Between a Rock, a Hard Place and a Dystopia

Between a Rock, a Hard Place and a Dystopia

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Black Respectability, Radical Empathy and Stormzy
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Anarchist at heart, socialist in practice

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I interviewed actor Stephan James on Barry Jenkins' radical empathy, James Baldwin, black love stories and respectability plus British slang in 2018.

Recently the spectre of respectability has reared it’s ugly head in my life in numerous ways. I’m an anarchist at heart and a socialist in practice, so respectability is the last thing I am concerned with …

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