Taking Up Space
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Taking Up Space
The Black Girl's Manifesto for Change

 

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#Merky Books Live with (L-R) Akala, Jude Yawson, Benjamin Zephaniah and Malorie Blackman

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Speaking at the Adobe Black History Month Event

Speaking at the Adobe Black History Month Event

Speaking at the Adobe Black History Month Event

Speaking at the Adobe Black History Month Event

Speaking at the Adobe Black History Month Event

Speaking at the Adobe Black History Month Event

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TEDxLondonWomen December 2019
TEDxLondonWomen December 2019

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TEDxLondonWomen December 2019

TEDxLondonWomen December 2019
TEDxLondonWomen December 2019

Warwick Africa Summit Breakout Session on Rewriting the Curriculum
Warwick Africa Summit Breakout Session on Rewriting the Curriculum
Warwick Africa Summit Breakout Session on Rewriting the Curriculum
Warwick Africa Summit Breakout Session on Rewriting the Curriculum
Warwick Africa Summit Breakout Session on Rewriting the Curriculum
Warwick Africa Summit Breakout Session on Rewriting the Curriculum
“Taking Up Space” Panel at WOW Festival 2020

“Taking Up Space” Panel at WOW Festival 2020

with Diane Abbott MP at WOW Festival 2020
with Diane Abbott MP at WOW Festival 2020
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Chris McAndrew for The Times
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TAKING UP SPACE
*GIVEAWAY* We are so so excited to be celebrating one year of TAKING UP SPACE! Thank you to everyone who has ever bought, read, reviewed, recommended, shared, or even added Taking Up Space to reading lists. We hope that the stories and experiences a
It’s #indiebookshopweek and we’ve tagged just a few of our favourite indies: 📗 @newbeaconbooks 📕 @roundtablebooks 📘 @jacarandabooks Comment below your favourite Independent bookshops! #indiebookstore #indiebookshop #merkybooks
In our first ever piece for @britishvogue , we offer some advice for students looking to make the best out of an education system seeped in racism. This isn’t a new fight and it’s going to require us to sustain our efforts even when #Blac
we are exhausted and the events of the past few days have been a LOT. black people everywhere are outraged and hurting and frankly, fed up. you can’t really escape it no matter how hard you try. as if the events themselves are not bad enough, y
✨Flashback Friday!✨ Ok, so we’re bored in the house and we’re in the house bored. However, we got thinking about how blessed we were to find such loving and warm spaces at university. It’s easy to remember the hard times instead of
“For me my refuge was my house. I would cook jollof rice or corned beef stew and invite all my favourite people round. Bonding over food that we loved and missed, food that played so much of a role in making up our cultural identities, was impo
We’ve given you TV recommendations, playlists, and still on the theme of wellness, we’ve teamed up with @tonewithtobi to bring you a nice little workout. All you need is a chair and you can give it a go right at your desks. There are also
We made some playlists!! These are some of our favourite listens from some different genres (the descriptions hopefully give you a sense of what we were going for lol.) You can find them on Spotify by searching but we will also link them on our stori