The following is reproduced with permission after a discussion initiated by @bitter_melanin and continued with @yalinidream on Instagram in August 2019. This helps to explain why we - Emma Barrett Palmer, Author and Sophie Okolo, Editor, of Recipes of HOPE - have chosen to write about HOPE, but have a plan to counterbalance the manuscript with a series of essays detailing continued injustices. Always learning.

Please note my earlier spelling of Eva Tuck below was in error, it is Eve Tuck.

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Find more information about the work of Mariame Kaba here.

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