Some of my more political writing and art...
8 Jan 2021 14 minute read 5 comments (S)llew la Wulf
It's funny, yesterday I spoke to 2 people on the phone; one a family member (Black) another à friend (white). After the standard and general greetings, and the "how are you coping? " lockdown check ins, both conversations moved on, to more meaty st...
30 Dec 2020 10 minute read 9 comments (S)llew la Wulf
I've just finished watching the Education episode of Steve McQueen's Small Axe and like many of them, it's had me in tears, floods of them (please do listen to Bob Marley's Small Axe in the above video as you read). I did OK at school really, com...
27 Dec 2020 19 minute read 2 comments (S)llew la Wulf
I wrote the following poem and created the piece of word art to go with it in the aftermath of being raped, for the second time in my life, about 5.5 years ago. It was a revenge fantasy in some ways but was also very much tied up into my personal...
24 Dec 2020 7 minute read 4 comments (S)llew la Wulf
Hello, am back from, not quite the dead but this last week or so has been painful, arduous and I've just been slightly out of it on morphine. I am now on day 8 of healing after my knee surgery and feel like I'm turning a corner, just in time, i...
11 Dec 2020 1 minute read 3 comments (S)llew la Wulf
Reflecting on my last post, and the idea that perhaps poetry, art, creative output is more honest than the politicised nature of History text books and references, I think about some of my own, very political poetry. Not simply political but person...
11 Dec 2020 3 minute read 8 comments (S)llew la Wulf
In one of my classes the other day, as a starter, I put the above quote on the board and asked them to figure out what it meant and how far they agreed. Some interesting discussion. One young man in particular decided that it was a ridiculous idea b...
10 Dec 2020 11 minute read 8 comments (S)llew la Wulf
Years ago, when myself and father of my youngest were still together, I started thinking about the idea of polyamory; more specifically, our relationship was not going to plan – he seemed disengaged and uninterested in the reality of domestic life...
5 Dec 2020 3 minute read 2 comments (S)llew la Wulf
TW - perhaps offensive to some. Apologies, none meant. Just my own personal brand of honesty... Grace is the password.. I may have posted this before but I'm reminded of it again this evening... After a conversation with my children, which began w...
7 Nov 2020 3 minute read 11 comments (S)llew la Wulf
Been watching every blow by blow these last few days...on tender hooks... My kids been too... so we celebrated by dancing to a very apt song, featuring the late and great Nipsey Hussle. So many facts, figures, fuckery and statistics; 20% of Black men...
4 Nov 2020 3 minute read 3 comments (S)llew la Wulf
I feel like I'm in some kind of limbo, freeze frame, parallel universe currently... I feel blessed that I have my university work to focus on (writing an essay on a critical evaluation of teaching and learning practices, and also the practical sid...
