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Recent Posts

  • Artist in Residence: Mental Health June 2, 2017
  • Intersectionality – a Definition, History, and Guide February 10, 2017
  • The Ordinary Skincare Follow-Up Review February 8, 2017
  • Publication: A Room of Our Own: An Anthology of Feminist and Womanist Writing December 13, 2016
  • Review: How You Might Know Me by Sabrina Mahfouz November 19, 2016
When a band's new album is so, so good and comes at a time you need it most so you buy a posturing tee. • #touchedbylove #stagefouralbum #toucheamore #flowersandyou #newhalloween #gather #rapture #bandtee #allthefilters Inspired. What an incredible, incredible day. So much talent. So many young writers, new performers. So many people mentioned how needed this is, how needed the safe space is. And it was so, so obvious by the topics and the quality of the work that people read out. Totally unlike anything I've seen in Cardiff's spoken word scene. There's a need. There's an audience. We need to tell our stories. We need to project our voices and be heard. Blown away. And we filled the room! People were standing in the doorway! Ahh! #dowhatyoulove #community #WhereImComingFrom #BAMEvoices #welshliterature #wales #fullhouse #spokenword #literature #openmic The sun is actually trying to break into my house though. Gold bouncing off the walls. 6 am and I haven't slept a wink. Shout out to my nocturnal/insomnia pattern for being at an all-time screwed up this week. Me talking about why I wrote 'Nowadays'. A friend of mine called it 'an exercise in frustration' or as I like to call it 'my cathartic story'. He's right in a way - it is an exercise in frustration but I'm still glad I did it to get it out of my system and open myself up to other ideas. One thing I'm slowly learning is that you have to write what is bursting to come out of you at the time even if hindsight makes you question why you did. Write what matters to you despite what everyone thinks or expects. It's easy to get lost in 'catering to certain audiences' but you gotta do you. The piece is up on thelonelycrowd.org ICYMI: I've co-organised this to promote more BAME voices in literature in Wales. It came after conversations with woc in South Wales who felt that mainstream events didn't cater to them or felt like safe enough spaces for them. We want to bridge the gap between communities, keep it grassroots, accessible and just engage in dialogue and push boundaries (would you expect anything less from me?) Hope to see many familiar and new faces there. We have big aims and plans for collabs for this in the future if it goes well. • Pic 1: the lovely Buzz Mag featuring our event. Pic 2 onwards: Event poster and details of hosts and confirmed writers. There's also an open mic after the break! The Facebook event page is in my bio. Spread the word and be there. Diolch ❤️ Looking forward to escaping again. I love the feeling of moving in another direction. I love my comfort zones but the feeling of moving forward and leaving things, baggage, people, cities behind, even if temporarily, is so bloody liberating.

Recent Posts

  • Artist in Residence: Mental Health June 2, 2017
  • Intersectionality – a Definition, History, and Guide February 10, 2017
  • The Ordinary Skincare Follow-Up Review February 8, 2017

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