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As the dust settled on My Father’s Shadow’s historic BAFTAs win, @spaceflop sat down with @akinoladaviesjr to talk about the film (which he directed and co-wrote with his brother Wale) that is blazing a trail for Nigerian cinema. “Despite not having returned to the motherland in over two decades, I could still smell this film,” Fopé writes. “The searing heat, the dust of Lagos streets, the fried akara at a roadside stall, the busyness of it all.” “Watching Akinola’s rendition of Nigeria, I felt the strangeness of the familiarity: how memory of a place can linger in you even when you are so far away, and how it can travel with you, sink into your bones and your imagination, and how a film, at its best, can make that transposition tangible for anyone watching.” Design @nn.aa.ii 📸 @zeeeeeea /articles/see/the-nigeria-we-carry-with-us/

🌸 Made a poster for the tastiest, shiniest workshop going 🌸 Make a piece of jewellery with @zoe__eliza & cake decorating by @rowan.beasley Go buyyyy your tickets 🌸💍💅💐🌼

@graceblenkinsop recently spent some time in Brixton with the indomitable Stella Dadzie - educator, Black historian, feminist activist and co-founder of OWAAD (Organisation of African and Asian Descent) alongside her friend Olive Morris. Grace and Stella talk about Black sisterhood, intergenerational legacies and the radical histories of Black British feminism, now live on @shado.mag “I have a sense of the ancestors working on us and trying to intervene where possible,” Stella tells Grace. “There’s a force field in us that has brought this about, and all we can do is honour it, value it, and make sure it is remembered… that to me is real sisterhood.” /articles/do/beyond-friendship-the-black-british-womens-movement-and-the-importance-of-sisterhood/

Are you a fan of America’s Sweethearts? The hit docuseries exploring the lives of the “often imitated but never equalled” Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders wrapped its second season in June - ending with a 400% pay rise for the cohort. @thepeopleshannah writes about the lessons in organising we can all learn from the cheerleaders’ win and the clever use of storytelling to build collective power. @dccheerleaders “Everyone who organises in their workplace has to reckon with similar tensions of leveraging public support without alienating it,” Hannah writes. “While a union or group of workers might find it beneficial to take their fight public and add the potential cost of reputational damage to their employer, they must be creative in finding ways to channel this public support in a way that actually advances their struggle.” 🎨 @nn.aa.ii ⛓️ link in @shado.mag bio or at /articles/see/lessons-in-organising-how-the-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-won-a-400-pay-raise/

Had the chance to create a logo for the BACK to BACK champions the @lionesses x @thisfangirl_ Creator Club which was a crew of amazing creatives reacting to the Lioness Euros journey through creativity, art, style, self-expression, and everything in between. So cool to see all the other creatives involved in this (slide three for their fabulousssss creations ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥) and to see the Lionesses take the crown AGAIN 👑❤️‍🔥😍 #fundwomenssports !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For a belated birthday present, a friend got @jamilfarouk a ticket to ‘Sinners.’ Afterwards, Jamil spoke to shado editor @adebayoqa to dissect the relationship between Blackness and queerness which - purposefully or otherwise - is so embedded in the film. “Although set nearly a century ago, the world sketched in Sinners is familiar – even while creative storytelling and the use of the supernatural might attempt a distancing. For Black people, the world is still a dangerous place that requires hypervigilance, agility and endurance to navigate somewhat successfully. This experience of danger is mirrored in queer lives, and when superimposed on Black experiences, queer and Black experiences reveal themselves to be twins, identical, but not fully symmetrical nor indistinguishable.” /articles/see/sex-sight-and-storytelling-in-ryan-cooglers-sinners/ 🎨 @nn.aa.ii who says: “I wanted this collage to explore both belonging and otherness, reflecting the duality discussed in the article. The overlapping and removal of circles between the two halves represents the tension and blending of identities, showing traces of shared experience within the other. I also wanted to capture the intimacy and storytelling at the heart of the film, so I used stills to reflect that emotional depth.”

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Fun fun fun creating the artwork for @shado.mag (not so) new audio series 📢💥 “Hosted by @flrs.carla , shado in focus is shado’s new weekly audio series. We’ll take one article per episode from shado’s archive, for you to listen on the go. In this collection we’ve handpicked some of our favourite pieces, ranging from investigative exposés to interviews and commentary on global issues, all from those with lived experience.“

So lovely to see these postcards IRL in @wellcomecollection reading room! 💌✨  4 artists including myself were each asked to created a postcard design in response to the question ‘what health means to you’ The postcards are FREEEEE to send from the museum and can go anywhere in the world, so defo get creative with who and where you share them! Spread some much needed love and joy 🧚🏽‍♀️ Was so fab to be a part of this project along with four other lovely artists @javhux @dwaynewilliamsart @rositooth #postcardproject #globalconnection

In today’s interview @dede.koko speaks to the founders of Birmingham based organisation @maia_group about how they imagine routes to collective liberation. As Nikita says “The words “imagination” and “dreaming” may appear as flimsy placeholders or abstractions for the “practical” work that we associate with more traditional settings like policy-making. However, the call to imagine otherwise is a charged task. It’s a challenge to refuse seemingly immutable systems of oppression as the only reality available to us. To go even further, and widen the scope of what actions and futures therefore become possible.” 🎨 @nn.aa.ii

Founder of @reclaimthesea @tigx__ writes our latest piece on how protecting the right to asylum and the right to protest in the UK is part of the same fight. Tigs got arrested this summer for protesting against Bibby Stockholm. They write: “To me, it could not have been a starker indication that both the right to asylum and the right to protest are under attack in this country. While I was in custody, I was saddened by the thought that even though I was being held on suspicion of breaking the law, I was likely being treated better than most people seeking asylum are treated by authorities when they are first processed in the UK. The act of seeking asylum is being treated as criminal behaviour – despite it being an internationally protected right.” 🎨 @nn.aa.ii who says: “I created the artwork to feel busy, unrestrained and full on to capture the emotion, solidarity, and spirit of protest. ‘No one is safe until we are all safe’ is such a powerful phrase that I wanted it to stand out amongst the chaos. I was inspired by the DIY aspect of protest signs and how these are used all over the globe as an important tool for people to express themselves, stand up for what is right and demand change! [id: hands holding a sign reading NO-ONE IS SAFE UNTIL WE ARE ALL SAFE in red writing. The background is blue and yellow, with collages of protests overlaid.]

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