Poetry by Alyson Malach
They say, “I don’t see colour,” with kindness in their tone,But words can hide meanings we’ve never fully known.To not see the colour is to not see the fight,The stories, the struggles, the strength and the light. Race is an identity, lived every day,Shaped by culture and history along the way.When colour is blurred and […]
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(A lived experience of the hostile environment) In a land that whispers welcome, yet builds fences in its mind,Where a neighbour becomes a warden, and compassion grows unkindLives a quiet, constant tension, shaped by laws that hide their aim,For the “race-blind” written letter masks a deeper, older blame. They talk of illegal bodies, as though
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When we talk about Black history, education often starts in the wrong place with enslavement, oppression, or the Windrush Generation, as though Black lives only entered British consciousness in the 20th century. But long before the colonies, plantations or transatlantic trade, Black people lived, worked, created, contributed and held authority in Britain. One of the
When I speak of racism,some call it a card I’m playing,as if my lived experiencewere a trick,a tactic,a game for winning points. But this is not a deck I chose.These stories are cut from skin and memory,from rooms where jokes landed like blows,from meetings where my voice was swallowed whole,from corridors where prejudice walked beside
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Children as young as four are being sent home from school for racist behaviour, a statistic that should alarm us all. Recent Department for Education figures show suspensions for racist behaviour have more than doubled since 2021, with incidents rising from 7,403 to over 15,000 last year. Disturbingly, some of these involve Reception-aged pupils who
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In memory of Leonard Moore and the Windrush Generation They came not as strangers, but as builders of dreams,Carried by faith across oceans and streams.From sunlit isles to grey British skies,They arrived with hope burning deep in their eyes. The call was clear – come help rebuild.To heal the broken, to get the buses filled.To
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Here’s a powerful and compassionate blog post that honours the trans community and concludes with a moving original poem in response to the UK Supreme Court’s ruling: Yesterday, the UK Supreme Court overturned decades of progress by ruling that the legal definition of “woman” must be based on biological sex, effectively undoing the dignity and
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In every street, in every hall,Across the globe, in businesses tall,There rings a truth both bold and brightEquality is a human right. Not a trend, nor passing phase,But justice lit in lasting blaze.To tackle hate, we must beginBy naming bias from within. No matter colour, age or creed,Our workplaces have urgent needFor hearts that welcome,
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We hope you’re safe, in calm or storm, In troubled times, when worries swarm. Across the UK, there’s unrest, These times of trouble, put to test. Protests rise, some turn to riot, Challenges that break the quiet. In these hard days, we must unite, In peace and love, we find our light. Scenes of violence,
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Nearly 6 decades ago, the railway worker applied for a promotion that would see him move from Marylebone to Euston Station in 1966. But, astonishingly, at the time there was an informal ban on Black workers holding railway jobs that would see them come into contact with the public, and he was turned down. However,
