Grace Blenkinsop
Grace Blenkinsop is a writer and activist based in London. Her work aims to subvert systemic whiteness and critically interrogate the legacies of colonialism entangled throughout Britain. With an educational background in Race, Media and Social Justice (MA, Goldsmiths) and Writing (MA, Royal College of Art), specialising predominantly in Black feminism and Black British history, Grace uses critical theory to underpin her creative practice.
Grace’s writing emerges from a longing to uncover. Though often, she is less interested in what is found and more in what comes with the movement of finding. The crack of a knuckle or the bending of a word with the back of a teaspoon. Grace sees writing as an attempt: to comprehend, to grasp, to hold loosely in fingers and let go. She is not interested in writing as a means to possess or colonise, but rather, to sit with and let seep. To let writing make her, and herself, make writing, and the world.
Grace’s work has been published in the decolonial publication shado mag. She has collaborated with organisations such as the Women's Equality Party, All Black Lives UK, Greenwich Inclusion Project, and the National Maritime Museum as a research collaborator and educator on issues surrounding systemic inequality, Black liberation, and critical race theory.