Anticolonial films. Black radical films. Films that test new arrangements of the self. Films for a counterpoetics.  

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Reading by Karen McCarthy Woolf

Born in London to English and Jamaican parents, Karen McCarthy Woolf's first poetry collection An Aviary of Small Birds was nominated for the Forward Felix Dennis and Jerwood Prizes and her latest Seasonal Disturbances was a winner in the inaugural Laurel Prize. In 2019 she moved to Los Angeles as a Fulbright postdoctoral scholar and Writer in Residence at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA exploring the relationship between poetry and law. 2021 takes her to Brazil, as an artist in residence at the Sacatar Institute in Bahia writing new work that explores sugar and its cultural and material legacies. - https://www.mccarthywoolf.net/

‘Southall Black Sisters, a not-for-profit, secular and inclusive organisation, was established in 1979 to meet the needs of Black (Asian and African-Caribbean) women. Our aims are to highlight and challenge all forms gender-related violence against women, empower them to gain more control over their lives; live without fear of violence and assert their human rights to justice, equality and freedom.’ -  https://southallblacksisters.org.uk/about/  Image credit: AD—WO, Planetary Scar, 2020 (tapestry detail). Photograph by Naho Kubota.