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Dr Christine Checinska on Windrush fashion, black style, and why you should take your kids to museums
Dr Christine Checinska on Windrush fashion, black style, and why you should take your kids to museums
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Jun 23, 2021
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Podcast episode
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This week on Growing up with gal-dem, Natty and Charlie are joined by Christine Checinska, curator at the V&A and fashion historian. Christine talks us through her childhood as a creative child, teacher reports and advice on nurturing her skills, and how her interest in blackness, fashion, and self-imaging started. Covering everything from diasporic fashions, respectability politics, and the nuances of black womanhood, this week’s episode is a beautiful journey into conversations and areas that deserve our attention and interest. Listen through, and if you’re able - visit some of Christine’s curated work at the newly re-opened V&A in London.
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Released:
Jun 23, 2021
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