The Organising Poster
What can movement archives teach us about creative production and AI? Nancy Salem traces three political archives to ask: who owns the means to produce knowledge and what is it for?
Joy / Resistance
In Joy/Resistance, Corrd centres Black joy as an emancipatory force and everyday resistance.
Mind the Gap: Heritage Work in a Fractured Present
JC Niala and Johanna Zetterström-Sharp reflect on what happens when institutions that have traditionally done memory work on behalf of society find themselves facing a society that is itself fractured through loss.
Who does the work?
Decolonising archives is often unpaid labour led by diasporic and indigenous memory workers. Erinma Ochu, Tosin Olufon, Nadine Aranki and Abira Hussein reflect on care, refusal, solidarity and community-held alternatives.
Heritage and Ephemerality: The Politics of Black Cultural Memory
Inspired by Stuart Hall’s work, Dr. Lisa Amanda Palmer invites readers to think about questions of ephemerality and heritage.
Family Photographs from the Vietnamese Diaspora Set In Motion
Family photographs from the Vietnamese diaspora become living records of memory and migration. Carô Gervay invites us to witness how images move across generations, repaired, reimagined, and set in motion.
Mother Tongue – Language, Memory and Heritage
Dr. Tola Dabiri traces the genesis of this idea to the recurring discussions of mothers, their languages, and the inheritance of stories, at the April 2025 #UKCommunityofPractice convening. Since then, Dabiri has researched global changes in language diversity, examples of language loss, preservation, and safeguarding, and educational and legislative interventions.
Tapestry of Black Britons: Communities & Digital Space
The richness of British history is incomplete without paying tribute to the profound contributions of people of African descent.
Tapestry of Black Britons embodies this statement. Through our #UKCommunityofPractice convenings, founder Paula Ogun Hector was enabled to decolonise the tapestry co-creative process.
BLACK GEOGRAPHIES OF KINGS HILL, DOMINICA: A PHOTO-ESSAY
Home, heritage, and belonging – these are the threads that weave through this work. Consisting of 27,000 words of fieldnotes, analogue photographs, montage film clips, and soundscapes, “Black Geographies of Kings Hill, Dominica” is a record of the photographer’s first trip to Dominica.
Mother, Memory, History.
Through photography, poetry, and generational memory, Marcia Michael explores how maternal stories carry suppressed histories into the light and re-imagines archives as reclamation, where the Black matrilineal voice becomes both methodology and testimony.