Afro-Gaidheil
20 Oct, BBC Alba & thereafter on the iPlayer
Anns a' phrògram aithriseachd ùr seo, thèid an t-seinneadair, Cass Ezeji, air chuairt a’ coinneachadh ri luchd-labhairt na Gàidhlig aig a bheil dualchas Afraganach.
Singer Cass Ezeji takes a journey to meet Gaelic speakers of African heritage.
Shaping Afro-Gael Identity: Cò Sinn? (Who are we?)
23 October, University of Strathclyde – free
The opening night of the Living Languages Series 2025–26! A conversation with artist & Gaelic-speaker, Cass Ezeji
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-afro-gael-identity-co-sinn-who-are-we-tickets-1787145112139
Service to Empire
a play by Maud Sulter
National Galleries Scotland present the first abridged rehearsed reading from Maud Sulter’s play SERVICE TO EMPIRE. Directed & abridged by Adura Onashile & co-curated with Mother Tongue. The reading is followed by a Q&A
9/9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83luy9rmu38
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“I Name Myself Zami”
Maud Sulter’s Queer Form
Susannah Thompson, Scottish Literary Review 16/1, 2024
Available free on Open Access via Project MUSE
8/9
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930915
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Maud Sulter: Passion
Her Work and Legacy
This website showcases her legacy, featuring exhibitions, events & publications to the present. It is curated & maintained on behalf of the Estate of Maud Sulter.
7/9
https://maudsulterpassion.wordpress.com
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Being written out of history can happen to you… No one will document our future but ourselves.
—Maud Sulter, “Call and Response” (1988)
Tomiwa Folorunso & Natasha Thembiso Ruwona draw on Maud Sulter’s essay “Call and Response” to discuss the making of their 2022 film “maud”
6/9
https://www.greatergovanhill.com/latest/in-response
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Tomiwa Folorunso (Executive Producer) and Natasha Thembiso Ruwona (Director) draw on Maud Sulter’s 1988 essay ‘Call and Response’ to reflect on the making of their new maud. (2022) – a short film about the Gorbals-born artist.
“Sulter’s creative work encourages us to think of the Scottish African field as offering a fresh perspective on writing, identity and community.”
Maud Sulter: Passion, by Deborah Cherry, includes Sulter’s images & poetry—reviewed here by Esraa Husein
5/9
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/maud-sulter-passion-by-deborah-cherry/
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As Deborah Cherry has observed, Maud Sulter’s work highlights the interconnections between her birth country, Scotland, and her Ghanaian heritage. Sulter’s art, journalism and critical and creative writing are anchored in Black women’s experiences, exploring the intersections between land, race and identity. As Sulter observes in Let It Be Told: Essays by Black Women in […]
As a black woman
the bearing of my child
is a political act…
—Maud Sulter, “As a Black Woman”
Published in As a Blackwoman: Poems 1982–1985 (Akira Press, 1985)
4/9
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Maud Sulter was born in Glasgow, of Scots & Ghanaian descent: her poem “Circa 1930” argues that these two cultures “are not as disparate as they might / at first seem. Clan-based societies / With long memories and global diasporas.”
3/9
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/maud-sulter/
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☝️📷: self-portrait of Maud Sulter as Jeanne Duval, the mistress of Charles Baudelaire, representing Calliope. From “Zabat”, a series of portraits of creative black women by Sulter, showing each woman as one of the 9 Muses. The series is held by the V&A
2/9
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O134377/calliope-photograph-sulter-maud/
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Assoc for Scottish Literature
