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Started @BLSjustice / @we_are_maia / @yardarthouse / @thisisABUELOS • Artist; systems, community, design, culture, space • Muvva • Sports luvva 🌈

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@amahra_

Amahra Spence

4 years

So many of the injustices we experience are rooted in historical land, space & policy inequities. We're raising £30,000 for the Black Land & Spatial Justice Fund to invest in community-rooted transformative actions. Please read on & help us spread widely

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Black Land & Spatial Justice Fund, organized by Amahra Spence

So many of the injustices we, as Black people, experience find their roots in historic… Amahra Spence needs your support for Black Land & Spatial Justice Fund

www.gofundme.com

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Amahra Spence

4 years

When my firstborn was 2, he was reading Little Red Riding Hood at nursery & told the staff that the big bad wolf was like mommy. I was so upset. "Does my son think I'm a wolf? Am I mean? Vicious? Does he think I'll eat him?" I asked to see the book. Big bad wolf wore a bonnet.

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"You have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land." warsan shire

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Amahra Spence

4 years

It's eugenics that has allowed you to believe the precariousness of Black health is due to biological deficiencies & inferiority, rather than structural causes and violence like poverty & racism. Remember this the next time you tell Black folks to take Vitamin D.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Please. Respect people's boundaries. My out-of-office is on for a reason. Please do not DM me on socials about work or chasing up emails. 2020 tried to end me. I deserve this break. We all do. Thanks.

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Amahra Spence

6 years

Shout out to the folks who never win awards, don't monopolise space, aren't critically recognised in their field(s), aren't shoulder deep in the industry circles, don't have huge followings... ... but keep getting up, day in day out, to do the work.

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Amahra Spence

5 years

Celebrate Black women. Support Black women. Learn from Black women. Listen to Black women. Care about Black women. Credit Black women. Move out the way of Black women. Invest in Black women. Stop speaking over Black women. Protect Black women. Black women are the source #IWD2019

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Racists aren't hidden in some seedy underworld of secret gatherings. They are our teachers, lawyers, politicians, customer service assistants, letting agents, security & everything else. We encounter them daily. That's before we get to the systemic. We've BEEN saying.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Popped in to spread a little joy. Gave birth to a blessing on Monday. He came quickly and ready for the world. I'm besotted. Back soon.

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Amahra Spence

2 years

We got a devastating funding rejection this week. Sharing because it's had me reevaluate if I want to do this anymore. Sharing because the setbacks are relentless, but social media will have you thinking it's all roses elsewhere; sharing in case anyone else is feeling this today.

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2 years

"one of the most important parts about mutual aid has to do with changing the social relationships that we have amongst each other, to fight beyond this current moment, beyond the current crisis, beyond the current form of a disaster that we’re trying to overcome." @prisonculture

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Amahra Spence

7 years

GO SEE ARTISTS' WORK BOOK ARTISTS PAY ARTISTS CELEBRATE ARTISTS SPEAK WITH ARTISTS SHARE WITH ARTISTS TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT ARTISTS

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Amahra Spence

6 years

We have a Black woman as the Director of a leading arts centre in the West Midlands. In the region. In the country. In the arts.

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ACE Midlands

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Have you heard? Doreen Foster has just been announced as the new Director of @warwickarts Centre and we're delighted to welcome her. #Coventry #Warwickshire #arts

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Amahra Spence

3 years

I really, really, really needed this sabbatical. And Wales is GIVINGGGG. My sons say they want to stay here forever.

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@lmae4x @MotherOfMoons @kceeelizabeth23 This the best thing I've ever seen. "I'm sorry but.. don't these bitches help us breeeeathe?"

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Cancelling Christmas is inhumane. But Eid is what, Boris? Muslims are what? Diwali is what? Hindus & Sikhs are what, Boris?

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Devastating news. RIP Ty. We are losing so many lights in our lives daily, I'm really not sure how we will make adequate space for all of the healing & trauma processing that is necessary through & beyond this. Love to his nearest & dearest. And everyone else grieving right now.

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Amahra Spence

3 years

Since we have time today, let's really talk about how abusers thrive in our creative & entertainment industries, how they fail upwards, how power is a distorted fiction, how many systems & people are complicit, how much lends itself to protecting abusers while ignoring survivors

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ITV platformed him knowing he was capable of this & much worse, demonstrated throughout his work history. They allowed him to 'leave' out of courtesy instead of sacking him. They are responsible for platforming his bigotry & harassment. He will be re-employed elsewhere.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Geography bored me to death in high school. I couldn't wait to get rid of it. Yet here I am, fascinated by land, people, cities, design, nature, environment. It could be such a dope subject. It's rich and vast, could be centred on critical thinking. Why is the curriculum so dry?!

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Amahra Spence

4 years

After 3 weeks in hospital, we finally brought baby home. And in time to celebrate my anniversary with the greatest partner I could ask for. The matching prints weren't intentional 😍

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4 years

@RaifaRafiq @DTA_JThompson Naaaaah this whole exchange is the best thing ever. Thanks for blessing Twitter today.

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Amahra Spence

3 years

Last year, when I was told to prepare for the worst with our littlest babe, I'll never forget the kindness, support and love shown to me & my family. Some of you have continued to check in with us & wrapped us in prayer. So here's a little update: Isaiah is thriving ❤

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Abolish the idea that you must be permanently 24/7 available in order to be legitimate in community/movement work.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

I went outside. @ThomBartley , you're a diamond.

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Amahra Spence

3 years

Them: "What's your community engagement strategy?" Me: The mandem trust and love me because we've been through the trenches since day dot. So it starts with them doing me a favour by saying yes. You can't codify this. We ARE community.

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Amahra Spence

3 years

I'm so over making myself a martyr for this work. I want to live and really live. I want that for all of us. These life-affirming spaces we're trying to create for each other don't need to be at the cost of our own lives. This next phase of my journey is going to nourish me too.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Abolish grind culture. End toxic work cultures and behaviours. Remove yourself from the myth that you must work yourself to broken in order to be considered legitimate. You have nothing to prove to anyone. Capitalism aint about to work me to an early grave.

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4 years

We have to be intentional about rest. Stop apologising about your January return with your out-of-office emails We are not machines. Nor do we have to be. Capitalism tells us otherwise. Rest is resistance. End over working. Abolish burn out culture. Stop apologising. Rest.

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Amahra Spence

10 months

I DID NOT WANT TO START AN ORGANISATION. I needed a job. Couldn't get one. I knew this was a systemic, not individualised issue. So tried to build a systemic beyond-the-self response that recognised our collective struggle for our sustained capacity

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5 years

nothing about us without us is for us

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Amahra Spence

3 years

As someone who has gone through hell to make ends meet, lived in all types of arrangements since the age of 15, been evicted, homeless & damn poor, I can't tell you how it feels to be, for the first time, financially ok enough to keep a roof over my head & take care of my kids.

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3 years

Thinking how frequently Black, POC + disabled artists and cultural workers who just want to make art end up having to create the conditions, infrastructures and systems for opportunity to be possible. Because of gross negligence and systemic failure across the industry.

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2 years

What he's not saying here is "many of the Black and POC led organisations I met with wanted nothing to do with CWG" because that would lead to a conversation that none of these man want to have out loud. Instead, he's tried to make out like we don't exist. Easier that way.

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@birminghamcg22 ’s Chief Creative Officer says “not enough large ethnically lead creative organisations in the city”

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4 years

My warrior baby. That's it. That's the tweet.

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5 years

Birmingham's "lead cultural development agency" recently rejected our application to participate in their festival. So we're hosting a whole weekend instead.

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MAIA

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Excited to announce The MAIA Weekender 20-22 Sep. Over 3 days, we're bringing creative minds, practitioners, activists & artists together to celebrate creativity & resistance. 1. Reframing development 2. Challenging systems 3. Championing wellbeing

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Amahra Spence

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The way Black people collectively grieve, congregate, celebrate, sing, dance, breathe, wail, pray, affirm, exchange stories, pour libation, tend to the spirit when mourning takes my breath away.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

To reduce Black death & illness to Vitamin D when there are more structural & man-made environmental factors that even affect our ability to absorb it is to ignore centuries of resesrch highlighting the ingrained racism within urbanism, medicine, healthcare & every other field.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Still in the hospital for my warrior baby. I won't be responding to messages or anything work related for now. Please keep my boy covered in prayers & well wishes. If you have any joyful song recommendations, please send. And protect the NHS in every way possible.

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Amahra Spence

5 years

There are so many other Black British experiences aside from the London experience. This is important. Remember this in your articles, accounts, lists, accolades. We always hear Londoners say "yeah we need to be less London-centric" while continuing to contribute to the erasure.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

I said what I said. To reduce Black suffering to a 'fault of its own' is a fallacy; a tool of supremacy. Our environment - in every facet of the word - alongside the interconnected structures are killing us in many ways. Stop blaming Black bodies.

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4 years

After all of 2020's stress, I'm beginning 2021 back in hospital with a suspected heart attack and blood clot. Can we start over? (I'm okay and being cared for by the loveliest nurses)

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3 years

Trying to move the stigma and some internalised shame around this. But I became a mom at 19 years old. My daughter would've been 11 this month. And I think about her all the time 💜

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Amahra Spence

3 years

I'm taking a sabbatical. ... or maybe the maternity leave / grief space / recovery I didn't get to take. "When I return, I don’t know how I’m going to be transformed, but I’m ready to choose myself for the first time in my adult life."

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I'm Taking A Sabbatical | Amahra Spence

Get more from Amahra Spence on Patreon

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Amahra Spence

3 years

Folks keep asking if I'm going to be writing or making new artistic work on my sabbatical. Noooope. I'm going to be a soccer mom. I'm going swimming. I'm tending to my books & garden. I'm seeking sanctuary in the Welsh hills. I'm going to get my health back. Not working AT ALL.

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Amahra Spence

3 years

My foot has been on the gas non stop, even through child birth, for 10 years. I am ready to rest, deeply. Today is my last day @yardarthouse @MAIA_Group for the year. I'm so wholly thankful to the beautiful (growing) team & wider ecosystem. Without them, this wouldn't be possible

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Amahra Spence

4 years

"UK racism is more subtle" narratives are nauseating. Racism is racism not hierarchical. It's inherently violent & plays out everywhere. "Subtle" is wildly ignorant to the country's abhorrent history & present. Also Black people have been murdered here by police & state for time.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

I really, really, really don't understand the erasure of Stephen Lawrence's name.

@BlueprintForAll

Blueprint for All

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4 years

We are excited to announce that the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust has changed its name to Blueprint for All. Here’s our CEO, Sonia Watson, explaining why our new name is the next exciting step in our work to create the change society needs.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Really is the small things. I moved out at 15 and haven't had a home big enough for a dinner table since. At Christmas, my beloved surprised us with a dinner table and chairs he'd upholstered himself. We've been eating dinner at it and playing games every day since.

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Amahra Spence

1 year

Having a trippy moment. We're about to put the call out for FOUR new roles at @MAIA_Group . We really have come a LONG way. A Black-led not-for-profit growing after 10 years... counting every blessing.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Six months ago I gave birth and it was a whirlwind of long hospital stays, consultant appointments and the like with baby's complex health needs. Through a traumatic time, he became a mini celeb in the medical world across the country. But baby is managing well and thriving...

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Amahra Spence

5 years

Hello funders. When the organisations you regularly invest in don't know how to do their jobs, don't know how to realise what their recently successful bid requires or don't know how to connect with actual people outside of their own image, guess who they call to do the work?

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4 years

Giving thanks for a lotta things this birthday. Especially grateful to have my little one home, my gorgeous friends & family around me and the Black Land & Spatial Fund reach its target. Through such a difficult year, many people have held me. Thank you for your kind messages.

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Amahra Spence

3 years

Since Wayne Couzens' sentencing, mainstream media started reporting Met Police officers being charged with rape, intimate partner violence, child sexual abuse & more. These violences are not new phenomena or a sudden surge. Nor is it a case of "a few bad apples" or just the Met.

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Amahra Spence

6 years

Birmingham, let's do BIG things. Let's be bold. Let's stop celebrating mediocrity. Let's not fear ambition. Let's stop telling people their work is "too big". Let's stop losing good people to other cities that enable people to mobilise better. Our city needs it.

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3 years

I can't believe the company I started at 22 is still going. I can't believe we survived the brutality of COVID19. I can't believe we've gone from hustling to rub 2 pennies together to employing a whole team. Taking a little time to smell the flowers and wow.

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Amahra Spence

3 years

I don't need my ego stroked. I'm here to do the work. I only have the capacity to do that with folks committed to liberation. Where care is reciprocal. And patience is granted all ways. Where honesty is centred. Where relationships aren't transactional. And integrity leads.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

If you DM me to show solidarity because you don't want your funders/partners/clients seeing you're aligned to racial justice work, you don't stand with me. I don't need you to advocate what I'm saying back at me. This isn't the solidarity we seek & I don't need my ego stroked.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

@blvckcement Yes. I've been trying to find this for ages. Its the way they're all kinda there nonchalantly for most of it. Like they been knowing.

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3 years

Nothing about the design of hospitals or GP surgeries facilitates wellness.

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4 years

I didn't say BAME. I said Black.

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Amahra Spence

2 years

What does it take to not just be wheeled out to energise those with resource? But to actually be resourced to do the work? To not just be praised for my passion, articulations or practice. To not just be the future. But resourced in the now. To be acknowledged as the present.

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Amahra Spence

2 years

So I did a thing last year LOL and it's on the telly today.

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ਇਮਨਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ | Imandeep Kaur

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Afternoon TV with the don @amahra_ on @TippingPointITV . Absolute highlight of 2022 viewing.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

2020 feels incredibly intense from a angles because everything is interconnected. Crises of public health, environment, brutality, racism, poverty... They've never been isolated incidents. We're witnessing the unravelling of this myth.

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Amahra Spence

2 years

Turned 30 and some extra today. It feels weird to celebrate amidst so much grief. So I've sat, meditated, embraced stillness & introspection. Instead, today is one of gratitude. For the honour of aging and the blessing of loving & being loved as I enter my 32nd year.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

WE DID IT!!! Thank you so much to the 714 people that have raised over £30,000 for the Black Land & Spatial Justice Fund. Anything additional raised will further the project & community resources.

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Black Land & Spatial Justice Fund, organized by Amahra Spence

So many of the injustices we, as Black people, experience find their roots in historic… Amahra Spence needs your support for Black Land & Spatial Justice Fund

www.gofundme.com

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Amahra Spence

4 years

please please please do not do to "abolition" what you have done to "intersectionality" and "decolonise".

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Influencers getting book deals would be wonderful if those doing the work, organising, creating the vocabularies and frameworks, without the thousands of followers were also getting book deals.

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Amahra Spence

3 years

Folks, my little honey, my teacher, my rainbow baby, my big Sun turns 5 today. I can't even...

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Amahra Spence

3 years

I don't like to lean into language like "I run an organisation". This isn't leadership to me. I'm part of a team & even wider ecosystem that makes this work possible. I don't say "my team". We are in service to & with each other & the mission. Individuals don't belong to leaders.

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The social contract is finished. Nobody stops at zebra crossings anymore. I could write an entire thesis specifically on this, sacredness, safety and the politics of space. Instead, I'm just trying to make it home in one piece.

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Amahra Spence

2 years

“Without new visions we don’t know what to build, only what to knock down. We not only end up confused, rudderless & cynical, but we forget that making a revolution is not a series of clever maneuvers & tactics, but a process that can and must transform us.” - Robin D.G. Kelley

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6 years

So guys. I'm building an artist-led hotel in Birmingham. Who's in?

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Why cities need artists | Amarha Spence | TEDxBrum

A personal journey of creating spaces when you can't find them, a story of resilence, adversity and the fight for a more representative city with artists as ...

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Amahra Spence

5 months

I'm thinking about hosting a lil evening reading party @ YARD. Books, blankets, snacks, wine (& alcohol free bevvies ofc). Bring a book or borrow one from YARD library. We don't have to unpack or discuss. We can just.. read... next to each other. For the love of it. Anyone down?

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I will never ever forget the people that prayed for him and supported my family as the doctors told us he wasn't going to make it. Look at him 😍 18 months strong!

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Honoured to be part of England's first Land Commission, alongside some folks whose work I admire. To review and reimagine public land use.

@LpoolCityRegion

Liverpool City Region

@LpoolCityRegion

4 years

Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram, has announced the establishment of England’s first Land Commission, specifically established to review the use of public land for community wealth building. Read more:

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4 years

@TheMizzCandy Gallivanting Copacetic Frolic Top tier thread

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3 years

Warrior Baby is ONE today. Whewww, it's an emotional one!

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Amahra Spence

2 years

TRIGGER WARNING Conversations with my community have tipped me over the edge. People are literally stuck between suicide ideation & insurmoumtable debt because they LITERALLY cannot afford to live. Right now. In conditions that were man made. There is no container for this rage.

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4 years

Some theatres turn their spaces into food banks, vaccination hubs, sites of refuge, community resources. Others turn them into courthouses.

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Amahra Spence

3 years

We're building dream infrastructure.

@TheStage

The Stage

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A new venue for creatives from black and under-represented communities is being launched in Birmingham by social justice organisation @MAIA_Group , as plans are also revealed for an artist-run hotel

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Amahra Spence

7 years

Always remember that people have been doing important work outside of your peer groups. Just because you haven't come across them, doesn't mean they aren't there. Always remember there are people who are doing the work far from the lights of social media.

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Amahra Spence

3 years

Game changing. As someone who was posed with "either take unpaid leave or return to work" while I was grieving the death of my baby, I don't even have the words...

@the_female_lead

The Female Lead

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New Zealand just approved a new measure allowing for paid leave after miscarriage. The legislation is believed to be among the first in the world, applying to couples who lose a baby at any point.

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We need serious fucking bold, out loud, rigorous solidarity w our trans kin. Not just today, always. Our trans siblings BEEN telling us about this murderous hell. When we say the nation's supremacist DNA baked into EVERY system & leads to early death, you thought we were joking?

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4 years

Trying to ensure COVID doesn't kill our organisation, while mothering 2 kids, my newborn has developed complex care needs after having meningitis and sepsis, I've become my mom's carer, I'm currently homeschooling, I'm traumatised by the year, I can't even breathe right now.

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Amahra Spence

2 years

Some days are tough and I have no fight left in me. Other days, like today, I soften with the magnitude of the love around me. This morning, the little one woke up crying. And on the baby monitor, I could hear my 6 yr old singing "hush little baby, don't you cry" 😭

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Amahra Spence

1 year

Wanted to do this for a really, really, really long time. We're finally on the way. At MAIA, we're on a mission to build collective capacity for a world towards liberation. 10 years in. Love to everyone who makes this work possible. Come join the team ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

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1 year

MAIA is expanding! We’re reshaping and growing our team to deepen into our mission strands and to bring in expertise in narrative and communications. Info here: Deadline: 9am, 2nd October 23 Interview dates: 19 Oct & 20 Oct 23 Come work with us! 🌟🖤

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Amahra Spence

3 years

Birmingham, when are we going to have a conversation about segregation in this city? About disparity by design and how this plays out along the "invisible" North and South divide?

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Black people, never short of ideas & fire, are fundraising for huge projects & seeing their goals being met in a matter of days, if not hours right now. It's glorious. I'm so excited for these manifestations in the world. But it tells us resource was always there for this work.

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Amahra Spence

3 years

I was today years old when I learned that "shubeen" is from the Gaelic word "síbín", originating in Ireland in the 1700s. I love learning all the alignments in Jamaican and Irish language/culture.

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Amahra Spence

2 years

Grandad just told me he's proud of me because I "pushed my imagination ahead and built things". He called me a visionary. And now I'm crying. I'm here because his imagination was so radical it necessitated my being. How could I not dedicate my everything to continuing their work?

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Amahra Spence

3 years

Mom and Dad's night out. Love celebrating the incredible people & movements at #mbccawards . I didn't win Social Activist of the Year - shout out to @kelechnekoff . But it means a lot to be acknowledged when so much of what we do and organise is invisible. The work continues.

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Amahra Spence

2 years

"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them." Assata Shakur already told us. We're going to need you to wake up.

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Amahra Spence

1 year

I've gone home 🇯🇲 Celebrating Emancipation Day, Independence Day, our anniversary, my birthday & World Cup history with my people, on the land of wood and water. The most perfect homecoming.

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Amahra Spence

4 years

Racist & classist planning & architecture decisions necessitated the birth of hip hop, grime and drill. These music genres are critiques of their environment. Therefore, we can use them as teaching tools to create radical architectures instead. In this essay, I will...

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Amahra Spence

6 years

I don't see how, if your (life or professional) work is invested in decolonisation and/or decoloniality, it would make sense to accept any accolade in relation to Empire.

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Amahra Spence

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Jamie Oliver.

@shereeny

✧ 𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓷 ✧

4 years

who’s not police but FEELS like police to you?

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Amahra Spence

6 months

"Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the photograph I shared yesterday caused."

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Amahra Spence

8 months

As I reflect on 10 years of MAIA, I have to celebrate my eldest. This beautiful soul has been with me the whole time. From a newborn, being held by friends we made on leadership programmes & business workshops, sitting on the laps of collaborators, attending every meeting..

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Amahra Spence

3 years

No one would leave home unless home chased you to the shore... Unless home told you, to quicken your legs. Leave your clothes behind. Crawl through the desert. Wade through the oceans. Drown. Starve. Beg.

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