Editorial Schemer at Penguin Random House
Founder + Director of PRIM. PRIM is a platform for storytelling born out of my love for books, not just the reading but the story it aims to tell, how we can connect through them as well as the variety of ways we consume stories - audio, visual and oral. Myself and a small team have created a digital and physical space to make access to stories, by people of black ancestry, readily available all the time.
Projects
- LOVE NOTES FROM QUARANTINEA CELEBRATION OF #PRIDE EPISODE 4: In a special video series amplifying the voices of LGBTQIA+ creators, #BritishVogue ran six episodes of unique content from some of the community’s greatest talents. For the fourth short film, director @DryBabe, the founder of digital storytelling platform @Prim.Black, celebrates the lost art of the love note with a collection of sweet missives written by members of OKHA, PRIM’s queer Black book club. Directed by @Prim.Black, @DryBabe, edited by @ChiaSeedChia
- PRIM Bookstore Pop upThis Black History Month, we wanted visitors to expand their bookshelf with works from Black British, African, Caribbean and Afro-Latinx authors exploring joy, love, sexuality, self and more. We took over UNIT 15 Boxpark Shoreditch and transformed it into a bookstore and community library with books by authors of Black ancestry from the UK and around the world. The PRIM pop-up bookstore included books curated by K Bailey Obazee, a community library where BIPOC visitors can enjoy a free book do
- OKHA - The Queer + Black Book ClubA book club for queer and black fam, primarily, where the focus is literature, poetry, and plays by African, Caribbean & Afro-Latinx authors. For each session we will provide the read, have an exhibition by a queer + black artist and usually another component such as a panel discussion, author Q+A or screening.
Projects credited in
- BBZ BLK BK: Alternative Graduate Show 2019 SUBMISSIONS OPEN!A yearly show open to the public for submissions and held at Copeland Gallery in Peckham. Giving Queer Black artists based in the UK and Ireland the opportunity and platform to have their work seen and critiqued by a panel of highly respected artists, press and influential galleries. As well as meet and work with other artists during the process.26
- WeWork Creator Awards 2018 - Deadline: 10th SeptemberWeWork has opened applications to help fund your big idea. The Creator Awards support creators who make it their life’s work to disrupt the ordinary in pursuit of the extraordinary. We’re celebrating performers, makers, do-gooders, and mavericks who have gathered in your city to make a difference. Innovators from Glasgow to Liverpool to Dublin are eligible to apply. Are we going to celebrate you at the Creator Awards? Dreaming up a new idea? Achieving real change? **Deadline extended*18
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Work history
General ManagerPeckham Levels
London, United KingdomFreelance