About Leyla
Leyla likes to explore what we have lost, what we see differently in the present and what we cannot change.
Nostalgia as a kind of mourning or disenfranchised grief.
Part lived experience through the eyes of a South Asian girl growing up in 90s Kent, partly imagined realities alongside the current political day-to-day.
Poems and writing that demonstrate how knowing your past and who you really were and are now, create the person you yearn to grow into.
Subtly challenging the status quo of white dominant norms in the UK through language.
Another collective way is always possible.
When she is not writing she runs her business Diverse Minds UK Ltd to improve workplace well-being and race equity in the workplace.
Featuring: the flavours of pink, not wanting to write a piece but needing to, saying things on the page that you can’t in a conversation, the balance between moving away and moving closer to what you know, seeing how your creativity lands, loving poetry as a teenager, who has the right to write, how would your writing change if you knew no-one would ever read it, getting away from the desk, the limitations we put on ourselves, the risk of putting too much weight on reviews, wanting to be at an open mic only to listen, care, fathoming boundaries, NaNoWriMo, and having reading be your constant.
Links
Cathy Rentzenbrink - 'Write It All Down'
Tara Branch - Radical Acceptance
My Interview With Leyla On The Diverse Minds Podcast
With forever gratitude to my brother, Tom Hall, for providing the opening/closing soundtrack.
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