Tag: Glasgow

  • Aleisha details her experience of growing up as a mixed-race person in Glasgow.

  • I think often of my mum’s choice to change her name from Mohammed. How she must have felt when she accepted that she and her children would be safer without that name. What she had to give up within herself to change it. Growing up I loved to spell it out over and over again.…

  • The SRB Interview: Jackie Kay Scottish Review of Books Volume 11, Issue 3 (2016) Opening one of Jackie Kay’s books is like walking into a busy metropolitan bar that has accommodated within its walls the deep past, character and charm of a country pub. You know you will encounter stories comic and sad, that you…

  • Maud Sulter The Herald Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom 2008-03-21 Artist and writer; Born September 19, 1960; Died February 27, 2008. MAUD Sulter, who has died after a long illness aged 47, was an extraordinarily gifted visual artist, writer, playwright and cultural historian. She was born in Glasgow, of Scots and Ghanaian descent: in her poem…