Skin Deep

15/08/2024

🎨 CREATIVE STUDIO CALL-OUT 🎨

We’re looking for a creative studio/collective who can lead on the vision and design of our special ten-year Skin Deep print anthology issue.

You will be collaborating with the editorial team to bring the Skin Deep archives to life in a way that pays homage to the past while forging new creative paths, weaving together concept, content and aesthetic to produce a beautiful and accessible print.

Want to work with us?

Email managing editor [email protected]
(subject line: Anthology Design Studio) with a portfolio / deck / examples of your work.

⏳ DEADLINE: midnight on Thursday 22nd August

11/08/2024

We support .for.palestine’s loving call to to create an ethical sponsorship policy with community input, and to disclose their sponsors early enough to act on community feedback. QTIPOC deserve a pride event that is not tainted by sponsorship money from companies that profit from genocide, occupation and the suffering of marginalised communities. We encourage you to email UKBP now using the template (link in bio) ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸❤️‍🔥

09/08/2024

🧩 PLAYTIME WITH SKIN DEEP 🎲

Word on the street is that we are bringing play & imagination to the Talks Tent next Friday 16th August, 2.30pm ⛺️

We’ll be joined by Hwa Young Jung, Hadiru Mahdi , Sylvia Suli , & for a juicy discussion on how play and imagination are critical to world-building, and go hand in hand with racial justice and liberation work.

Now more than ever, we have to be able to dream up new systems and ways of being while living in a world that actively diminishes our capacity to think beyond crisis and survival.

If you’re at We Out Here next week, feel free to grace us with your presence 💛

04/11/2023

Few tickets left for the launch of our tenth issue TODAY! Book one now through the link in bio 💛
Today is also Day of Action for Palestine so we encourage you to join your local action + take part in the Central London rally. 🇵🇸 We’ll be offering a space of rest and recharge after, see you later ❣️

20/10/2023

Skin Deep are joining the global strike for Palestine today Friday 20th Oct 🇵🇸 Together with artists and other organisations we will be re-investing our time and labour into acts that support Palestinian resistance. We encourage you to join in solidarity, in the fight to end apartheid and colonial violence.

19/10/2023

Come to the march for Palestine this Saturday in London!

Want to show up but don't have anyone to go with? Or just want some friendly faces to walk alongside for support? Meet us near the start of the march and we can go together! DM us your number and we will add you to a temporary private, broadcast-only WhatsApp group - we will share the time and place to meet on there. We will also share important information for keeping safe at protests. Hopefully we will have some spare signs to share around as well!

This is an informal thing and anyone is welcome. Whether or not you’ve met Skin Deep before, attended a protest before, or supported Palestinian liberation before, you are welcome. Every body, every voice, every step, every shout matters. None of us are free until all of us are free. See you there ❤️

28/08/2022

A week ago, we held the live launch of PALESTINE: WAYS OF BEING. We feel so lucky to have been able to dedicate an entire season of work to Palestinian thinkers, activitists, writers and artists.

This season wouldn't have been possible without our excellent long time collaborator and friend, Zena Agha. Thank you so much to our contributing editor and translator, Laura Albast; our translator Ahmad and our writers, Tareq Baconi; Mousa Quos; Samah Fadil and our anonymous writer.

Thank you to , and for the support during this season.

We're grateful to our contributing editor Laura Albast, Skin Deep team Nkenna Akunna, Anu Henriques, Sylvia Hong, Hannah Azuonye and Georgie Johnson, illustrator .my.darlings and social media manager Lauren Pemberton-Nelson.

Thank you also to the members of our community for your continued support. Thank you to everyone who has read and shared the stories from this editorial season.

28/08/2022

Read all five articles from PALESTINE: WAYS OF BEING, focused on queerness, incarceration and Blackness via the link in our bio.

08/12/2020

Free event tonight! Tune in for a conversation with the filmmakers behind the amazing In My Blood It Runs documentary at 8pm GMT

Register here:

Register now for Together Films's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Tuesday December 08, 2020 at 2:00 pm CST.

03/09/2020

We want to uplift the UK's unsung Black&POC environmental justice heroes, past and present, in our new film project. Who should we be connecting with?

Nominate your fave people and orgs in this form then pass it on!

👉 https://forms.gle/aEwh4zrerb8Jb1tTA

03/07/2020

BLACK CREATIVES FUND UPDATE

Out today on Bandcamp! The first single 'Major Goes Free' with brother Dan Leavers.

------DANALOGUE X SARATHY ------

EP on super limited tape, with instructions for optimal listening and & two sticks of frankincense ready for burning.

All money goes to Skin Deep Black Creatives Fund- https://skindeepmag.com/articles/black-creatives-fund/

Photo: Fabrice Bourgelle Photography
Artwork: Tushar Menon
Kudos: Isn't It Odd

https://danalogue.bandcamp.com/album/equinox

18/06/2020

Commissioning & collaborating with Black creatives has always been part of Skin Deep, not just in times of crisis for Black communities.

Donate now to specifically support the work of Black writers, illustrators & other artists at Skin Deep >>>

Donte to support the work of Black writers, illustrators and other creatives who contribute to and collaborate with Skin Deep.