🇵🇸amandla awethu means power to the people🇵🇸

as british as a watermelon (film) is in the Traces of Displacement exhibition at @WhitworthArt til Jan 2024 🤯 ngiyabonga to all who helped make this mess happen @switchflicker @JoFong Sonia Hughes, Michael Hankin, @philthecomic, John Krausa, Ben Liddell, Graham, @leohermitt 🍉

@ShannonSharpe kodwa malume uyenzani lomtwana?

@BalletBlack happy happy birthday! cant wait to see y’all in manchester again next month. siyalibonga 🩵

We are 23 today! 🎊

kodwa

watching people queue for brunch thinking is it ever that deep

@_amiekirby happy birthday lovely!!! 🩵🩵

another trip around the sun -- thanks to my nearest and dearest for making it so fab :)

@daddyhope I will be voting green. Starmer is a tory. Look at the way he’s treated Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn - actual left wing politicians, how he scapegoats trans people and has no respect for the BLM movement

Britain goes to the polls today, there is a general election in Albion today. This is the man who will win this election and become Britain’s new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. He is not charismatic, he is not a popular political figure and doesn’t speak in sound bites. However, his opponent, the current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, is so unpopular that anyone in Labour could have won against him. Regardless of his lack of charisma or popular touch, Starmer will win today. But maybe that is exactly what the British public needs right now, a steady, competent leader in Number 10 who can clean up the mess left by the current Conservative government. Rishi Sunak, while initially popular for his handling of COVID-19 when Finance Minister, has since faced a lot of criticism for failing to tackle the cost of living crisis. Sunak is an unelected Prime Minister, he became Prime Minister after being picked by his parliamentary colleagues, today is his last day in office. Picture; Keir Starmer

@callherzeee 😂😂😂😂😂

@mxmandla No it will not. Yes I am in charge of that too 😂😂

sister bethina will be my wedding iwalk down the aisle song 🥲

@aren_oliver thank you!! it will happen one day, i aspire to be a man with a podcast and only that when i grow up x but yes it’s a very odd episode. i think maybe it should have been written by a black person, a jordan peele type maybe. needed some spook

@mxmandla I haven't seen the latest episode but that would be such a great podcast!

i’ve been thinking about starting a podcast about doctor who and race and my goodness this latest ep is…an example! curious what ppl think about the racism bit, i felt nothing and cringed a bit ngl

pride month is coming, here's a few lgbt moments in pop culture: 1) ryan evans swapping clothes with chad in high school musical 2

@nasimabee how awful, im so sorry my darling 🩵🩵

on friday night myself and 2 friends went to zumuku sushi in didsbury for dinner. it was busy and v warm so we decided to sit outdoors. we ordered food and were chatting away, and out of nowhere an egg was thrown at our table. it all happened so quick and just missed my face.

@princesajesa all i was saying was that there’s ways to show r*pe has happened without showing it over and over and over again for an uncomfortably triggering length of time

@mxmandla @HannahCCoach I don’t understanding what makes either of you entitled to dictate how someone else makes art, especially art about their lived experiences. It’s very important to step outside of yourselves.

I haven’t watched Baby Reindeer. I saw the play at Roundabout in 2019 and i felt it to be an extremely unsafe experience for the audience and the actor. I have however seen much of the discourse which has followed. I find it utterly horrifying that 🧵

@princesajesa being a survivor and getting triggered to hell with no access to care is a difficult situation to be in. nobody said people shouldn’t make art about their lived experiences…that’s what i do for a living so this comment is awks and combative for no reason

@anyataylorolga what i was talking about was the r*pe scenes of which there were so many and they were so long it was triggering. you don’t have to show triggering imagery to make people know that r*pe has happened.

@anyataylorolga @HannahCCoach ….im literally a survivor and make art about my trauma…

@HannahCCoach wanna definitely make it clear it’s very unsafe and i agree with you though 🩵

@HannahCCoach when I watched the play at roundabout I was literally weeping. started watching the show out of curiousity to see what happens to a solo theatre piece that becomes a tv series and i will die on the hill that sexual violence does not need to be acted out. so triggering.

@HannahCCoach i do wonder if there’s anyone who saw it and realised how wrong something that might have happened to them was, when i was younger definitely had friends who had men do things to them when they were blackout drunk but didn’t see it as ~that~ or maybe couldn’t bare to.

This summer, the Globe in London is doing Richard III. They are erasing Richard's disability and having a non-disabled actor playing Richard. This is happening despite the Disabled Artists Alliance having told them how damaging these decisions are to the disabled community. 1/2