Mothers' Tongue:
Spoken Word Evening

Jaspreet Kaur

aka Behind the Netra is an award-winning spoken word artist and writer from East London. Her poetry focuses on sharing her thoughts on gender issues, mental health stigma and the postcolonial immigrant experience, and taboo issues within the South Asian community. Jaspreet has performed in numerous arts organisations, corporations and charities such as Theatre Royal London, House of Lords, Wembley Stadium and TEDx. Jaspreet debut book Brown Girl Like Me speaks directly to the experiences of South Asian women in Britain since 1978 and explores how to navigate difficulties that come with an intersectional identity.



Dr Sanah Ahsan

is a liberation psychologist, poet, presenter and educator. Her work is centred on compassion, decolonising our understandings of mental health and ‘embracing each other’s madness’. Her psychological practice is rooted in liberation and community psychology, drawing on therapeutics, poetics, and activism as interconnected practices to support racialised and marginalised people. Sanah's poetry won the Outspoken Performance Prize 2019 and was shortlisted for the White Review Prize 2022; Bridport Prize 2021. Her poetry has been published in several anthologies, and featured by TED, Channel 4 and BBC. Sanah is currently writing her debut poetry collection.

Antonia Jade King

is a Devon born London based poet. Her Debut pamphlet 'She Too Is a Sailor' explores the intersections of womanhood, deconstructs concepts of being othered and family. She currently hosts Boomerang Club and is a previous Hammer & Tongue poetry slam finalist. She has featured at Poetry and Shaah and Heaux Noire and was part of Apples and Snakes Writing Room programme in 2018. She has performed at numerous events including Love Supreme festival and Rallying Cry at Battersea Arts Centre. She is currently a Barbican Young Poet.