When I Find Home

A poetry & visual arts exploration of home and displacement curated by @toluagbelusi

[When I Find Home @WhenIFindHome]

Join us @CurveLeicester for our final performance of #Ilélawàtour

Ilé la wà explores the stories of four immigrants fighting to belong in a place that doesn't see them.

"They chose Britian but it hasn't chosen them"

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[Phil Yu @angryasianman]

Kao Saelee served 22 years in prison, fought wildfires for $1/hour. But when he finished his sentence, he was handed over to ICE and faces deportation to Laos, a country he fled as a refugee when he was two years old. https://t.co/5rFWgMSeeL

[a "Black-passing" Latina. @aliciasanchez]

I have so much to say about the news coming out that ICE has been performing forced sterilizations on detainees. 1. Activists have been begging us, especially our anti-violence movements, to pay attention to sexual and reproductive violence faced by women, trans and cis and queer

[When I Find Home @WhenIFindHome]

The hostile environment continues and we really must be honest about the fact that this government does not care about black lives. What is this delay if not another way to say this is not your home?

[amelia gentleman @ameliagentleman]

Furious and sad to hear this ex-soldier's description of waiting for #windrush compensation so he can rebuild a life shattered by the hostile environment.

He spent 5 years destitute, too scared to open the door

15 months wait for compensation, no news

https://t.co/j98QXjcY9B

[When I Find Home @WhenIFindHome]

When treating people with humanity is just a political talking point to score points without ever yielding a result, everyone suffers in the end

[Refugee Action @RefugeeAction]

This is how people seeking asylum have been treated since the coronavirus crisis began in March. Left out of measures to provide extra help, they're still waiting for @pritipatel and @borisjohnson to be true to their words.

No decision = a decision not to help. #StandUpForAsylum

[MeeraSyal💙 @MeeraSyal]

We clap for the immigrants who are on our frontline with one hand and slap them round the face with the other. I suspect this is what Priti was like at school. And I bet she eats chapatti with a knife and fork.

[05 events @05events]

Tolu Agbelusi is a Nigerian British poet, playwright, producer, educator and lawyer. A Callaloo Fellow, she was shortlisted for the 2018 White Review Poetry Prize and is a 2017 BBC Slam Finalist. Agbelusi has performed widely including at Stanza Poetry.

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[When I Find Home @WhenIFindHome]

Our governments wear their heartlessness boldly. This is madness

[JEI @justempower]

Lives scattered as #TarkwaBay community in #Lagos as @NigerianNavy chases thousands out with less than 1 hours’ notice, boatloads arriving at CMS jetty with all belongings and nowhere to go. #EndForcedEvictions #LagosOnFire

[🐟 Anna Amato #JohnsonOut #StandWithUkraine #FBPE @annaamatorights]

I‘ve already been refused residency twice after 55 years of being a law abiding and loyal citizen of this country and now am forced to apply for permission to live in a home I’ve worked hard for or else I’ll be deported. This is the ultimate humiliation. https://t.co/0RZFWhmrVP

[When I Find Home @WhenIFindHome]

“They said the Home Office has said that you’re not British. They said they wouldn’t help me until I could prove I was British. It upset me. I was born here, I haven’t left the country... “This has made me depressed; I feel like I don’t know who I am.”

[amelia gentleman @ameliagentleman]

Three generations of #Windrush family struggling to prove they are British https://t.co/mukgL7l424

[When I Find Home @WhenIFindHome]

When I think of the real stories Ilé La Wà tried to shed light on, this one is definitely up there. This government’s policies have been a mess.

[tafadzwa muchenje @tafaadzwa]

With the upcoming election, I have felt a need to share something that I have gone through since I was 17 due to the hostile environment the conservative government created within the UK immigration system (a very very long thread)

[When I Find Home @WhenIFindHome]

These people with false senses of entitlement-who ‘other’ people with each breath and consistently knock away at the humanity of these ‘others’ with so called jokes.These people in power, who create environments where some of us can’t feel safe; why is this what we are voting in?

[Tez @tezilyas]

Watch how I give the bigot enough rope to metpahorically hang himself...
#ByeByeBoris
3/4

[When I Find Home @WhenIFindHome]

The Home Office needs a complete overhaul. The lack of humanity they so freely exhibit is too much.
https://t.co/aewVxENKyq

[Tolu Agbelusi @ToluAgbelusi]

Did she hear herself? Has she watched this back? Did she cringe when she did-When she saw herself smirking as she boasted about stripping hard won freedoms? Do they all realise she’s talking fraff? Did the devil shake her hand after? Did she smile then too? I want to know

[🎒Shailja #FreePalestine Patel @shailjapatel]

After Tony Mochama assaulted me in 2014, I wrote:

"Our bodies are our first homes. If we are not safe in our bodies, we are always homeless."

Tony Mochama has unhomed many women. He evicted me from my own body with his assault. Now he seeks to evict me from my own voice.

NO.

[When I Find Home @WhenIFindHome]

So you know when our play #IléLaWà mentioned people being stopped and detained for not being able to show ID in a spot check. That was based on events in London but same madness 👇🏾

[Rep. Diana DeGette @RepDianaDeGette]

The Trump admin’s new “expedited removal” rule should terrify us all. It will allow ICE officers to approach ANYBODY in the U.S. (w/o probable cause) & demand they prove they’re a citizen or have been in the US for 2 years. If they can’t, they’re deported. No trial, no hearing.

[creative @EMMANUELSUGO]

A note to the universe saying that it's 4 days till the final performance of #sweetlikechocolateboy @TheatrePeckham 😎

I haven't given up on my dream of @stormzy seeing the show

Tickets are still available so grab one whilst you still can
https://t.co/Kgq1K7Yfwr

[When I Find Home @WhenIFindHome]

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[When I Find Home @WhenIFindHome]

Our offer of a pair of tickets to this tomorrow is gone. Congrats to the lucky winner. We still have a pair of tickets for tonight to give away. Slide into DM’s here or @ToluAgbelusi

[Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu @TristanFAiduenu]

Snippet 1 of our interview with @BBCRadioLondon w/ the illuminating @jasminedotiwala ! In this snippet our straight commander @jadehackett2015 talks about her switch from dance to acting via the west-end event of our time: @NineNightPlay !