#Vanessa Kisuule

[carminamasoliver]

Freelance Reflections #72

[branmer]

copying that entire thread into my journal because i want to still be able to read it when twitter finally collapses haha

[nicollekidman]

cried a little over this thread last night 

[petervc88]

Cappelle Calling - 4 september 2023

De uitzending viel op de verjaardag van mijn vriendin Suzan. Daarom liet ik haar de volledige playlist voor deze uitzending bepalen en samenstellen.

Terugluisteren kan hier.

Dit was de playlist:

Uur 1:

Queen - You're My Best Friend (1975) Son Mieux - Tell Me More (2023) Mega - Chariot (2018) Peter Gabriel - The Boy In The Bubble (2011) (DisCovered) Villagers - The First Day (2022) Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)  (1999) Bouwer Bosch - Hopelik (2016) alt-J - U&ME (2021) Black Pumas - Colors (2019) Mumford & Sons & Birdy - Learn Me Right (2012)(Filmplaat - uit 'Brave') David Gray - Sail Away (1998) Lucky Fonz III - Bootje (2022) Tongue Fu feat. Vanessa Kisuule - Before We Are Epitaph (2020)

Uur 2:

Zach Bryan feat. The Lumineers - Spotless (2023) The Killers & Dawes - Christmas In L.A. (2016) Paul Simon - The Boy In The Bubble (1986) (DisCovered) Tom Rosenthal - Beautiful Things We Saw On April 4 (2023) Hooverphonic - Amalfi (2013) Paul McCartney - Calico Skies (1997) Noah and the Whale - Love of an Orchestra (2009) Andra Day - Rise Up (2015) Bruce Springsteen - When You Need Me (1987) Paolo Nutini - Shine A Light (2022) Michael Kiwanuka - Beautiful Life (2021) Banners - Got It In You (2019) Tracy Chapman - Talkin' Bout A Revolution (1988)

Cappelle Calling is iedere maandagavond van 20:00 t/m 22:00 te horen op Radio 90FM. Iedere woensdagmiddag wordt de uitzending herhaald van 18:00 tot 20:00. Suggesties voor DisCovered of De Filmplaat zijn welkom via de Facebookpagina van het programma of via cappellecalling@gmail.com.

[28dayslater]

oh what i literally know Vanessa Kisuule irl (or did know her a bit in the past). we did a handful of poetry events together in the early 2010s. we shared a taxi once and she showed me around London. she's a really fantastic writer and an even better person, sad we lost touch and went separate ways artistically and otherwise (i don't do poems or readings anymore). alex's page is really the last place i would have anticipated seeing her name pop up again though, life is truly fucking bizarre

That’s crazy bc I don’t even follow her on twitter I just saw the thread by chance bc someone rt’d it. Maybe its a sign you should reconnect

[adambeyoncelowe]

The World Reimagined

I'm pleased to announce the publication of The World Reimagined! I edited this anthology for The World Reimagined project, and it features a stellar line up, including Anthony Joseph, Belinda Zhawi, Benjamin Zephaniah, Cheryl Martin, Connor Allen, Curmiah Lisette, Dorothea Smartt, Ella Otomewo, Eric Ngalle Charles, Henry Stone, John Agard, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Kadija Sesay, Keisha Thompson, Khadijah Ibrahiim, Malika Booker, Marvin Thompson, Mike Garry, Nick Makoha, Otis Mensah, Poetra Asantewa, Raymond Antrobus, Sea Sharp, Shara McCallum, Shirley May, Shivanee Ramlochan, Tanya Shirley, Vanessa Kisuule and Yomi Sode.

Free copies are going to schools and anyone else can buy a copy for £15.

Buy your copy here: https://theworldreimagined.myshopify.com/products/the-world-reimagined-a-poetic-journey-of-discovery

[catsbooksandbees]

Book 15 of 2022!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Black Joy by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, Timi Sotire, Diane Abbott, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Fopé Ajanaku, Athian Akec, Travis Alabanza, Hanniyah Angus, Rukiat Ashawe, Bukky Bakray, Richie Brave, Munya Chawawa, Ruby Fatimilehin, Theophina Gabriel, Lauryn Green, Ife Grillo, Issac James, Chanté Josesph, Vanessa Kisuule, Henrie Kwushue, Tobi Kyeremateng, Mikai McDermott, Jason Okundaye, Tope Olufemi, Melz Owusu, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Mayowa Quadri, Lavinya Stennett, and Sophia Tassew

Love, literature, friendship, music, carnival, travel, dance, work, nature, food - black joy can be found in so many places.

Content Warnings: mental illness, suicide attempts

What Did I Think?

This is such a beautiful collection of essays from a variety of different Black people with a variety of different passions. Each writer wrote about how their passion interacts with their identities and how it gives them happiness and some even wrote about how it helped them overcome personal struggles in their life. I just loved all the, well, joy in the pages of this. It was also lovely to hear more from British Black voices. A kind of book we need more of.

Prompts

Popsugar - “A Book About Found Family”

52 Book Club Challenge - “Chapters Have Titles”

[litafficionado]

“It’s like that common adage says – those who don’t take note of the past are doomed to repeat it. It’s not about self-flagellation or guilt. I agree that neither of those are healthy nor helpful. But much like Germany after the Second World War and South Africa after apartheid, there needs to be a meaningful process of reckoning and reconciliation that aims to alleviate the emotional and financial wounds. Neither Germany nor South Africa went about this perfectly, but there is a lot of healing and humility in the simple acknowledgement of historical trauma. It is not behind us. It is not in the past. The repercussions of slavery and colonialism affect people’s livelihoods in myriad ways. As is being more broadly acknowledged, the British taxpayer was shelling out money up until 2015 for the ‘loss’ faced by slave traders after abolition passed. That’s only five years ago. Former colonies still suffer as a direct result of the pillaging of their resources and indigenous cultures. The vicious cycle of aid and ‘Third World Debt’ is borne of the ahistorical notion that Western countries are saving these countries out of the goodness of their hearts when they are the very nations who underdeveloped them. There is no hope of moving on or meaningfully addressing our current political landscape unless we take stock of what has been. It will make us more compassionate and nuanced in our thinking and shed this lazy narrative of victors and victims. This feels well overdue and I can only hope that we make some headway in the coming years, even as the initial fanfare dies down.” -Vanessa Kisuule, in a conversation with Madhu Krishnan

[books-in-media]

Georgie Henley, (Instagram Stories, N/A)

—A Recipe for Sorcery, Vanessa Kisuule, (2017)

[nextwavefutures]

Sixes and Sevens #42

Back after a break, Sixes and Sevens #42. In this collection: rewriting the New York Times, COVID-19’s black elephants, how London was colonised by the rich, Kraftwerk were bigger than the Beatles, Edward Colston was hollow.

Sixes and Sevens is back after a break. A collection of the contextual, the cultural, and other things that catch my eye.

Image by Alexandra Bell

One of the best things I read on Black Lives Matter was written by a 20-year military officer. In the conservative National Review. He knew what he needed to tell them, and he knew he’d have to build the argument slowly.

Rewriting the New York…

[carminamasoliver]

Writing about nature with Vanessa Kisuule #RedSkySessions #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poetsofinstagram #poetsandwriters #amwriting #poem #poems #poetryofinstagram #poetrycommunityofig #poetrycommunityofinstagram #poetrycommunityofinsta #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #poetsofinsta #womanpoet #womxnpoet #womanwriter #womxnwriter #draft #poemdraft #nature #naturewriting #meercats #meercat #naturepoetry #findingyourvoice #voice #yourvoice #natutepoems (at The Internet) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjK8inks0dp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dreamgirlarchive]

Maybe she thought if she kissed enough boys, they'd feel her attempts to pass her heart to them like an ecstasy pill, on the glistening carriage of her tongue.

-Vanessa Kisuule, ‘One Minute’

[bxdcubes]

2021 in books

Stack of shame, here I come. As always, books read in English are highlighted by the EN at the end. Otherwise I read in Polish.

Firefall [Blindsight/Echopraxia] - Peter Watts

Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer - EN

Alice - Christina Henry

Secret Societies and Crazy Cults - Jonathan J. Moore

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke 

Piętno - Przemysław Piotrowski

Aftershocks - Marko Kloos “

Planetside - Michael Mammay 

Ballistic - Marko Kloos

Spaceside - Michael Mammay 

This is how you lose the time war - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone - EN

Why sailors can't swim and other marvelous maritime curiosities - Nic Compton

Alice isn’t Dead - Joseph Fink - EN

U stóp słowiańskiego parnasu. Bogowie i gusła - Leonard J. Pełka

Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

O hultajach, wiedźmach i wszetecznicach. Szkice z obyczajów XVIII i XVIII wieku - Bohdan Baranowski

Siege and Storm - Leigh Bardugo

Vov : hunden i eventyr, myter og folketro fra hele verden - Tor Åge Bringsværd

Russian Black Magic: The Beliefs and Practices of Heretics and Blasphemers - Natasha Helvin

The Labours of Hercules - Agatha Christie 

Cud, Miód, Malina - Aneta Jadowska

Tma - Jozef Karika

Malleus Maleficarum - Heinrich Krammer, Jacob Sprenger

The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie

Peril at End House - Agatha Christie

Midwinter Murder - Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Five Little Pigs - Agatha Christie

Murder in Mesopotamia - Agatha Christie

Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects - Amy Stewart

W górach przeklętych. Wampiry Alp, Rudaw, Sudetów, Karpat i Bałkanów - Bartłomiej Grzegorz Sala

Ted Bundy. The Stranger Beside Me - Ann Rule

The Red Queen - Christina Henry

Curtain - Agatha Christie

Evil under the Sun - Agatha Christie

Nawia. Szamanki, szeptuchy, demony - Opracowanie zbiorowe: Rafał Dębski, Marta Krajewska, Katarzyna Berenika Miszczuk, Marcin Mortka, Marcin Podlewski, Martyna Raduchowska, Jagna Rolska, Anna Szumacher

The A.B.C. Murders - Agatha Christie

Cyberpunk Girls  - Anthology

Ku Gwiazdom - Anthology

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding - Agatha Christie

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic - Leigh Bardugo

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas - Agatha Christie

shine your icy crown - Amanda Lovelace - EN

The Lives of Saints - Leigh Bardugo

Bestariusz Japoński - Witold Vargass

The Book of Bad Betties - edited by Vanessa Kisuule & Anja Konig - EN

Opia Issue 1 Nostalgia - edited by Olga Białasik - EN  

[newsandmediarepublic]

Spoken word gets spectacular in Exeter: A Spork! Sporktacular

Spoken word gets spectacular in Exeter: A Spork! Sporktacular

Spork!, the monthly spoken word event in Exeter, is smashing it for spring with some of the biggest, most renown names in the South West spoken word circuit descending on the city for A Spork! Sporktacular.

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