Featuring: Jade LB
Chair: Lemara Lindsay-Prince
Cinema 1, Level -2 (2 mins from Level 0)
Time: 4pm – 5pm
Before viral storytelling had a name, there was Keisha the Sket.
In 2005, a 13-year-old Jade LB changed the game — serialising her bold, raw, text- speak story on Piczo and MSN. It spread like wildfire through Black British teenage circles, long before social media, long before publishing was ready.
Now, 20 years on, Keisha the Sket is more than a cult classic — it’s a landmark in Black British literature. Join author Jade LB and original editor Lemara Lindsay-Prince (founder of Studio Lemara, formerly #Merky Books) as they reflect on the story’s underground beginnings, its powerful 2021 republication with Stormzy’s imprint, and the cultural shift it ignited.
Together, they’ll explore voice, legacy, and what it means to create space for working-class Black girls to tell their stories — loudly, and on their own terms.
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