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CARINYA SHARPLES

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Sad to miss the album launch but very happy to receive my copy of the beautiful @let.drum.beat's album Lua Cheia 🌏 (Yes, I still like having a physical CD rather than a download!) #musicislife #supportartists

When in Leeds... Popped into @peepaltreepress for a cuppa and to get a copy of Roger Robinson's 'A Portable Paradise' - nabbed a bonus book too: Rooplall Monar's 'Backdam People', the first book Peepal Tree published more than 30 years ago 🌱 #independentpublishing #leeds #history

Thanks @naomidada for a whirlwind (literally! 🍃) introduction to lovely Leeds! Great to catch up properly too.

Reflecting on a recent workshop for volunteers and staff from organisations that support refugees in detention centres and the community. Run with three others from my course in Creative Writing & Education. Often volunteers don't get the opportunity to reflect on what they do, or they feel that their voices don't matter. By writing about their experiences and remembering those they've met on the way they can start to release and reflect on some of the emotions, difficulties and joys they've faced. (Cut-out poem by me, extracts from Warsan Shire's poem 'Conversations About Home (at a Deportation Centre)' and Rodaan Al Galidi's novel 'Two Blankets, Three Sheets') #valuevolunteers #creativewriting #teacherstudent

Was happy to take part in the @mixedracefaces project, which is collecting stories and photos of mixed race people, whose experiences are often exoticised, misunderstood or sidelined. Not sure what I'm talking about? Check out the page to read more stories 🌱 #listen #understand #shareyourstory

❤ Boys II Men tribute @b2mtributeuk

PAY UP, UNIQLO! Joined a protest this morning outside Uniqlo's store on London's Oxford Street, organised by the @cleanclothescampaign who are highlighting the battle of 2,000 garment workers in Indonesia owed $5.5m in pay and severance after Uniqlo pulled its orders and the factory where they worked closed down in 2015. Some of the women are now homeless, struggling to find work, and blacklisted for campaigning. Put the pressure on the CEO of @uniqlo @uniqlo_uk @uniqloindonesia to pay what the workers are owed #payupuniqlo #internationalwomensday (pic via Tansy Hoskins on Twitter). Check link in bio for more

Bizarre workshop prep for my after-school club this week. They had great fun interviewing each other and pretending to be reporters and their alien guests (the Star Wars mask was the closest prop I could find at the charity shop) #creativewriting #workshop #primaryschool

Most normal people go for drinks or dancing on a Friday night. I go to a poetry and 'dream yoga' event. There was wine tho. And Pringles. So that makes it a party.

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