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Is anything sacred anymore? Is a politics of good faith a losing game? What does it mean to have faith in our times? This year, Skin Deep explores: “Faith”💫 🧵⬇️

If there’s a book, zine or mag you think should live in it, or you want us to bring the pop-up library to somewhere new near you, let us know! 💌

We built our own library! Real ones remember our pop-up at the Anthology issue launch last year, where we curated a mobile archive of all the things in print that shape us & our work. Here’s how we continue the journey in democratising access to print media ⤵️

If there’s a book, zine or mag you think should live in it, or you want us to bring the pop-up library to somewhere new near you, let us know!💌

National Housing Demonstration: Saturday 18 April, 1pm, Central London 🔥 Join the #PlanningBloc & SHAPE! 👏 Planning matters - Time to unite the housing and planning struggles! axethehousingact.org.uk/campaigns/take…

Volunteers from three continents are set to converge in Havana this weekend, with more than 20 tonnes of food, medicine and solar equipment for Cuban communities hit by a brutal US blockade. Activists from more than a dozen countries have signed up to participate in the Nuestra America Convoy, which will see Irish rap trio Kneecap and American streamer Hasan Piker join journalists, politicians and high-profile participants of last year’s Gaza aid flotilla in Havana on 21 March. Alongside up to half a dozen boats that will sail across the Caribbean Sea from Mexico on Thursday, two charter flights are scheduled to arrive later this week, while hundreds of ordinary people carrying suitcases packed with medicines have booked tickets on commercial airlines from around the world. While the US has had some form of blockade on Cuba since the 1950s, Donald Trump has significantly escalated it by threatening to impose tariffs on any country that sells fuel to the island nation, leading to widespread blackouts and disruption to the delivery of food and the production and distribution of medicine. Even everyday essentials such as toothpaste, soap, shampoo and baby food are now difficult to obtain, plunging the country into humanitarian crisis. Organisers say the largest charter flight alone will carry more than £300,000 of aid, including food, medicines, surgical equipment and hygiene supplies, to be distributed by Cuban civil society organisations and directly to hospitals and clinics across the island. The convoy will also deliver nearly £400,000 worth of solar panels and generators. In a statement, Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn condemned the blockade. “For more than six decades, the US blockade has tried to suffocate the Cuban example - a country that, despite relentless economic pressure, built universal healthcare and life expectancy comparable to or higher than the United States,” he said. “Now the Trump administration is escalating that siege in an attempt to break Cuba altogether. “People across the world must stand with the Cuban people, oppose these punitive policies, and demand the right of every nation to live, develop, and determine its own future free from intimidation.”

Work with the Novara Live team! We are looking for a technically proficient, politically engaged Livestream Producer to support our team for one year. This London-based role combines technical expertise with political understanding and requires regular evening work, including Fridays. This is a fixed-term contract for one year with the potential to extend. Apply before the deadline on 5 April here: novaramedia.com/job/livestream….

It's confirmed that more than 60% of the Sudan National Museum's collection in Khartoum was looted during the civil war, particularly while the RSF occupied the site from 2023 into early 2025. You can guess where all these artifacts will end up

In the year ahead at Skin Deep, our season is a space for people of all faiths and none, to think creatively and critically about how faith shows up in how we produce culture and how we build our movements. Read all about it via link in bio 🔗 Come to us, as you are 🤲

Whether it’s our political and economic systems, media institutions, cults of celebrity, supposed social contract or shared ethical codes - we are experiencing a psychic toll on our collective imaginations. So what is to be done?

Beyond the obvious religious connotations, in our new season, we’ll be thinking creatively about what we see as multiple crises of faith in our communities. What does it mean for us to reclaim faith from where it’s been misplaced, weaponised and taken for granted?

Nothing in the coming year is inevitable, and we have seen time and time again how the ground can quickly shift under our feet. How it can feel like a higher power has forsaken us, and then sudden victories can feel heaven-sent.

Is anything sacred anymore? Is a politics of good faith a losing game? What does it mean to have faith in our times? This year, Skin Deep explores: “Faith”💫 🧵⬇️

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO GHANA 🇬🇭 READ KWAME NKRUMAH

Ballaké Sissoko performing ‘Nan Sira Madi’ on COLORS is a reminder that music is mankind’s greatest discovery.

A place for anti-imperialists to help us understand this moment and to give homage to those resisting in any shape or form.

Thinking about circles and fractals in African urban design

This video was taken in Dakar, Senegal 🇸🇳 around 1969, a city in motion where Afro-Cuban rhythms, jazz spirit, and West African traditions collided in the streets and clubs.

NEW ON SKIN DEEP 🧡 Isabella Kajiwara @kajiifire interviews All That’s Left of You director Cherien Dabis @CherienDabis: ‘This Film Asked Everything of Me’ Link in bio 🔗