Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan burst onto the international poetry scene when a recording of her performance of her Islamophobia-excoriating 'This Is Not a Humanising Poem' at the 2017 Roundhouse Poetry Slam went viral, gathering over two million views online. Since then, she has become an outspoken critic of the marginalisation of Muslims in Britain, an educator, and a writer of renown, with work published in The Guardian, The Independent and several anti-racist anthologies, and performances around the world. She is the co-author of A Fly Girl’s Guide to University: Being Women of Colour at Cambridge and Other Institutions of Power and Elitism, and the author of Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia. In this episode, she discusses her first poetry collection, Postcolonial Banter. An intimate description of Suhaiymah's turn to poetry to tackle her feelings of exclusion at Cambridge University, and her development as a steadily more reflective artist, this episode charts her ongoing battles against simultaneous hyper-visibility and silencing and the increasing ambition of her writing.

'My voice is the only place I can lay guidelines on how I want to be seen.'

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