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Food for thought

#ONETOREAD – MAXINE PEAKE GUEST EDITED MORNING STAR CULTURE. HERE’S MY COLUMN …

By art, article, empowerment, Food for thought, isolation, NEWS, quarantine

Award winning actor, activist, dj and all around beautiful person, Maxine Peake was the Guest Editor of the Culture section of Morning Star newspaper at the end of June. She invited me to write an opinion piece on how COVID and lockdown has affected my work and life. Here is my column.

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#ONETOREAD – THAT ONE (BLACK) FRIEND

By empowerment, Food for thought, herstory, NEWS, poetry, Politics, writing

It’s been an intense few weeks finding black people and people of colour landed squarely in the middle of another pandemic – racism. Something has to give. Something has to change. When conversation fails me, I turn to poetry. Here’s a poem I wrote earlier about some of my experiences – it’s not finished yet. I will continue to tweak until it’s right.

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#READALLABOUTIT – WHEN MIXMAG SAID NICE THINGS ABOUT ME – MARCH 2020

By article, awards, DJs, Food for thought, Music, NEWS

At the end of a very difficult week, this little chart arrived on my Twitter feed. Mixmag – your timing was perfect – thank you so much for including me in this list and amongst so many of my absolute icons and bad assed peers. Humbled.

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#YOURPARTYPLANNER – MANCHESTER – JANUARY 25TH 2020

By club nights, festival, Food for thought, GIGS, Manchester, NEWS, YOUR PARTY PLANNER

Get sober. Stay fresh. Keep moving. Clubs / bars, brands and brewers are getting positively behind non-drinkers here in Manchester. Join us for a free daytime festival at Wilson’s Social The Low & No Festival – Free Entry on Saturday January 25th from midday till 5pm. Then roll with me to The Pen and Pencil from 8pm – 2am for seven hours of disco, funk and soul classics that will remind you what your dancing feet are for.

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SKIDDLE MENTAL HEALTH PANEL, JOSHUA BROOKES 03/10/2018

By article, blog, Food for thought, NEWS, nightclubs, psychological

Last Wednesday (October 3rd) I took part in the Skiddle Mental Health event that was held at Joshua Brookes. The focus of the discussion was a poll that Skiddle had commissioned, drawing some staggering statistics from a sample of events workers, organisations and promoters regarding the effects their work / jobs have on their mental health.

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