Category: Introducing BlackOut UK
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WATCH: #Speechless Series No.3 My Liberation can Wait?
The #SpeechlessSeries is a space for BlackoutUK contributors to provoke a conversation that challenges the silence. Here Rob Berkeley considers the challenge of progressive activism when your own liberation is seen as less important than that of others? “The writer trapped among a speechless people is in danger of becoming speechless himself. For then he…
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WATCH: #Speechless Series No.2 Coming out to What?
The #SpeechlessSeries is a space for BlackoutUK contributors to provoke a conversation that challenges the silence. Here Rob Berkeley shares his story and argues that encouraging people to come out is not enough – coming out to what? “The writer trapped among a speechless people is in danger of becoming speechless himself. For then…
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Read: The History Month Gift
We build our temples for tomorrow . . . we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves
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Crossing Deep Waters
I need new conversations to take me forward or perhaps take me back
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Adventures in unchartered territory
It’s liberating to write your own rules; to be able to sidestep some of the social expectations that act as constraints for so many.
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If you build it . . .
I was inspired by the reality that we have always created what was needed to meet our aspirations and needs
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WATCH:#Speechless Series No.1 Sex, Masculinity and Racism
The #SpeechlessSeries is a space for BlackoutUK contributors to provoke a conversation that challenges the silence. Here Rob Berkeley wonders who to be angrier at, white racists or black people who enable them? “The writer trapped among a speechless people is in danger of becoming speechless himself. For then he has no mirror, no corroborations…