Britain fought WWII with the support of millions of people from Africa, the Caribbean and India, but the voices of Black women are seldom heard. During the war, these contributions were demanded and celebrated, but easily forgotten with a return to racial colonial hierarchies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drawing on the lived and imagined experience of Black women and girls, directly involved or influenced by the war as subjects of the British and French colonies, this project will create a live theatrical performance followed by a discussion about how such hidden histories influence our current social realities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It will explore themes of selection and rejection, belonging, displacement and racism as \u2018identity theft\u2019. In so doing, it will seek to reveal the subtle and overt impacts of the shifts in narrative from \u2018us\u2019 to \u2018them\u2019 and ask, where do we go from here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48,"parent":0,"template":"","events_category":[],"class_list":["post-46","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n