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Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Reni Eddo-Lodge
@renireni
Author & journalist. Contact: @FelicityBryan
- Feels absolutely wild to have broken this record 🤯 My work stands on the shoulders of so many Black British literary giants - Bernadine Evaristo, Benjamin Zephaniah, Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Stella Dadzie, Stuart Hall, Linton K Johnson, Jackie Kay, Gary Younge - to name a few.Reni Eddo-Lodge becomes first black British author to top UK book charts theguardian.com/books/2020/jun…
- Maya Angelou said, "when people show you who they are, believe them". Relevant then, relevant now, relevant forever.
- I feel like the cast of RuPaul's Drag Race UK is doing more for Britain's reputation on the world stage than the British government at this moment in time
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- I'm 31 today. 🎈🎂
- She's been drugged, forced to perform, had her reproductive rights violated. #FreeBritney is not a joke. I'm so glad she is finally speaking out.Britney Spears has publicly spoken for herself regarding the #FreeBritney movement for the first time thr.cm/mOSdIzC
- Do you ever just stare into space and think about how wild it is to be living through this time?
Show me a picture that PROVES you went to a British school- This month, I join 19 other activists, many of whom I deeply admire, on a special pull out cover of @BritishVogue's September issue. It's on newsstands this Friday.
- Wow. It's been over three years since publication, yet this is the first review of WHY I'M that properly understands what I was trying to do in the writing of it.“It had been a while since something had come along and presented a case for why the racism conversation itself is rigged.” @Nikeshshukla on the enduring lessons of @renireni’s seminal book ‘Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race’. torto.se/2YdHb1q
- I don't think any of us would have got through lockdown without the arts. TV and film is the arts. Gaming is the arts. The books you read to escape are the arts. The music you listened to in order to cope is the arts. The government ignores the arts at its peril.Failure to properly support the arts is an ideological choice and not an economic one. The maths do not add up, when compared to other industries. I get that others in my field can’t say this, but I can and I will.
- I did this interview in response to topping the UK book charts this week.Reni Eddo-Lodge: 'The debate on racism is a game to some and I don't want to play' theguardian.com/books/2020/jun…
- I still can't believe that the big Topshop is just...gone.
