INSPIRATION
The long-standing loves of my life are books and films. Here some of the things that I have read/seen and loved:
Books: Fiction
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
Mr. Loverman and Girl Woman Other by Bernadine Evaristo
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
The Sea Cloak by Nayrouz Qarmout
Outlines by Rachel Cusk
Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The Bricks That Built The Houses by Kate Tempest
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Go Tell It From The Mountain by James Baldwin
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Books: Non-Fiction/Biography
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers Rights by Juno Mac and Molly Smith
Educated by Tara Westhover
Afropean by Johny Pitts
Diane Aboott: The Authorised Biography by Samara Linton and Robin Bunce
Queer Intentions by Amelia Abraham
Stasiland by Anna Funder
The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Becoming by Michelle Obama
What Happened by Hilary Clinton
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
Hunger by Roxane Gay
The Good Immigrant: Collection of Essays edited by Nikesh Shukla
Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch
In Our Own Words: Refugee Women in Germany Tell Their Stories (International Women's Space)
Character Breakdown by Zawe Ashton
Mother Country by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
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Films
A Litany for Survival: Audre Lorde (New York/Berlin)
Systeme K (Kinshasa)
Call Me By Your Name (Italy)
Rafiki (Kenya)
Elisa y Marcela (Spain)
Jibril (Berlin)
I Am Not A Witch (Zambia)
8 Borders, 8 Days (Syria-Berlin)
The Florida Project (USA)
The Last Black Man of San Francisco (USA)
Little Women (USA)