With Dr Neville Lawrence OBE, after the commemoration of the inaugural National Stephen Lawrence Day
Performing at PositiveFest
Content Warning: Childlike explores themes of abuse
Photo by Izzy.Snapped
Through her poetry, spoken word and creative projects, Bakita explores the tensions between expectations, stereotypes, internal dialogue and social constructs.
Bakita’s has been commissioned by the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Sainsbury’s Group, University of Edinburgh, and created bespoke pieces for the inaugural National Stephen Lawrence Day, and UK AIDS Memorial anniversary. She was Poet in Resident at Positively UK’s I Am Here Festival. Bakita has performed at Latitude Festival, Wilderness Festival, Leading Routes, Manchester Pride, and was a finalist in the 2020 UN Women Feminist and Women’s Movement Action Poetry Contest. Bakita is interested in the use of arts-based methods in qualitative health research; in 2022, she delivered the Introduction to Poetic Inquiry module as part of the University of Oxford’s Qualitative Research Methods course.
Sainsbury's Group 2021 Black History Month Campaign, poem by Bakita
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