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So in September 2019, I decided to do a Masters degree in Music Business Management. My third degree after my BA & PGCE 
. I spent October 2019-August 2020 focusing my research on various aspects Black British Music culture, but particularly Black Women. A thread 
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. I spent October 2019-August 2020 focusing my research on various aspects Black British Music culture, but particularly Black Women. A thread (1/10)
The ugly violence of colourism, racism and sexism compounded, continues to reek havoc and have devastating psychological and economic consequences for Black Women in Music, especially in the UK 
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We are shut out of the music economy despite creating and heavily influencing global music/recording culture of the past 100+ years, across the African diaspora. (3/10)
My research found that one manifestation of this in Britain, is how mixed-race women have become the face of Black femininity.
This is highly problematic as: 1) The global majority of Black women are not mixed-race and are also not fair in complexion (4/10)
This is highly problematic as: 1) The global majority of Black women are not mixed-race and are also not fair in complexion (4/10)
- so lightening the Black female representation to fit more Western standards of beauty is damaging. 2) This colourism has contributed to the erasure of our voices, faces and contributions to our own culture (5/10)
3) Black women are discouraged and even shamed for speaking out about these forms of oppression - often told that colourism doesn’t exist, we are being divisive, we are jealous of other women, angry, undesirable, lazy and difficult. No one talks, the cycle continues. (6/10)
In the Music Industry, very few are prepared to go there. But I did! Now you say Black Lives Matter & posted your square. I ask well does that include Black women like me? You go silent..just as expected. Clap clap for your performance, but we don’t have time for spectacles(7/10)
My dissertation topic was a hefty one: I investigated the experiences of inequality for dark-skinned Black women in British Music, and the intersection of Afro-futurism
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Why Afro-futurism? Well there are lots of reasons, but mainly a world where Black women can exist without multi-layered oppression, erasure, violence and silencing, does NOT actually exist. So we’ve all got to re-imagine this landscape for ourselves, and action it. (9/10)
Make sure to join tonight at 7pm w/ darlings @IsattaSheriff @Ruvxmbo @CharisseeC ! NO debating, or derailing - just holding space for BW to talk, heal & mobilise. Please use the hashtag #BlackWomeninMusicUK to chime in - we wanna hear from you! 
(FIN) https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/jP9dkemY
(FIN) https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/jP9dkemY
