JOURNAL

Window is a journal Maria Amidu started in January 2015, it is a repository for her random musings on significant and insignificant things

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salt, snow, earth

by Naomi Foyle, Razia Aziz and Wendy Pye

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Sunday Service

Gospel (for me) is so powerful because it’s about courage and resistance in the face of such brutality (rather than about worshipping a god through song). Also, the way people were using their voices so beautifully at such a terrorising and terrifying time always, always astounds me. (Sunday Service - one of the good things Mr. West did before seriously messing up).

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Our Bodies Back

by Jonzi D & jessica Care moore

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FIGURE

by Lanre Malalou

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Process

by Rhea Dillon

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brown sugar + voodoo

the soundtrack to the fertile years, bittersweet times

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naming

What do the words used in society to define us do to us...
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freewriting

sky

Early this morning as I looked outside I witnessed the red sky warning. A heavy cloud with the face of a demon was being graciously persuaded by a north east breeze into letting go of itself and becoming harmless smoky pieces, making way for the softest of powdery blues to take centre stage. 
Continuing on the theme of gazing, yesterday I watched the fullest of moons spread its super blue light across everything, I had to open the door so I could look at it without interruption from the cool pane of glass my head was resting on. 
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Reborn!

Why are we back here! Why the perpetual assault on our humanity, our existing! The heartbreak, I don’t want to spend the rest of my days heartbroken. 
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