A group of non-professional writers from Hull put pen to paper to share their LGBT+ stories in this new zine and podcast project.

9. Molly Smallwood - Tinder, Tequila And Lost Hope

8. Adam Strong - Live And Let Loss

7. Michael Mann - The Elephant In The Room

6. Matt Commerford - A Black Eyed Christmas

5. Smadar Nave Magen - Odds Ratio

4. Kerrie Marsh - Dear 13 Year Old Me

3. N Thompson - Chosen By This Place

2. Daniel Cole - My White Knight

1. Foreword - Tom Wells

Audio recording to accompany the exhibition Torn at Humber Street Gallery.

Soundscape produced by Hayley Youell and Andy Seward, made from field recordings and interviews over ten years by Lee Karen Stow. 

Special thanks to Lansana Mansaray of Freetown, Sierra Leone for the song ‘I Can Be What I Want to Be’.

1.	Hiroshima, Japan, bells mark the 70th Anniversary of world’s first nuclear bombing 1945
2.	Arafa (translated by daughter Eithar), fled Darfur, Western Sudan
3.	Eman, remembers her life in Iraq
4.	Alicia, sole survivor of her family, The Holocaust, WWII
5.	Shuke, fled Ethiopia
6.	Huda, from Aleppo, Syria
7.	Birdsong and distant prayer, Choeung Ek, the ‘Killing Fields’, Cambodia
8.	Sao Lan, survivor of genocide by Khmer Rouge, Cambodia
9.	Ha Thi Mac, veteran soldier, The People’s Army of Vietnam 
10.	Safio, fled Somalia, sings ‘Somali Udiida Ceb
11.	Anon, ’Love Can’t Conquer War’, poem
12.	Jan, widow of a soldier of the first Gulf War
13.	Iris, remembers the Hull Blitz WWII
14.	Barbara, remembers the Hull Blitz WWII
15.	Maureen, remembers the Hull Blitz WWII
16.	Chiamaka, schoolgirl, reads her poem “War and Peace’
17.	Francess from Sierra Leone, reads her poem ‘I Am War!’
18.	Hiroshima, Japan, cicadas during two minutes silence, 70th Anniversary
19.	Nagasaki, Japan, two minutes’ silence at 70th Anniversary
20.	Ayak, fled South Sudan to the US
21.	Bereaved Palestinian and Israeli women bang protest signs at the separation wall, West Bank
22.	Hazar, fled Syria with her daughter across the Mediterranean Sea by boat to Greece
23.	Rainstorm in Ho Chi Minh city, formerly Saigon, Vietnam
24.	Ilhan Omar, fled Somalia - in 2016 first Somali-American Muslim legislator elected to office in US
25.	Women of Freetown, Sierra Leone, sing ‘I Can Be What I Want to Be
26.	Voices of the Hull Women’s Refugee Group
27.	Sadia, ’The Word Free’

The Sounds of TORN – Humber Street Gallery

Hull 2017

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