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Member of the Asian Women Writers Collective from 1984 to the mid-90s. Trustee of the Boards of Clean Break Theatre Company and SADAA (previously known as SALIDAA) a digital archive of Asian Arts and Literature in Britain – exact dates have faded from my memory. Writing CV. Books.
Apr 4, 2016 · Author and Activist. News. Recent publications. Don't Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong was republished in November 2019 with a brilliant analytical introduction by Dr Deirdre Osborne, Reader in English Literature and Drama in the Theatre and Performance Department at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Nov 20, 2019 · Rahila Gupta. Courtesy Charlotte Barnes. While I fully sympathize with the parents’ desperation for any support they could garner, what was worrying was that like in many other cases, religious...
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One of the most influential thinkers on race, A Sivanandan, Director of the Institute for Race Relations from 1972 onwards, articulated a definition of ‘black’ which left its mark on a generation of activists. For him, it was a political colour. It stood for an anti-racist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist politics rooted in the Global South an...
Black was a rolling stone which gathered meanings as it rolled along. For black women the ground they were standing on was eroded not just by race and class; gender too had muddied it. They knew they had to come together to fight on all these grounds, that the struggle for both racial and sexual equality is inextricably linked; that if either strug...
We are facing a similar situation today. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the global rise of Black Lives Matter, part of the British establishment is belatedly falling over itself to give space to black people and issues of racism: reading lists to understand black history; stories of young black people and their experience of growing up he...
Many Asian youngsters will say that the term ‘Black’ simply does not land nowadays and many African-Caribbean youngsters will ask ‘why are you begging black?’ Reni Eddo-Lodge introduces her podcast on Political Blackness with the case of the students’ union at the University of Kent, UK, which got into trouble for including pictures of Sadiq Khan a...
There does appear to be a generational divide in the preference for each label, with ‘People of Colour (PoC)’ among the younger generation. Two members of Sisters Uncut interviewed by Eddo-Lodge thought political blackness was old school. One of them reported that there are people who find the term offensive but ‘it’s not a hill that I’m willing to...
Jan 31, 2018 · Rahila Gupta is a freelance journalist and writer. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and New Humanist among other papers and magazines. Her books include, Enslaved: The New British...
Nov 21, 2019 · Don’t Wake Me adds a fresh dimension to life-writing. Gupta’s birth-body-memoir creates a resilient umbilical dramatic-poetics. As one reviewer writes, ‘she sings out her truth about what was, what might have been, and what still lives with her, in her heart (The Scotsman, 2013).
Campaigning journalist-activist Rahila Gupta has written several plays, and is the editor of From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters and co-author of Circle of Light, a book about the Sikh-British woman Kiranjit Ahluwalia imprisoned for the manslaughter of her abusive husband.
