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  1. “When we try to reduce people, we often try and reduce them to this or that, but we’re all multiple… I think the reason that TRUMPET is still a popular book all these years later is because it deals with some of these questions of multiple identity.”

    —Jackie Kay discusses her 1998 novel TRUMPET with Lavender Menace volunteer Maeve Sheridan.

    lavendermenace.org.uk/jackie-k

    #Scottish #literature #JackieKay #novel #LGBTQ #LGBTQfiction #Queer #QueerLiterature #Trans

  2. “When we try to reduce people, we often try and reduce them to this or that, but we’re all multiple… I think the reason that TRUMPET is still a popular book all these years later is because it deals with some of these questions of multiple identity.”

    —Jackie Kay discusses her 1998 novel TRUMPET with Lavender Menace volunteer Maeve Sheridan.

    lavendermenace.org.uk/jackie-k

    #Scottish #literature #JackieKay #novel #LGBTQ #LGBTQfiction #Queer #QueerLiterature #Trans

  3. “When we try to reduce people, we often try and reduce them to this or that, but we’re all multiple… I think the reason that TRUMPET is still a popular book all these years later is because it deals with some of these questions of multiple identity.”

    —Jackie Kay discusses her 1998 novel TRUMPET with Lavender Menace volunteer Maeve Sheridan.

    lavendermenace.org.uk/jackie-k

    #Scottish #literature #JackieKay #novel #LGBTQ #LGBTQfiction #Queer #QueerLiterature #Trans

  4. “When we try to reduce people, we often try and reduce them to this or that, but we’re all multiple… I think the reason that TRUMPET is still a popular book all these years later is because it deals with some of these questions of multiple identity.”

    —Jackie Kay discusses her 1998 novel TRUMPET with Lavender Menace volunteer Maeve Sheridan.

    lavendermenace.org.uk/jackie-k

    #Scottish #literature #JackieKay #novel #LGBTQ #LGBTQfiction #Queer #QueerLiterature #Trans

  5. “When we try to reduce people, we often try and reduce them to this or that, but we’re all multiple… I think the reason that TRUMPET is still a popular book all these years later is because it deals with some of these questions of multiple identity.”

    —Jackie Kay discusses her 1998 novel TRUMPET with Lavender Menace volunteer Maeve Sheridan.

    lavendermenace.org.uk/jackie-k

    #Scottish #literature #JackieKay #novel #LGBTQ #LGBTQfiction #Queer #QueerLiterature #Trans

  6. Writing Our Mothers
    Archive on 4

    ‘Mothers have such a weight of idealisation and expectation landed upon their bodies and their minds and what women writers can do is to take that apart and explore
    its underbelly,’ says feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.

    Whether worshipped or vilified, treated as lifetime confidantes or rarely trusted, the mothers we meet when we write them are re-inventions. Some may be closer to the
    truth than others. Many of them will have roots in the life experiences of the daughter-writer. Virginia Woolf, who lost her mother at the age of 13, said she was obsessed with writing her mother. Eventually she also argued that it was ‘the occupation of the woman writer to kill’ what she called ‘The Angel in the House’ – the perfect, self-sacrificing mother – who may well have been her own maternal influence.

    Drawing on interviews with Maya Angelou, we hear how for her to write her mother was to ‘write about a hurricane in its perfect power’. She describes how the influence of a mother who ‘abandoned’ her as a child forced her most urgent examinations of class, race and, importantly love. In another frank interview with Marguerite Duras from 1968, she describes writing as a search for connection with her raging and ‘mad’ mother. For Sylvia Plath, the process of writing about becoming a mother herself in the 1950s produced work of a psychic intensity rarely seen before.

    What the archive ultimately reveals is that a mother, whether present or absent, loving or cruel, might be as formative an influence on a writer’s work, as in life. ‘When I read about motherhood, I want to be shaken loose from whatever limitations I have when I think about what that means,’ says the writer Siri Hustvedt.

    With contributions from Susie Orbach, Jacqueline Rose, Kit de Waal and Siri Hustvedt, and narration from Amaka Okafor.

    Produced by Sarah Cuddon
    A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    Archive sources:
    Desert Island Discs with Arundhati Roy (2017)
    A Chance to Meet ... Edna O'Brien (1971)
    Sylvia Plath, Peter Orr interview (1962)
    Audre Lorde, Pacifica Radio Archives and Academy of American Poets www.poets.org
    Maya Angelou, BBC News (1985)
    Jeannette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (BBC, 1990) and Face To Face (BBC, 1994)
    Marguerite Duras, Worn Out With Desire To Write (1985)
    Toni Morrison, Brief Encounters (BBC, 2001)
    Jackie Kay, Book of the Week (The Waters Company for BBC R4, 2015)
    Elena Ferrante, Lying Lives of Adults (BBC, 2020)


    Available now

    57 minutes

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

    #ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
    #SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
    #MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
    #MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
    #JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

  7. Writing Our Mothers
    Archive on 4

    ‘Mothers have such a weight of idealisation and expectation landed upon their bodies and their minds and what women writers can do is to take that apart and explore
    its underbelly,’ says feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.

    Whether worshipped or vilified, treated as lifetime confidantes or rarely trusted, the mothers we meet when we write them are re-inventions. Some may be closer to the
    truth than others. Many of them will have roots in the life experiences of the daughter-writer. Virginia Woolf, who lost her mother at the age of 13, said she was obsessed with writing her mother. Eventually she also argued that it was ‘the occupation of the woman writer to kill’ what she called ‘The Angel in the House’ – the perfect, self-sacrificing mother – who may well have been her own maternal influence.

    Drawing on interviews with Maya Angelou, we hear how for her to write her mother was to ‘write about a hurricane in its perfect power’. She describes how the influence of a mother who ‘abandoned’ her as a child forced her most urgent examinations of class, race and, importantly love. In another frank interview with Marguerite Duras from 1968, she describes writing as a search for connection with her raging and ‘mad’ mother. For Sylvia Plath, the process of writing about becoming a mother herself in the 1950s produced work of a psychic intensity rarely seen before.

    What the archive ultimately reveals is that a mother, whether present or absent, loving or cruel, might be as formative an influence on a writer’s work, as in life. ‘When I read about motherhood, I want to be shaken loose from whatever limitations I have when I think about what that means,’ says the writer Siri Hustvedt.

    With contributions from Susie Orbach, Jacqueline Rose, Kit de Waal and Siri Hustvedt, and narration from Amaka Okafor.

    Produced by Sarah Cuddon
    A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    Archive sources:
    Desert Island Discs with Arundhati Roy (2017)
    A Chance to Meet ... Edna O'Brien (1971)
    Sylvia Plath, Peter Orr interview (1962)
    Audre Lorde, Pacifica Radio Archives and Academy of American Poets www.poets.org
    Maya Angelou, BBC News (1985)
    Jeannette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (BBC, 1990) and Face To Face (BBC, 1994)
    Marguerite Duras, Worn Out With Desire To Write (1985)
    Toni Morrison, Brief Encounters (BBC, 2001)
    Jackie Kay, Book of the Week (The Waters Company for BBC R4, 2015)
    Elena Ferrante, Lying Lives of Adults (BBC, 2020)


    Available now

    57 minutes

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

    #ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
    #SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
    #MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
    #MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
    #JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

  8. Writing Our Mothers
    Archive on 4

    ‘Mothers have such a weight of idealisation and expectation landed upon their bodies and their minds and what women writers can do is to take that apart and explore
    its underbelly,’ says feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.

    Whether worshipped or vilified, treated as lifetime confidantes or rarely trusted, the mothers we meet when we write them are re-inventions. Some may be closer to the
    truth than others. Many of them will have roots in the life experiences of the daughter-writer. Virginia Woolf, who lost her mother at the age of 13, said she was obsessed with writing her mother. Eventually she also argued that it was ‘the occupation of the woman writer to kill’ what she called ‘The Angel in the House’ – the perfect, self-sacrificing mother – who may well have been her own maternal influence.

    Drawing on interviews with Maya Angelou, we hear how for her to write her mother was to ‘write about a hurricane in its perfect power’. She describes how the influence of a mother who ‘abandoned’ her as a child forced her most urgent examinations of class, race and, importantly love. In another frank interview with Marguerite Duras from 1968, she describes writing as a search for connection with her raging and ‘mad’ mother. For Sylvia Plath, the process of writing about becoming a mother herself in the 1950s produced work of a psychic intensity rarely seen before.

    What the archive ultimately reveals is that a mother, whether present or absent, loving or cruel, might be as formative an influence on a writer’s work, as in life. ‘When I read about motherhood, I want to be shaken loose from whatever limitations I have when I think about what that means,’ says the writer Siri Hustvedt.

    With contributions from Susie Orbach, Jacqueline Rose, Kit de Waal and Siri Hustvedt, and narration from Amaka Okafor.

    Produced by Sarah Cuddon
    A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    Archive sources:
    Desert Island Discs with Arundhati Roy (2017)
    A Chance to Meet ... Edna O'Brien (1971)
    Sylvia Plath, Peter Orr interview (1962)
    Audre Lorde, Pacifica Radio Archives and Academy of American Poets www.poets.org
    Maya Angelou, BBC News (1985)
    Jeannette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (BBC, 1990) and Face To Face (BBC, 1994)
    Marguerite Duras, Worn Out With Desire To Write (1985)
    Toni Morrison, Brief Encounters (BBC, 2001)
    Jackie Kay, Book of the Week (The Waters Company for BBC R4, 2015)
    Elena Ferrante, Lying Lives of Adults (BBC, 2020)


    Available now

    57 minutes

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

    #ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
    #SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
    #MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
    #MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
    #JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

  9. Writing Our Mothers
    Archive on 4

    ‘Mothers have such a weight of idealisation and expectation landed upon their bodies and their minds and what women writers can do is to take that apart and explore
    its underbelly,’ says feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.

    Whether worshipped or vilified, treated as lifetime confidantes or rarely trusted, the mothers we meet when we write them are re-inventions. Some may be closer to the
    truth than others. Many of them will have roots in the life experiences of the daughter-writer. Virginia Woolf, who lost her mother at the age of 13, said she was obsessed with writing her mother. Eventually she also argued that it was ‘the occupation of the woman writer to kill’ what she called ‘The Angel in the House’ – the perfect, self-sacrificing mother – who may well have been her own maternal influence.

    Drawing on interviews with Maya Angelou, we hear how for her to write her mother was to ‘write about a hurricane in its perfect power’. She describes how the influence of a mother who ‘abandoned’ her as a child forced her most urgent examinations of class, race and, importantly love. In another frank interview with Marguerite Duras from 1968, she describes writing as a search for connection with her raging and ‘mad’ mother. For Sylvia Plath, the process of writing about becoming a mother herself in the 1950s produced work of a psychic intensity rarely seen before.

    What the archive ultimately reveals is that a mother, whether present or absent, loving or cruel, might be as formative an influence on a writer’s work, as in life. ‘When I read about motherhood, I want to be shaken loose from whatever limitations I have when I think about what that means,’ says the writer Siri Hustvedt.

    With contributions from Susie Orbach, Jacqueline Rose, Kit de Waal and Siri Hustvedt, and narration from Amaka Okafor.

    Produced by Sarah Cuddon
    A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    Archive sources:
    Desert Island Discs with Arundhati Roy (2017)
    A Chance to Meet ... Edna O'Brien (1971)
    Sylvia Plath, Peter Orr interview (1962)
    Audre Lorde, Pacifica Radio Archives and Academy of American Poets www.poets.org
    Maya Angelou, BBC News (1985)
    Jeannette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (BBC, 1990) and Face To Face (BBC, 1994)
    Marguerite Duras, Worn Out With Desire To Write (1985)
    Toni Morrison, Brief Encounters (BBC, 2001)
    Jackie Kay, Book of the Week (The Waters Company for BBC R4, 2015)
    Elena Ferrante, Lying Lives of Adults (BBC, 2020)


    Available now

    57 minutes

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

    #ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
    #SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
    #MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
    #MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
    #JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

  10. Writing Our Mothers
    Archive on 4

    ‘Mothers have such a weight of idealisation and expectation landed upon their bodies and their minds and what women writers can do is to take that apart and explore
    its underbelly,’ says feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.

    Whether worshipped or vilified, treated as lifetime confidantes or rarely trusted, the mothers we meet when we write them are re-inventions. Some may be closer to the
    truth than others. Many of them will have roots in the life experiences of the daughter-writer. Virginia Woolf, who lost her mother at the age of 13, said she was obsessed with writing her mother. Eventually she also argued that it was ‘the occupation of the woman writer to kill’ what she called ‘The Angel in the House’ – the perfect, self-sacrificing mother – who may well have been her own maternal influence.

    Drawing on interviews with Maya Angelou, we hear how for her to write her mother was to ‘write about a hurricane in its perfect power’. She describes how the influence of a mother who ‘abandoned’ her as a child forced her most urgent examinations of class, race and, importantly love. In another frank interview with Marguerite Duras from 1968, she describes writing as a search for connection with her raging and ‘mad’ mother. For Sylvia Plath, the process of writing about becoming a mother herself in the 1950s produced work of a psychic intensity rarely seen before.

    What the archive ultimately reveals is that a mother, whether present or absent, loving or cruel, might be as formative an influence on a writer’s work, as in life. ‘When I read about motherhood, I want to be shaken loose from whatever limitations I have when I think about what that means,’ says the writer Siri Hustvedt.

    With contributions from Susie Orbach, Jacqueline Rose, Kit de Waal and Siri Hustvedt, and narration from Amaka Okafor.

    Produced by Sarah Cuddon
    A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    Archive sources:
    Desert Island Discs with Arundhati Roy (2017)
    A Chance to Meet ... Edna O'Brien (1971)
    Sylvia Plath, Peter Orr interview (1962)
    Audre Lorde, Pacifica Radio Archives and Academy of American Poets www.poets.org
    Maya Angelou, BBC News (1985)
    Jeannette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (BBC, 1990) and Face To Face (BBC, 1994)
    Marguerite Duras, Worn Out With Desire To Write (1985)
    Toni Morrison, Brief Encounters (BBC, 2001)
    Jackie Kay, Book of the Week (The Waters Company for BBC R4, 2015)
    Elena Ferrante, Lying Lives of Adults (BBC, 2020)


    Available now

    57 minutes

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

    #ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
    #SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
    #MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
    #MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
    #JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

  11. Exploring the Jackie Kay Archive
    28 May, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, booking required.

    Explore the personal archive of Jackie Kay, Scotland's former Makar and beloved writer. Curator Dan Sheehy will share his favourite discoveries from cataloguing her lifetime of work.

    nls.uk/whats-on/jackie-kay-arc

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #JackieKay #womenwriters #archives

  12. Exploring the Jackie Kay Archive
    28 May, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, booking required.

    Explore the personal archive of Jackie Kay, Scotland's former Makar and beloved writer. Curator Dan Sheehy will share his favourite discoveries from cataloguing her lifetime of work.

    nls.uk/whats-on/jackie-kay-arc

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #JackieKay #womenwriters #archives

  13. Exploring the Jackie Kay Archive
    28 May, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, booking required.

    Explore the personal archive of Jackie Kay, Scotland's former Makar and beloved writer. Curator Dan Sheehy will share his favourite discoveries from cataloguing her lifetime of work.

    nls.uk/whats-on/jackie-kay-arc

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #JackieKay #womenwriters #archives

  14. Exploring the Jackie Kay Archive
    28 May, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, booking required.

    Explore the personal archive of Jackie Kay, Scotland's former Makar and beloved writer. Curator Dan Sheehy will share his favourite discoveries from cataloguing her lifetime of work.

    nls.uk/whats-on/jackie-kay-arc

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #JackieKay #womenwriters #archives

  15. Exploring the Jackie Kay Archive
    28 May, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, booking required.

    Explore the personal archive of Jackie Kay, Scotland's former Makar and beloved writer. Curator Dan Sheehy will share his favourite discoveries from cataloguing her lifetime of work.

    nls.uk/whats-on/jackie-kay-arc

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #JackieKay #womenwriters #archives

  16. Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
    if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
    ahint and afore whit will happen tae us…

    —Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
    published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

    panmacmillan.com/authors/jacki

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #Valentine #poem #poetry #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #lovepoem #lovepoetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #womenwriters #JackieKay

  17. Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
    if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
    ahint and afore whit will happen tae us…

    —Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
    published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

    panmacmillan.com/authors/jacki

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #Valentine #poem #poetry #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #lovepoem #lovepoetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #womenwriters #JackieKay

  18. Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
    if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
    ahint and afore whit will happen tae us…

    —Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
    published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

    panmacmillan.com/authors/jacki

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #Valentine #poem #poetry #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #lovepoem #lovepoetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #womenwriters #JackieKay

  19. Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
    if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
    ahint and afore whit will happen tae us…

    —Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
    published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

    panmacmillan.com/authors/jacki

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #Valentine #poem #poetry #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #lovepoem #lovepoetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #womenwriters #JackieKay

  20. Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
    if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
    ahint and afore whit will happen tae us…

    —Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
    published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

    panmacmillan.com/authors/jacki

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #Valentine #poem #poetry #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #lovepoem #lovepoetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #womenwriters #JackieKay

  21. You might forget the exact sound of her voice
    or how her face looked when sleeping.
    You might forget the sound of her quiet weeping
    curled into the shape of a half moon…

    —Jackie Kay, “Darling”
    published in DARLING (Bloodaxe, 2007)

    bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #grief #death

  22. You might forget the exact sound of her voice
    or how her face looked when sleeping.
    You might forget the sound of her quiet weeping
    curled into the shape of a half moon…

    —Jackie Kay, “Darling”
    published in DARLING (Bloodaxe, 2007)

    bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #grief #death

  23. You might forget the exact sound of her voice
    or how her face looked when sleeping.
    You might forget the sound of her quiet weeping
    curled into the shape of a half moon…

    —Jackie Kay, “Darling”
    published in DARLING (Bloodaxe, 2007)

    bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #grief #death

  24. You might forget the exact sound of her voice
    or how her face looked when sleeping.
    You might forget the sound of her quiet weeping
    curled into the shape of a half moon…

    —Jackie Kay, “Darling”
    published in DARLING (Bloodaxe, 2007)

    bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #grief #death

  25. You might forget the exact sound of her voice
    or how her face looked when sleeping.
    You might forget the sound of her quiet weeping
    curled into the shape of a half moon…

    —Jackie Kay, “Darling”
    published in DARLING (Bloodaxe, 2007)

    bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #grief #death

  26. Jackie Kay in "Monster: la storia di Ed Gein" (Ep. 1x02, 20252) #JackieKay bit.ly/3J7P6aZ

  27. My seventy-seven-year-old father
    put his reading glasses on
    to help my mother do the buttons
    on the back of her dress…

    —Jackie Kay, “George Square”
    published in LIFE MASK (Bloodaxe, 2005)

    Listen to Jackie Kay read the poem on the Poetry Archive:

    poetryarchive.org/poem/george-

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

  28. My seventy-seven-year-old father
    put his reading glasses on
    to help my mother do the buttons
    on the back of her dress…

    —Jackie Kay, “George Square”
    published in LIFE MASK (Bloodaxe, 2005)

    Listen to Jackie Kay read the poem on the Poetry Archive:

    poetryarchive.org/poem/george-

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

  29. My seventy-seven-year-old father
    put his reading glasses on
    to help my mother do the buttons
    on the back of her dress…

    —Jackie Kay, “George Square”
    published in LIFE MASK (Bloodaxe, 2005)

    Listen to Jackie Kay read the poem on the Poetry Archive:

    poetryarchive.org/poem/george-

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

  30. My seventy-seven-year-old father
    put his reading glasses on
    to help my mother do the buttons
    on the back of her dress…

    —Jackie Kay, “George Square”
    published in LIFE MASK (Bloodaxe, 2005)

    Listen to Jackie Kay read the poem on the Poetry Archive:

    poetryarchive.org/poem/george-

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

  31. My seventy-seven-year-old father
    put his reading glasses on
    to help my mother do the buttons
    on the back of her dress…

    —Jackie Kay, “George Square”
    published in LIFE MASK (Bloodaxe, 2005)

    Listen to Jackie Kay read the poem on the Poetry Archive:

    poetryarchive.org/poem/george-

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

  32. On BBC Sounds: Jackie Kay talks to John Wilson about her childhood in Glasgow as the mixed-race, adopted daughter of a loving couple.

    Jackie first introduction to performance & theatre were the parties her parents hosted to raise money for the Communist Party.

    Growing up in Glasgow in the 60s & 70s, Jackie had very few Black role models & took inspiration from the works of Audre Lorde & Angela Davis.

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jttv

    #Scottish #literature #identity #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

  33. On BBC Sounds: Jackie Kay talks to John Wilson about her childhood in Glasgow as the mixed-race, adopted daughter of a loving couple.

    Jackie first introduction to performance & theatre were the parties her parents hosted to raise money for the Communist Party.

    Growing up in Glasgow in the 60s & 70s, Jackie had very few Black role models & took inspiration from the works of Audre Lorde & Angela Davis.

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jttv

    #Scottish #literature #identity #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

  34. On BBC Sounds: Jackie Kay talks to John Wilson about her childhood in Glasgow as the mixed-race, adopted daughter of a loving couple.

    Jackie first introduction to performance & theatre were the parties her parents hosted to raise money for the Communist Party.

    Growing up in Glasgow in the 60s & 70s, Jackie had very few Black role models & took inspiration from the works of Audre Lorde & Angela Davis.

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jttv

    #Scottish #literature #identity #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

  35. On BBC Sounds: Jackie Kay talks to John Wilson about her childhood in Glasgow as the mixed-race, adopted daughter of a loving couple.

    Jackie first introduction to performance & theatre were the parties her parents hosted to raise money for the Communist Party.

    Growing up in Glasgow in the 60s & 70s, Jackie had very few Black role models & took inspiration from the works of Audre Lorde & Angela Davis.

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jttv

    #Scottish #literature #identity #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

  36. On BBC Sounds: Jackie Kay talks to John Wilson about her childhood in Glasgow as the mixed-race, adopted daughter of a loving couple.

    Jackie first introduction to performance & theatre were the parties her parents hosted to raise money for the Communist Party.

    Growing up in Glasgow in the 60s & 70s, Jackie had very few Black role models & took inspiration from the works of Audre Lorde & Angela Davis.

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jttv

    #Scottish #literature #identity #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

  37. Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
    if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
    ahint and afore whit will happen tae us:
    blind in the present, eyes open to the furore…

    —Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
    published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

    A poem for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

    panmacmillan.com/authors/jacki

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #love #lovepoem #Pride #PrideMonth #JackieKay

  38. Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
    if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
    ahint and afore whit will happen tae us:
    blind in the present, eyes open to the furore…

    —Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
    published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

    A poem for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

    panmacmillan.com/authors/jacki

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #love #lovepoem #Pride #PrideMonth #JackieKay

  39. Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
    if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
    ahint and afore whit will happen tae us:
    blind in the present, eyes open to the furore…

    —Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
    published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

    A poem for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

    panmacmillan.com/authors/jacki

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #love #lovepoem #Pride #PrideMonth #JackieKay

  40. Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
    if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
    ahint and afore whit will happen tae us:
    blind in the present, eyes open to the furore…

    —Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
    published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

    A poem for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

    panmacmillan.com/authors/jacki

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #love #lovepoem #Pride #PrideMonth #JackieKay

  41. Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
    if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
    ahint and afore whit will happen tae us:
    blind in the present, eyes open to the furore…

    —Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
    published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

    A poem for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

    panmacmillan.com/authors/jacki

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #love #lovepoem #Pride #PrideMonth #JackieKay

  42. “It is the foreigner within that is interesting”: Imaginations of Scottish Multicultural Identity in Jackie Kay’s Memoir RED DUST ROAD
    29 April, free online

    Dr Angelica Michelis will focus on Jackie Kay’s memoir RED DUST ROAD and the ways in which it engages with questions of multiracial/multicultural narratives of Scottishness.

    @litstudies

    Link: t.co/dqFyZAFYf3

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #JackieKay #identity #multiracial #multicultural #gender #sexuality #ethnicity

  43. “It is the foreigner within that is interesting”: Imaginations of Scottish Multicultural Identity in Jackie Kay’s Memoir RED DUST ROAD
    29 April, free online

    Dr Angelica Michelis will focus on Jackie Kay’s memoir RED DUST ROAD and the ways in which it engages with questions of multiracial/multicultural narratives of Scottishness.

    @litstudies

    Link: t.co/dqFyZAFYf3

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #JackieKay #identity #multiracial #multicultural #gender #sexuality #ethnicity

  44. “It is the foreigner within that is interesting”: Imaginations of Scottish Multicultural Identity in Jackie Kay’s Memoir RED DUST ROAD
    29 April, free online

    Dr Angelica Michelis will focus on Jackie Kay’s memoir RED DUST ROAD and the ways in which it engages with questions of multiracial/multicultural narratives of Scottishness.

    @litstudies

    Link: t.co/dqFyZAFYf3

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #JackieKay #identity #multiracial #multicultural #gender #sexuality #ethnicity

  45. “It is the foreigner within that is interesting”: Imaginations of Scottish Multicultural Identity in Jackie Kay’s Memoir RED DUST ROAD
    29 April, free online

    Dr Angelica Michelis will focus on Jackie Kay’s memoir RED DUST ROAD and the ways in which it engages with questions of multiracial/multicultural narratives of Scottishness.

    @litstudies

    Link: t.co/dqFyZAFYf3

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #JackieKay #identity #multiracial #multicultural #gender #sexuality #ethnicity