A FLY Girl’s Guide to University clare e.potter

A FLY Girl’s Guide to University clare e.potterToni Morrison once said, If theres a book you want to read, but it hasnt been written yet, then you must write it. In 2016 four friends wrote the book they wish theyd had as 18 year old women of colour going to study in the elite academic institution of Cambridge University. And what a book! Wonderful, fiery, radical and brave it uses multiple voices and forms such as memoir, polemic, poetry, critical approaches to document their experiences as women

Helen of Troy

gender and address that poke

Andrew Wynn Owen has replied with friendly enthusiasm

It was in Portici that he died

to the building of a post-emancipation nation

As if to tremble is to live

They are about times when you do things to excess

Pierre Joris

my father was strapping up my trunk

Turning to an old dictionary

the ASTI Achievements Award

with matches in the oat grass