More evidence of how totally “not racist” the British Conservative Party is 👀 #ProtectDianeAbbott #knowyourhistory #ToxicTories
More evidence of how totally “not racist” the British Conservative Party is 👀 #ProtectDianeAbbott #knowyourhistory #ToxicTories
More evidence of how totally “not racist” the British Conservative Party is 👀 #ProtectDianeAbbott #knowyourhistory #ToxicTories
First reviews are IN! Decolonising My Body is Hirsch’s pilgrimage towards another definition of rest and care, one that feels ancestral and intimate. As a reader you can’t help but be swept up in her quest of gentle unlearning and relearning ~ Guardian “disarmingly honest… quietly radical” ~ Evening Standard 🙌🏽💫📖🙏🏽 #DecolonisingMyBody #book #bookreview #bookstagram #DMB Decolonising My Body – in all good booksshops now 🏃🏽♀️
First reviews are IN! Decolonising My Body is Hirsch’s pilgrimage towards another definition of rest and care, one that feels ancestral and intimate. As a reader you can’t help but be swept up in her quest of gentle unlearning and relearning ~ Guardian “disarmingly honest… quietly radical” ~ Evening Standard 🙌🏽💫📖🙏🏽 #DecolonisingMyBody #book #bookreview #bookstagram #DMB Decolonising My Body – in all good booksshops now 🏃🏽♀️
First reviews are IN! Decolonising My Body is Hirsch’s pilgrimage towards another definition of rest and care, one that feels ancestral and intimate. As a reader you can’t help but be swept up in her quest of gentle unlearning and relearning ~ Guardian “disarmingly honest… quietly radical” ~ Evening Standard 🙌🏽💫📖🙏🏽 #DecolonisingMyBody #book #bookreview #bookstagram #DMB Decolonising My Body – in all good booksshops now 🏃🏽♀️
The world is relentless Keep it moving, question everything, and stay strong 🏃🏽♀️ #morning #run
If you go down to Canary Wharf today, you’ll find a great surprise… you might bump into extracts from Decolonising My Body, you’re welcome ☺️💋👩🏽🏫📚 Thanks to the gorgeous short story station folk @canarywharflondon – legit book lovers who bring these literary extracts to so many local people, especially young people, in East London And to @seanpollockphoto for the portraits and being a joy to work with. It looks strangely tropical here but it was 🥶 📷 @seanpollockphoto 👗 @alemais.official 💍 @otiumberg Earrings @yaayaalondon Tattoo @emmy_la_grizzly Braids @newnewnatural Styled by @melwilkinson1 #DecolonisingMyBody #DMB @squarepegbooks @vintagebooks @penguinukbooks In all good bookshops now!
If you go down to Canary Wharf today, you’ll find a great surprise… you might bump into extracts from Decolonising My Body, you’re welcome ☺️💋👩🏽🏫📚 Thanks to the gorgeous short story station folk @canarywharflondon – legit book lovers who bring these literary extracts to so many local people, especially young people, in East London And to @seanpollockphoto for the portraits and being a joy to work with. It looks strangely tropical here but it was 🥶 📷 @seanpollockphoto 👗 @alemais.official 💍 @otiumberg Earrings @yaayaalondon Tattoo @emmy_la_grizzly Braids @newnewnatural Styled by @melwilkinson1 #DecolonisingMyBody #DMB @squarepegbooks @vintagebooks @penguinukbooks In all good bookshops now!
If you go down to Canary Wharf today, you’ll find a great surprise… you might bump into extracts from Decolonising My Body, you’re welcome ☺️💋👩🏽🏫📚 Thanks to the gorgeous short story station folk @canarywharflondon – legit book lovers who bring these literary extracts to so many local people, especially young people, in East London And to @seanpollockphoto for the portraits and being a joy to work with. It looks strangely tropical here but it was 🥶 📷 @seanpollockphoto 👗 @alemais.official 💍 @otiumberg Earrings @yaayaalondon Tattoo @emmy_la_grizzly Braids @newnewnatural Styled by @melwilkinson1 #DecolonisingMyBody #DMB @squarepegbooks @vintagebooks @penguinukbooks In all good bookshops now!
If you go down to Canary Wharf today, you’ll find a great surprise… you might bump into extracts from Decolonising My Body, you’re welcome ☺️💋👩🏽🏫📚 Thanks to the gorgeous short story station folk @canarywharflondon – legit book lovers who bring these literary extracts to so many local people, especially young people, in East London And to @seanpollockphoto for the portraits and being a joy to work with. It looks strangely tropical here but it was 🥶 📷 @seanpollockphoto 👗 @alemais.official 💍 @otiumberg Earrings @yaayaalondon Tattoo @emmy_la_grizzly Braids @newnewnatural Styled by @melwilkinson1 #DecolonisingMyBody #DMB @squarepegbooks @vintagebooks @penguinukbooks In all good bookshops now!
If you go down to Canary Wharf today, you’ll find a great surprise… you might bump into extracts from Decolonising My Body, you’re welcome ☺️💋👩🏽🏫📚 Thanks to the gorgeous short story station folk @canarywharflondon – legit book lovers who bring these literary extracts to so many local people, especially young people, in East London And to @seanpollockphoto for the portraits and being a joy to work with. It looks strangely tropical here but it was 🥶 📷 @seanpollockphoto 👗 @alemais.official 💍 @otiumberg Earrings @yaayaalondon Tattoo @emmy_la_grizzly Braids @newnewnatural Styled by @melwilkinson1 #DecolonisingMyBody #DMB @squarepegbooks @vintagebooks @penguinukbooks In all good bookshops now!
If you go down to Canary Wharf today, you’ll find a great surprise… you might bump into extracts from Decolonising My Body, you’re welcome ☺️💋👩🏽🏫📚 Thanks to the gorgeous short story station folk @canarywharflondon – legit book lovers who bring these literary extracts to so many local people, especially young people, in East London And to @seanpollockphoto for the portraits and being a joy to work with. It looks strangely tropical here but it was 🥶 📷 @seanpollockphoto 👗 @alemais.official 💍 @otiumberg Earrings @yaayaalondon Tattoo @emmy_la_grizzly Braids @newnewnatural Styled by @melwilkinson1 #DecolonisingMyBody #DMB @squarepegbooks @vintagebooks @penguinukbooks In all good bookshops now!
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair Must read #books #bookstagram #mustread #memoir #Jamaica #rastafari #stories #bookreview
Last week I had the once in a lifetime privilege of launching my book Decolonising My Body with three icons of the Black British canon 🙇🏽♀️ And since my book is a love letter to the genius of black women, it could not have been more humbling and fitting From my heart thank you!!! @bernardineevaristo whose work I have admired for YEARS, ever since I read Blonde Roots in 2008 (read it!) only to discover she had an incredible body of work – currently books!) who is generous and intentional about creating space for generation after generation of new writers, AND who won the Booker Prize for her stunning Girl Woman Other @wimbookfest @adjoa.andoh whose directing and performing in plays, films, TV have inspired me since childhood, when she was a staple on British TV and stage at a time when it was beyond rare. And please let’s not forget audiobooks – my rule of thumb is if she’s narrating it, I’m listening to it. Oh yeah, and some of you know her as Lady Danbury 🤩👀 @faneproductions @jackiekaypoet a whole Poet Laureate, exquisite writer, delightful human, and whose memoir Red Dust Road was a life changing read, in part for introducing me to her world of formidable black women creatives from the 80’s, a world I grew up not even realising existed! And, of course, I only just learned, Bernardine and Adjoa are among the characters I was so enamoured with when I read about it. WHAT A CREW @mcrlitfest Legends launched my book and I don’t know what else to say except thank you 💫🙏🏽🙈 #DecolonisingMyBody #book #launch #bookstagram #knowyourhistory Decolonising My Body is in all good bookshops now! Link in bio 🏃🏽♀️
Last week I had the once in a lifetime privilege of launching my book Decolonising My Body with three icons of the Black British canon 🙇🏽♀️ And since my book is a love letter to the genius of black women, it could not have been more humbling and fitting From my heart thank you!!! @bernardineevaristo whose work I have admired for YEARS, ever since I read Blonde Roots in 2008 (read it!) only to discover she had an incredible body of work – currently books!) who is generous and intentional about creating space for generation after generation of new writers, AND who won the Booker Prize for her stunning Girl Woman Other @wimbookfest @adjoa.andoh whose directing and performing in plays, films, TV have inspired me since childhood, when she was a staple on British TV and stage at a time when it was beyond rare. And please let’s not forget audiobooks – my rule of thumb is if she’s narrating it, I’m listening to it. Oh yeah, and some of you know her as Lady Danbury 🤩👀 @faneproductions @jackiekaypoet a whole Poet Laureate, exquisite writer, delightful human, and whose memoir Red Dust Road was a life changing read, in part for introducing me to her world of formidable black women creatives from the 80’s, a world I grew up not even realising existed! And, of course, I only just learned, Bernardine and Adjoa are among the characters I was so enamoured with when I read about it. WHAT A CREW @mcrlitfest Legends launched my book and I don’t know what else to say except thank you 💫🙏🏽🙈 #DecolonisingMyBody #book #launch #bookstagram #knowyourhistory Decolonising My Body is in all good bookshops now! Link in bio 🏃🏽♀️
Last week I had the once in a lifetime privilege of launching my book Decolonising My Body with three icons of the Black British canon 🙇🏽♀️ And since my book is a love letter to the genius of black women, it could not have been more humbling and fitting From my heart thank you!!! @bernardineevaristo whose work I have admired for YEARS, ever since I read Blonde Roots in 2008 (read it!) only to discover she had an incredible body of work – currently books!) who is generous and intentional about creating space for generation after generation of new writers, AND who won the Booker Prize for her stunning Girl Woman Other @wimbookfest @adjoa.andoh whose directing and performing in plays, films, TV have inspired me since childhood, when she was a staple on British TV and stage at a time when it was beyond rare. And please let’s not forget audiobooks – my rule of thumb is if she’s narrating it, I’m listening to it. Oh yeah, and some of you know her as Lady Danbury 🤩👀 @faneproductions @jackiekaypoet a whole Poet Laureate, exquisite writer, delightful human, and whose memoir Red Dust Road was a life changing read, in part for introducing me to her world of formidable black women creatives from the 80’s, a world I grew up not even realising existed! And, of course, I only just learned, Bernardine and Adjoa are among the characters I was so enamoured with when I read about it. WHAT A CREW @mcrlitfest Legends launched my book and I don’t know what else to say except thank you 💫🙏🏽🙈 #DecolonisingMyBody #book #launch #bookstagram #knowyourhistory Decolonising My Body is in all good bookshops now! Link in bio 🏃🏽♀️
Spike Lee exhibition @brooklynmuseum is an ode to African American creative and cultural icons as much as a retrospective of his own work Malcolm X – a film he had to fundraise from the black community to make, an act of solidarity and belief of which I remind myself often A Ghana film poster, reminder of the global impact of that film; especially for the oppressed and the colonised Toni Morrison, my writer GOAT Portrait here by @timokamura , 2020 A 1986 @nytimes article about She’s Gotta Have it “Mr Lee anticipates that “She’s Gotta Have It” will spawn considerable controversy, since it shows behaviour and attitudes that some blacks might not want whites to see, especially in the wake of the furor surrounding “The Color Purple.” *Fascinating* A painting which breaks my heart every time I see it. Sarah Weaver’s “Boy behind the mask of Michael Jackson”, 2008 Spike Lee with his grandfather, Richard Jackson Shelton, circa 1960’s. I really love this photo I spent a super memorable afternoon with Spike Lee in 2016 and learned so much more about him today! Also about time to see Brooklyn Museum acknowledging its location in Lenapehoking on land stolen from the Lenape people And the long complicity of it and other colonial era museums in erasing and profiting from those crimes #knowyourhistory #spikelee #exhibition #movie #greats #black #art
Spike Lee exhibition @brooklynmuseum is an ode to African American creative and cultural icons as much as a retrospective of his own work Malcolm X – a film he had to fundraise from the black community to make, an act of solidarity and belief of which I remind myself often A Ghana film poster, reminder of the global impact of that film; especially for the oppressed and the colonised Toni Morrison, my writer GOAT Portrait here by @timokamura , 2020 A 1986 @nytimes article about She’s Gotta Have it “Mr Lee anticipates that “She’s Gotta Have It” will spawn considerable controversy, since it shows behaviour and attitudes that some blacks might not want whites to see, especially in the wake of the furor surrounding “The Color Purple.” *Fascinating* A painting which breaks my heart every time I see it. Sarah Weaver’s “Boy behind the mask of Michael Jackson”, 2008 Spike Lee with his grandfather, Richard Jackson Shelton, circa 1960’s. I really love this photo I spent a super memorable afternoon with Spike Lee in 2016 and learned so much more about him today! Also about time to see Brooklyn Museum acknowledging its location in Lenapehoking on land stolen from the Lenape people And the long complicity of it and other colonial era museums in erasing and profiting from those crimes #knowyourhistory #spikelee #exhibition #movie #greats #black #art
Spike Lee exhibition @brooklynmuseum is an ode to African American creative and cultural icons as much as a retrospective of his own work Malcolm X – a film he had to fundraise from the black community to make, an act of solidarity and belief of which I remind myself often A Ghana film poster, reminder of the global impact of that film; especially for the oppressed and the colonised Toni Morrison, my writer GOAT Portrait here by @timokamura , 2020 A 1986 @nytimes article about She’s Gotta Have it “Mr Lee anticipates that “She’s Gotta Have It” will spawn considerable controversy, since it shows behaviour and attitudes that some blacks might not want whites to see, especially in the wake of the furor surrounding “The Color Purple.” *Fascinating* A painting which breaks my heart every time I see it. Sarah Weaver’s “Boy behind the mask of Michael Jackson”, 2008 Spike Lee with his grandfather, Richard Jackson Shelton, circa 1960’s. I really love this photo I spent a super memorable afternoon with Spike Lee in 2016 and learned so much more about him today! Also about time to see Brooklyn Museum acknowledging its location in Lenapehoking on land stolen from the Lenape people And the long complicity of it and other colonial era museums in erasing and profiting from those crimes #knowyourhistory #spikelee #exhibition #movie #greats #black #art
Spike Lee exhibition @brooklynmuseum is an ode to African American creative and cultural icons as much as a retrospective of his own work Malcolm X – a film he had to fundraise from the black community to make, an act of solidarity and belief of which I remind myself often A Ghana film poster, reminder of the global impact of that film; especially for the oppressed and the colonised Toni Morrison, my writer GOAT Portrait here by @timokamura , 2020 A 1986 @nytimes article about She’s Gotta Have it “Mr Lee anticipates that “She’s Gotta Have It” will spawn considerable controversy, since it shows behaviour and attitudes that some blacks might not want whites to see, especially in the wake of the furor surrounding “The Color Purple.” *Fascinating* A painting which breaks my heart every time I see it. Sarah Weaver’s “Boy behind the mask of Michael Jackson”, 2008 Spike Lee with his grandfather, Richard Jackson Shelton, circa 1960’s. I really love this photo I spent a super memorable afternoon with Spike Lee in 2016 and learned so much more about him today! Also about time to see Brooklyn Museum acknowledging its location in Lenapehoking on land stolen from the Lenape people And the long complicity of it and other colonial era museums in erasing and profiting from those crimes #knowyourhistory #spikelee #exhibition #movie #greats #black #art
Spike Lee exhibition @brooklynmuseum is an ode to African American creative and cultural icons as much as a retrospective of his own work Malcolm X – a film he had to fundraise from the black community to make, an act of solidarity and belief of which I remind myself often A Ghana film poster, reminder of the global impact of that film; especially for the oppressed and the colonised Toni Morrison, my writer GOAT Portrait here by @timokamura , 2020 A 1986 @nytimes article about She’s Gotta Have it “Mr Lee anticipates that “She’s Gotta Have It” will spawn considerable controversy, since it shows behaviour and attitudes that some blacks might not want whites to see, especially in the wake of the furor surrounding “The Color Purple.” *Fascinating* A painting which breaks my heart every time I see it. Sarah Weaver’s “Boy behind the mask of Michael Jackson”, 2008 Spike Lee with his grandfather, Richard Jackson Shelton, circa 1960’s. I really love this photo I spent a super memorable afternoon with Spike Lee in 2016 and learned so much more about him today! Also about time to see Brooklyn Museum acknowledging its location in Lenapehoking on land stolen from the Lenape people And the long complicity of it and other colonial era museums in erasing and profiting from those crimes #knowyourhistory #spikelee #exhibition #movie #greats #black #art
Spike Lee exhibition @brooklynmuseum is an ode to African American creative and cultural icons as much as a retrospective of his own work Malcolm X – a film he had to fundraise from the black community to make, an act of solidarity and belief of which I remind myself often A Ghana film poster, reminder of the global impact of that film; especially for the oppressed and the colonised Toni Morrison, my writer GOAT Portrait here by @timokamura , 2020 A 1986 @nytimes article about She’s Gotta Have it “Mr Lee anticipates that “She’s Gotta Have It” will spawn considerable controversy, since it shows behaviour and attitudes that some blacks might not want whites to see, especially in the wake of the furor surrounding “The Color Purple.” *Fascinating* A painting which breaks my heart every time I see it. Sarah Weaver’s “Boy behind the mask of Michael Jackson”, 2008 Spike Lee with his grandfather, Richard Jackson Shelton, circa 1960’s. I really love this photo I spent a super memorable afternoon with Spike Lee in 2016 and learned so much more about him today! Also about time to see Brooklyn Museum acknowledging its location in Lenapehoking on land stolen from the Lenape people And the long complicity of it and other colonial era museums in erasing and profiting from those crimes #knowyourhistory #spikelee #exhibition #movie #greats #black #art
Spike Lee exhibition @brooklynmuseum is an ode to African American creative and cultural icons as much as a retrospective of his own work Malcolm X – a film he had to fundraise from the black community to make, an act of solidarity and belief of which I remind myself often A Ghana film poster, reminder of the global impact of that film; especially for the oppressed and the colonised Toni Morrison, my writer GOAT Portrait here by @timokamura , 2020 A 1986 @nytimes article about She’s Gotta Have it “Mr Lee anticipates that “She’s Gotta Have It” will spawn considerable controversy, since it shows behaviour and attitudes that some blacks might not want whites to see, especially in the wake of the furor surrounding “The Color Purple.” *Fascinating* A painting which breaks my heart every time I see it. Sarah Weaver’s “Boy behind the mask of Michael Jackson”, 2008 Spike Lee with his grandfather, Richard Jackson Shelton, circa 1960’s. I really love this photo I spent a super memorable afternoon with Spike Lee in 2016 and learned so much more about him today! Also about time to see Brooklyn Museum acknowledging its location in Lenapehoking on land stolen from the Lenape people And the long complicity of it and other colonial era museums in erasing and profiting from those crimes #knowyourhistory #spikelee #exhibition #movie #greats #black #art
