Tag: Representation
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WATCH: #Speechless Series No.4 ‘No where are you really from?’
The #SpeechlessSeries is a space for BlackoutUK contributors to provoke a conversation that challenges the silence. Here Rob Berkeley wishes that there was an easier answer to the ‘where are you from?’ question. “The writer trapped among a speechless people is in danger of becoming speechless himself. For then he has no mirror, no corroborations of…
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Read: Actions Speak Louder: Mike Daemon
I have experienced discrimination and intimidation first hand myself, and I know how it feels to not be able to speak up, or have someone speak up for you either. The frustration and helplessness that one feels can be very depressing. NoStringsNG is that voice for the voiceless sexual minority person in Nigeria and West…
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Read: Watch This Space – The N Word Podcast
We feel as though there is a gap in media for Gay, Black, Masculine Men. According to mainstream media we just don’t exist
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Read: Watch this space – Karnage
Watch this space introduces new faces and new voices. This month we meet up-and-coming rapper Karnage
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READ: Reggie Yates, Willie and me
The words of James Baldwin, my greatest literary hero constantly speak to me: Something that irritates you and won’t let you go. That’s the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words:…
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READ: The Awokening of Kevin
I’ve met gay men who think they can behave in a certain way and say what they want around me, because they are dating a person of colour.
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Now you see me. . .
Where are the black gay men in UK TV drama?