Skin Deep Anthology

Marking ten years of cultural production in service of racial justice, Skin Deep's Anthology brings together selections from the archive and brand new commissions to explore time: how we experience it, how it controls our lives, and how it can be reconfigured. The stories collected here, old and new, are all about retrospection, inheritance, archiving, rhythm, pacing and change.

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Through essays, features, poetry, illustration, photography, music, film, theatre, art and conversation, Anthology traces the creative and political lineages we are a part of. It’s about zooming out to understand the timescales on which movements for justice operate, an exercise that helps sustain hope over long periods of what can feel like failure. Skin Deep wants to unravel the false notion that the temporal regime we live under now – rooted in the earliest establishment of racial capitalism – is the only option. 

Read the foreword for this issue here: The rhythm changes

Featuring: Akasha Rabut / Aliyah Hussain / Andre Anderson / Anuradha Henriques / Ashley Holmes / Courtney Yusuf / Dhelia Snoussi / Dionne Pajarillaga / Emma Uwejoma / Eva Louise Grant / Evie Muir / Gary Younge / Grace Lee / Inua Ellams / Jacob V Joyce / Joey Yu / Jordan T. Jones / Joshua Idehen / Julian Henriques / June Bellebono / Leo Macdonald Oulds / Lina Abushouk / Lina Soualem / Maymana Arefin / Micha Frazer-Carroll / Milo Matthieu / Nkenna Ibeakanma / Osahon Ize-Iyamu / Parham Ghalamdar / Parminder Vir / Phương Anh / Rayya Fadlo Khuri / Sarah Al-Sarraj / Sarathy Korwar / Shabaka Hutchings / Shailja Patel / Shirley Ahura / Shweta Sharma / Sophia Siddiqui / Sylvia Hong / Thuận / Tomekah George / Tunji Adeniyi-Jones / Vishnu Strangeways / Yarri Kamara / Yuna Chang / Zarina Muhammad / Zena Agha