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Faith by Cheyenne Brown20th June 202026th January 2022

Contemplating Blackness

I don’t just want this to be a sob story about how hard it has been to live as a black female. I want to give you a taste of how my existence in relation to race changes and develops from a hindsight perspective, knowing what I know now from the bible, academia and from […]

Faith by Cheyenne Brown2nd May 202026th January 2022

Confronting my Hair

This is long overdue but I’m gonna address something that I get asked about all the time. “Is that your real hair?” This is a question that floats through the everyday conversation of my life. Every time I post a new picture, every time I go to the beauty supply store for some products – […]

Other by Cheyenne Brown4th October 201926th January 2022

Writer Meets Verse Writer

In Warwick Arts Centre, I was sucked into the world of Lanaire Aderemi (also known as Verse Writer.) I payed my £11, expecting what I had always seen – someone at the front, reading their poetry to me for an hour. But this transcended poetry. Aderemi’s poetry was a hybrid between spoken word, acting, music, […]