#maudsulter — Public Fediverse posts

The Maud Sulter Annual Lecture
31 October, Glasgow School of Art – free

Pratibha Parmar met Maud Sulter in the mid 1980’s when many outside the mainstream arts establishment were committed to growing a vibrant Black women’s arts movement. Parmar will talk about these foundational moments in dialogue with Sulter’s work & their reverberations today.

https://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/the-maud-sulter-annual-lecture-with-pratibha-palmar/

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Service to Empire
a play by Maud Sulter

National Galleries Scotland present the first abridged rehearsed reading from Maud Sulter’s play SERVICE TO EMPIRE. Directed & abridged by Adura Onashile & co-curated with Mother Tongue. The reading is followed by a Q&A

9/9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83luy9rmu38

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“I Name Myself Zami”
Maud Sulter’s Queer Form
Susannah Thompson, Scottish Literary Review 16/1, 2024

Available free on Open Access via Project MUSE

8/9

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930915

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Maud Sulter: Passion
Her Work and Legacy

This website showcases her legacy, featuring exhibitions, events & publications to the present. It is curated & maintained on behalf of the Estate of Maud Sulter.

7/9

https://maudsulterpassion.wordpress.com

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Being written out of history can happen to you… No one will document our future but ourselves.
—Maud Sulter, “Call and Response” (1988)

Tomiwa Folorunso & Natasha Thembiso Ruwona draw on Maud Sulter’s essay “Call and Response” to discuss the making of their 2022 film “maud”

6/9

https://www.greatergovanhill.com/latest/in-response

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“Sulter’s creative work encourages us to think of the Scottish African field as offering a fresh perspective on writing, identity and community.”

Maud Sulter: Passion, by Deborah Cherry, includes Sulter’s images & poetry—reviewed here by Esraa Husein

5/9

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/maud-sulter-passion-by-deborah-cherry/

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As a black woman
the bearing of my child
is a political act…

—Maud Sulter, “As a Black Woman”
Published in As a Blackwoman: Poems 1982–1985 (Akira Press, 1985)

4/9

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Maud Sulter was born in Glasgow, of Scots & Ghanaian descent: her poem “Circa 1930” argues that these two cultures “are not as disparate as they might / at first seem. Clan-based societies / With long memories and global diasporas.”

3/9

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/maud-sulter/

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☝️📷: self-portrait of Maud Sulter as Jeanne Duval, the mistress of Charles Baudelaire, representing Calliope. From “Zabat”, a series of portraits of creative black women by Sulter, showing each woman as one of the 9 Muses. The series is held by the V&A

2/9

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O134377/calliope-photograph-sulter-maud/

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On leaving
you playfully punched
my left
shoulder.

The sensation
remains

But your
voice fades

The sensation
remains
But your
image fades

I
short of breath
tremble

I think
you’ve
cracked
a
rib.

—“Gone but Not Forgotten”, by Maud Sulter (1960–2008)
born #OTD, 19 Sep – a 🎂 🧵

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