Nine times out of ten When I ask you to describe me The words loud, sassy, and angry make an appearance The angry black woman trope is a longstanding widely spread pernicious stereotype of black women that has found its way into mainstream popular culture, the media, working environments, schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions […]
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We’re thrilled to announce that Siana will be embarking on her Black History Month tour once again this year. Last October she set alight stages across the UK and made headlines. This year you can expect even greater performances of the poetry that makes up ‘Elephant’, her debut collection as well as lots of passion […]
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‘A powerful emerging voice on London’s poetry circuit, Siana Bangura is also reaching into publishing more widely, finding ways around the world’s gatekeepers and ‘no’s. Having recently set up her own publishing house, The Haus of Liberated Reading, through which she published her first poetry collection, Elephant, Bangura is making a path for writers who don’t […]
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