Speaking out

From a flurry of action to a mature daily practice

My father was always busy and barely spoke to us – and never in Hindi. He felt that ‘children were the mother’s province’, so we were brought up without even the basics of Indian culture.

A middle-aged, small island, sea-level Caribbean person climbs Mount Kilimanjaro…and survives to tell the tale.

Eat your greens to feed hope.

Using magical realism to interrogate history.

Anjum Malik tells us why writing in Urdu is important to her and how she reveals secrets, hidden in the Asian community, through her writing.

Zena Edwards remembers her school career advisor’s inability to make connections for her and looks forward to a future outside of the literary establishment.

To adopt the elephant in the room.

A Tamil woman's universe of English.

The ‘hidden’ racially-charged words in UK children’s writing.

Educating myself to see beyond the stereotypes of the black man as presented through history.

Teach to learn, and other rules for excellence.