Don't go there SIANAARRGH!

It takes a lot of confidence to be this ridiculous.

Nomad Blood

 

I live on trains and moving things

City dweller beneath the skin

Living off earth and beautiful things

Moving through concrete jungles and finished lands

Taking pictures of faces

Mental notes

I’ve travelled to places

You’d call the ends of the earth

Writing psalms

Oh the ink, the grime

Putting pen to paper

Repeating scenes

Analogies

Anatomies

Black and white photographs

Taken from a movie

Nomad blood on the streets

Nomad blood in the heat

Prickly skin and open pores

Temples swelling

Nomad blood in the veins

Maps for arteries

Settling in one place is not for me

There is a whole world to see

I live on trains and moving things

Ups and downs in harmony

City dweller above the skin

Feeding off earth and hideous things

I follow maps and list places to go

And catch my breath

Cold nights

Long mornings

Final hours

Final flows

Time is a concoction

No roots and yet I have many

But the nomad in me

Moves through, moves freely

Picks up news and people

Collects stories from ghosts

But is never haunted

I live on trains and moving things

City dweller beneath the skin

Living off earth and beautiful things

Defying space and time

And dreamlike states of being

This nomad blood is mine for the keeping

Through veins pumping

And sustaining me

Until the next journey

Offering thinking time

Ink, grime, ink, grime, ink, grime, ink, grime.

 

 

 

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June has been a lot. As a society we have much to think about and reflect on and most importantly, changes have to be made to the very structures Britain is built on. 2017 has been No Fly on the WALL's year of re-imagining such structures and our society at large and what an event series it has been. From re-imagining Black love as revolutionary to re-imagining the transformative power of anger, the place of Black women in activism and revolution and most recently, re-imagining Black fatherhood. A topic that has been on the lips of many of us is gentrification - pertinent now more than ever - and to mark No Fly on the WALL's fourth birthday, we'll be gathering to discuss this phenomenon and what can be done about it by local people. Through the eyes and perspectives of Black British female filmmakers, we'll explore what gentrification is, its effects on local communities, how we find ourselves complicit in the process and how we can resist the turfing out of working class communities in areas they turned into vibrant communities. We'll be screening my short film short film, 'Denim' and 'Destination Deptford' by Olivia Douglass, as well as a snippet of Shola Amoo's 'A Moving Image' focusing on #Brixton. After the screenings, I'll be in conversation with filmmakers Susuana Amoah (@susuana_xx) and Olivia Douglass and actress and star of 'A Moving Image', Tanya Fear. Get your early bird and standard tickets by following the link in my bio and we'll see you there. Birthday cake is also promised. 🎂 🎈 #Gentrification #Films #ShortFilm #ThisIsDenim #Screening #London #AMovingImage #Brixton #Deptford #SouthEastLondon Trying to remember him as the bright beaming light he was. Tonight hundreds of us gathered to honour him. Short life or not, his was a life lived abundantly. And I'm a better person because I had the honour of being one of his friends. This grief is the heaviest weight I've ever carried. But as a friend said today, to get through it I have to feel it. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Biggest winner of this farcical election? Undoubtedly the youth vote. We were underestimated and in response we clapbacked HARD. It took May and her Tories by surprise. It upset the status quo. It fucked up the powers that be. And it's clearly upset A LOT OF PEOPLE who only value 'democracy' when it's on their terms, benefitting them only. They wanted young people to quietly watch whilst the older generation literally destroy our future before our very eyes. No more. The status quo has been rumbled. Record numbers of young people not only registered to vote this time, they actually went out and used their vote. People who had never voted before went out and exercised their democratic right. Now they've voted once, they will vote again. It's the new norm. There are bitter folks claiming young people, the future generation and leaders of this country, have 'ruined' it by voting #Labour. Hilarious. What we're doing is fixing things, for the many and not the few. Some of y'all claim we don't understand politics or understand what we voted for, simply blindly voting for the promise of free education. Nothing wrong with that if that was the case BUT it's not even close. We've voted for change, integrity and decency. We want this evil selfish government out. We're closer to that now than we've been in a long while. Congratulations young people - the future is in good hands so long as we don't lose our momentum. 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Footage soon come once I work out how to snatch it from their Twitter, lol. In the meantime watch 'Denim' by following the link in my bio. ---------------------------------------------- Also, for those asking why it's called 'Denim': I noticed that all the hipsters liked wearing denim. It was like their uniform. Ironic considering the material originally being the uniform of the 'common man' /'common worker'/ the working classes. As we know though, a garment that began as folk's working clothes progressed over the years to become one of the most popular items of casual wear in modern society. What makes jeans so appealing is that they make no distinction between classes, genders and age groups. So in many ways the gentrifiers look just like those whose lives they're affecting. Ultimately we are the same but of course all men - in the eyes of our two-tier society catered to the few at the expense of the many - were not born equal. Food for thought. #Gentrification #London #SouthEastLondon #Denim #ShortFilm #TV #Interviews #Filmmaker #Society #Documentary

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