just one evening!

Amazing work everybody 👏

Happy St. George’s Day to all those who observe. A solider who protested against the torture of Christians. Born in Cappadocia (modern day Turkey), who died in Palestine, who never once stepped foot in England. On a day Sunak passes his disgusting Rwanda bill.

Oh the irony.

Happy #EarthDay2024 from Commonword 🌎

To mark and celebrate this day we are sharing quotes from our recently published Dreaming in Green anthology: issuu.com/cultureword/do…

First an extract from 'Breathe, Keep Breathing' by Anita Sethi 🍃

#EarthDay2024 quote from John Siddique's essay 'The Radical Step- Self, Nature and Decolonisation'

#EarthDay2024 quote from Selina Nwulu's creative essay 'The Weight of Water'

Oldham Open Mic is tonight at Soul Café🤩
Doors open at 6.20pm
Nearest tram stop is Oldham Mumps 🚊

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Black and Asian women writers are invited to polish up their complete manuscripts and send them in to @sileedslitprize for a chance to win £4000!

Commonword writer Clare R was longlisted for her novel Kala Polari in 2022 - this year it could be you!

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Anyone interested in #poetry and changing society can be part of an interactive session and inform new work. B!TEZ🫀's drop-in, 'Algorithms of Meaning', focuses on meaning making in the age of #AI and asks, who is the future for?' bit.ly/PoCIDropin

Save the MA in black british literature at goldsmiths college - please sign the petition
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The Courage to Say ‘Yes’ 🎙️🤩

Don't miss #BWAH Episode 2: A spirited discussion with SuAndi SuAndi - trailblazer for black artists and stellar writer

Plus bonus writing prompt to inspire and motivate this Friday afternoon!

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#amwriting

I wrote a short essay for the Feminist Review Feminist Futures II special issue, and it's open access!

'Black feminist thought is a glitch in the university matrix'

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Watch the climactic final episode of #Defiance tonight, 10pm on Channel 4

In episode 3: a family is killed in Walthamstow, young British Asians fight back in #Southall and #Bradford , leading to the trial of the #Bradford 12 with the slogan: Self Defence is No Offence

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It was my late father Gurbachan Singh Thind (1938-2019), who showed me the importance of #Defiance . He taught me that it’s necessary at times to fight for your rights, to make your voice heard, & to stand your ground. “Life is a battle, & you have to fight,” he taught me. ✊🏾🔥

Pritpal asad rehman Mukhtar Dar DrRajYouthWorker Taj Ali fahim qureshi NPMP Tariq Ali SouthAsia Solidarity peter kalu writer Tariq Mehmood Ken Fero For the authentic story follow @tariqmehmood000 + Ken Fero for forthcoming feature doc on #Bradford12 , in the autumn. This will be a film about the era, told by leading defendants & campaigners, including a no of Bradford 12 defendants. A film by the people, for the people 20/20

Channel 4’s #Defiance is a problematic & superficial narrative of the resistance to racism fought by South Asian youth fought in the 1970s and 1980s. For more on this history see my bk Black Star: Britain’s Asian Youth Movements plutobooks.com/9781849649469/…
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Pritpal asad rehman Mukhtar Dar DrRajYouthWorker Taj Ali fahim qureshi NPMP Tariq Ali SouthAsia Solidarity peter kalu writer Tariq Mehmood Ken Fero This international solidarity was why they called themselves Black shouting the slogan ‘Black people must unite here to stay here to fight’. This international solidarity is so relevant and important to speak about in the context of the current #Gaza_Genocide 12/20

In February, UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #CitiesofLiterature came together in solidarity for a very special event, #ReadingForOdesa .

The film below was created on the day, woven together with film and imagery from Odesa #CityofLit by Alonya Kaporina.

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