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    Blackboard (Keep ya' head up)
    By Tia-Renee Mullings and Katiann Barros Rocha

    21:30, Wed 21st – Sat 24th February 2024 at Corpus Playroom
    Lent Week 5

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    Racial discrimination, racism

    What if you code-switch so hard
    That you just switch?
    That it just becomes the code?

    What do you get when you put a Black-British Caribbean working-class woman in a predominantly white institution that seems to be praying on her downfall?

    An identity crisis, that’s what.

    ‘Blackboard’ follows Adina, a headstrong, politically-minded 18-year-old starting her first term at the prestigious Fawcett institute, as she struggles to reconcile her attendance there with her identity. Watch as she attempts to navigate academia, friendship, love, and what seems to be an endless sea of microaggressions while the judging voices of her friends, her melodramatic inner-voice, and the enigmatic Black Council echo.

    Will she crumble under the unbearable weight of impostor syndrome and ignorance? Will she remain true to her values, keeping her ‘Black Card’? And what’s up with the mysterious blackboard that seems to track her every mistake?

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