This Sh*t Is For Us: Part 1
In August 2020, Fringe of Colour hosted two live round-table conversations as part of a series titled This Sh*t Is For Us. These talks featured creators and participants of community-oriented spaces that have radical approaches to expression, care and solidarity at their core. Both events were recorded and have BSL interpretation.
This is the first part of that conversation, featuring Adebusola Ramsay, Andrés N. Ordorica, Jherane Patmore and Jess Brough.
Adebusola Ramsay is a member of Yon Afro - a collective of Black women and non-binary people based in Scotland focused on centring their experience of blackness through collective activism and collaboration with the purpose to create a sense of belonging. Adebusola is an abstract artist, whose practice has developed as a therapeutic endeavour over the last 20 years.
Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer and educator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Some of his published work includes We Were Always Here (404 ink), The Colour of Madness (Skiddaw Books), and Gutter Magazine. Additionally, he serves as the Community Development & Events Manager for The Scottish BAME Writers Network.
Jherane Patmore is a Jamaican reader and activist, best known for founding Rebel Women Lit, a three-year-old, queer, feminist and Jamaican literary space. Rebel Women Lit is an open book club with meetings online and across three cities designed to be a space for women, genderqueer, and non-binary people to feel welcome. The book club has recently created an online bookstore, library, podcast and Youtube channel which RWL hopes to use to continue exploring feminist ideas through literature, storytelling and sisterhood.
Jess Brough is the founder of Fringe of Colour, a multi-award-winning promotional platform and support network for Black and Brown people/People of Colour at arts festivals.
Fringe of Colour's new online arts festival Fringe of Colour Films launched on 1st August 2020 and hosted over 50 films made by Black and Brown people/People of Colour throughout the month.
The platform streamed work exclusively commissioned by Fringe of Colour, as well as co-commissions with partnering organisations, and films that had been submitted to the festival by independent artists and performers (including work by Selina Thompson, Hannah Lavery, Sean Wai Keung, Arinzé Kene and Nish Kumar).
This conversation includes live BSL interpretation and closed captions.
The festival was hosted at fringeofcolour.co.uk.
