My soul is from the sea
By Gurpreet Kaur My soul is from the sea, my body from my mother, and her body from my grandmother, carrying us back to our ancestral shores in northern [...]
Stories: A poem by Saili Katebe
We build galleries down the local, fill them with punters and pictures, hoping to watch our neighbourhoods grow culture. At home, we sit together, weaving something to last [...]
Finding Eden: A poem by Saili Katebe
I never grew up with rainbows, and could never count in colour. I couldn't read light, the city blurred the borders between hills. Hidden flocks, painting brushstrokes into trees, [...]
Meet Daniel, from London, Boston and Rowhedege
The recent focus on the Black Lives Matter movement and the terrible murder of George Floyd in the USA has brought back memories of racial abuse, injustice and inequality. [...]
This is Not a Movie
Here I am in my sixth decade on earth feeling new-born and kickin' as I hit the high street - Fore Street, rather - of my new village, my [...]
Marisse’s story: Growing up in Devon as a biracial British Filipina
Beautiful North Devon is where I was born and where I have spent most of my life. I am proud to call this place home now, but that wasn’t [...]
Meet Nina, from Torbay
I’m Nina and I’m mixed race. I was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria to a white Jewish teenage mother and (absent) Jamaican father, and went on to have a somewhat [...]
Meet Ramela, an Armenian from many places
When my patients ask me where I am from, I usually reply, “Wyke Regis in Weymouth.” They shake their heads and ask, “No, nurse, where are you really from?” [...]
Meet Fin, from Cornwall
(Fin’s story as told by himself and his mum, Colleen to Louisa Adjoa Parker) Fin is 8 years old and lives near St Austell, Cornwall. He defines himself as [...]
Meet Rachel Edwards, who is Jamaican-Nigerian, from Oxfordshire
I was born in Truro, Cornwall. My dad comes from Nigeria, and my mum is from Jamaica. I define my ethnicity as Jamaican-Nigerian, or more broadly Black British and [...]