Week 11, The experience of having to flee one’s country is told in reports, stories, songs or drawings.
PlanetHeroines25th June 2020
Notes: George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis sparked huge anti-racist demonstrations in most of the western world protesting discrimination and police violence. This programme questions the definition of race, shows how racism is based on false premises and who profits from it. ‘They're talkin' 'bout a revolution’ sings Tracy Chapman, US-American singer-songwriter and…
PlanetHeroines18th June 2020
‘The calendar is made up of the past, for those at the top. So that it will stay that way, the powerful fill it up with statues, holidays, museums, homages, parades. That all serves the purpose of keeping the past in place; where things have already happened and not where they will…
PlanetHeroines16th June 2020
Week 9, The USA, a state founded on forcefully expropriating land from its Native American inhabitants and exploiting that land using slave labour, has always had a problem with institutionally embedded racism and state violence aimed at maintaining the power of the wealthy.
PlanetHeroines11th June 2020
CHARLOTTE IRWIN explores how Pixy Liao visually represents her relationship with her boyfriend.
Charlotte Irwin9th June 2020
