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Jeffrey Boakye Jeffrey Boakye is a writer, teacher and music enthusiast originally from Brixton, London. He has a particular interest in issues surrounding educa tion, race and popular culture. Jeffrey has taught English in London second ary schools and sixth-form colleges since 2007, previously working in jour nalism and copywriting, after graduating with a degree in English Literature. His first book, Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime, is recognised as one of the first seminal books about grime music, published by Influx Press in 2017. Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored is his second major book, published under Dialogue Books in 2018. He is also the co-author of ....
‘My larger concern is that as we sequester online, our lack of imagination threatens to foreclose our respect for other people’s realities.’ In the early months of 2021, with the pubs and clubs, not to mention the shops, closed until further notice, Jeremy Atherton Lin and Kevin Brazil came together to talk to reminisce about drag nights and gay clubs, and the community these places nurture. Atherton Lin is the author of Gay Bar, a cultural and personal history of gay bars across London, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Kevin Brazil’s
Kevin Brazil: When lockdown first hit – good lord, it’s almost been a year – I couldn’t bear the thought of going out. Getting through was just about all I could manage. Even in the summer, when there were raves happening up in Hackney Marshes, and a friend told me stories of everyone sitting around a bonfire, passing around a key, I was like: nah, I’m good. ....