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Muneera Pilgrim
from Issue 21
The Book
Muneera Pilgrim Debut Poetry Collection
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About the book Copyright © 2021 That Day She'll Proclaim Her Chronicles explores belonging, spirituality, gender, race, and identity, as well as themes of girlhood, pop culture, familial bonds, and crushes, against the backdrop of London and Bristol streets, steeped colonial power structures that still live on. Despite that this collection is a story of love and a labour of love. The Author
Muneera Pilgrim is an international poet, cultural producer, educator, writer, broadcaster, and TEDx speaker. She is a community artist-researcher, a mental health professional, and an alumni associate artist with the English Touring Theatre, where she is working on her first play. She conducts workshops, shares art, lectures, and finds alternative ways to tell stories, build community, and exchange ideas. She believes storytelling is at the heart of centring communities that are often forced to the margins and is a necessary practice to cultivate joy, love, and disrupt harmful narratives that are pushed on to minoritised people. Muneera is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 2’s Pause for Thought. She has written for the Guardian, Amaliah, Huffington Post, the Independent, Al Jazeera, Black Ballad, and various other platforms. She has been featured across the BBC network, as well as Sky News, Sky Arts, and Al Jazeera. In 2015 a documentary about her former group Poetic Pilgrimage was commissioned by Al Jazeera. Hip-Hop Hijabis has been screened several times since. Muneera holds an MA in Islamic studies, where she focused on Black British pathways to spirituality, migration, gender, and race, and she holds a second MA in Women’s Studies, where she focused on the intersection of faith and spirituality, race, gender, autoethnography and methodologies of empowerment for non-centered people. Her innovation in her work won her the Ann Kaloski-Naylor Award for Adventurous Academic Writing.
