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JoinedOctober 28, 2021
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Larissa Kennedy is a writer, movement griot/jali (storyteller), and community organiser from South London with roots in Jamaica, Barbados, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. In her organising, Larissa has been part of challenging structural injustice, and building collective power at all levels - from the grassroots to the UN. Larissa is founding chair of TALAWA, a Black-led collective of racialised students and young people focused on political education and transformative action at the nexus of Black feminism, climate justice and liberated education. At shado, Larissa is a writer, editor, and co-host of the shado-lite podcast which discusses a number of the world’s biggest global injustices, supporting our community to move from apathy and overwhelm to collective action and hopeful pathways forward.
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The comedy collective of refugees and migrants making the unthinkable laughable
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Text: Larissa KennedyImage: Esther Lalanne
Lateena, the Jamaican artist reclaiming riddims for trans self-love
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How the Nueva Canción genre is influencing a new generation of artists taking up the mantle of protest music in Latin America
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Leah Cowan explores the realities of, and possibilities for, British feminism
Text: Larissa KennedyImage: Paola De La Cruz
Afrohunting is leading the Afro-Argentine renaissance that tells a different story
Text: Larissa KennedyImage: Luci Pina
Delving into The Intersectional Environmentalist with Leah Thomas
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The anti-racist educator invites us all to reimagine education
Text: Larissa KennedyImage: Sophie Le Grelle
President of NUS talks through their student manifesto and explains why reimagining our education system will be key to our climate solutions.