Jessica Da Silva 🖤

Development @ Neal Street , freelance Writer | Director | Art Producer w/ community practise 🌈

[Hectic Teacher 🐈‍⬛🐾☕ @HecticTeacher]

After Mum's heart attack yesterday, I am putting this out there.

Heart Attacks present differently in Women, and if my Dad hadn't acted as quickly as he had, things may have been a very different story today.

[kharis. @kharisizm]

Reading Dr. Geronimus’ “Weathering” research on how BW especially are deteriorating fastest at a cellular level because of this changed my *whole* life.

[Sisters Uncut @SistersUncut]

🚨🚨 The Met Police murdered an unarmed Black man, and they want us to look the other way whilst they fob his family off with lies and excuses.

We will not be silenced! No justice, no peace!
We will be there tomorrow at Parliament Square, 12pm.
#ChrisKaba #JusticeForChrisKaba

[Lillian @LillzTIL]

Two weeks ago, we took some of the Black boys we mentor to a careers workshop at Spotify. Such a beautiful day but do you know how it ended? With the Police surrounding them in London Bridge Station accusing them of stealing phones.

They were sitting on the bench waiting for me.

[Sydney Baloue 👑🏳️‍⚧️ @sydneybaloue]

I wrote my first episode of scripted TV this year for a show called Tom Swift as the first Black trans man in the WGA! 👨🏾
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It airs tonight 9/8c on @thecw! Watch as Tom wrangles with Black cowboys… 🤠
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Co-written with Teresa Huang & directed by Clara Aranovich. Giddy up! 🐎📺

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

The government has announced a deal to offshore human beings fleeing bombs, torture and persecution to detention camps in Rwanda. This is anti-refugee, in-humane and evil.

There is no such thing as an illegal Asylum Seeker.

Utterly heartbreaking

[💖 Heart To Heart 💖 @HeartToHeartUK]

Haven’t watched the two episodes of Heart to heart yet? You have all weekend to catch them here https://t.co/n9ZaYv6lmD

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

I am shocked to learn that the Home Office is planning another mass deportation on the 11th of August.

I urgently call on the Home Office to cancel these flights and end the Hostile Environment.

[Freedom from Torture🧡 @FreefromTorture]

Yusra Mardini, 23, is an Olympic swimmer. She's also a Syrian refugee.

As a teenager, she escaped the war in Syria with her sister. Alone, they crossed eight countries & swam for three and a half hours, dragging their boat after their overcrowded dinghy to Lesbos capsized.

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[BBC Studios Press Office @BBCStudiosPress]

BBC Studios and @Directors_UK join forces to fund director mentorship scheme seeking under-represented voices.

The scheme, which launches later in 2021, aims to find and mentor a number of directors from under-represented backgrounds.

https://t.co/z1VTS2kUsf

[Sisters Uncut @SistersUncut]

The Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts bill doesn't just criminalise protest, it criminalises whole communities. But just because it has passed, it doesn't mean it can be enforced.

[Emmalie El Fadli @P_L_R_i_M]

Just had THE best chat with @findingJess about something we’re working on together. Creative juices are flowing!

[Jessica Da Silva 🖤 @findingJess]

@P_L_R_i_M Yesss! We are onto something really special

[The Scriptwriter @DomCarver]

A great opportunity for those writers with a disability (seen or unseen) who would love to write for Eastenders. If you do enter, please let them know you heard about the scheme from me, so they can keep track of where entrants come from. Good luck! #screenwritingopportunity