Hatred Is A Bitter Fruit - Open Mic + Book Launch
Jacqueline Ennis-Cole invites you to an open-mic and book launch event.
Jacqueline received a Spread The Word Commission Award in Autumn 2023. Recent readings include Lewisham Literature Festival, Autistic Shuffle, Devereux and with Poem Brut at Rich Mix and a Hundred Years Gallery. They received an Arts Council Project Award in 2024, to co-facilitate a series of free poetry workshops at CLR james Library and VFD for LGBTQIA+ communities and to produce a diverse and intersectional poetry anthology hatred is a bitter fruit.
The co-host will be Venus - a martial artist, writer and performer from Harlesden. A sex worker for many years, her work is a reflection of her experiences with unconventional notions of power, strength, sensuality, subversion and the concept of embodiment as knowledge. She is a recent graduate with a BA in Politics, Philosophy and History, and is founder of Sex and Rage, a sex worker led organisation resisting stigma and shame through sex education.
Our other co-host will be our own Lyall Hakaraia.
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