Assoc for Scottish LiteratureOct 7

The Maud Sulter Annual Lecture
31 October, Glasgow School of Art – free

Pratibha Parmar met Maud Sulter in the mid 1980’s when many outside the mainstream arts establishment were committed to growing a vibrant Black women’s arts movement. Parmar will talk about these foundational moments in dialogue with Sulter’s work & their reverberations today.

https://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/the-maud-sulter-annual-lecture-with-pratibha-palmar/

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureSep 19

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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Service to Empire, a play by Maud Sulter

YouTube
Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureSep 19

“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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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureSep 19

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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MAUD SULTER PASSION

Her Work and Legacy

MAUD SULTER PASSION
Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureSep 19

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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In Response: Reflections on making a film about Maud Saulter — Greater Govanhill

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.

Greater Govanhill
Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureSep 19

“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/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poet #poetry #photography #MaudSulter #BPOC #Blackwriters #womenwriters #Scotland #Ghana

‘Maud Sulter: Passion’, by Deborah Cherry - The Bottle Imp

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 […]

The Bottle Imp
Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureSep 19

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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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureSep 19

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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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureSep 19

☝️📷: 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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Calliope | Maud Sulter | Sulter, Maud | V&A Explore The Collections

'Calliope', dye destruction print, Zabat series, Maud Sulter, 1989

Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureSep 19

On leaving
you playfully punched
my left
shoulder.

The sensation
remains

But your
voice fades

The sensation
remains
But your
image fades

I
short of breath
tremble

I think
you’ve
cracked
a
rib.

—“Gone but Not Forgotten”, by Maud Sulter (1960–2008)
born #OTD, 19 Sep – a 🎂 🧵

1/9

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