麻豆社

This piece deconstructs and rewrites misleading stereotypes about young black fathers.

Loaded Handgun urges us to question the common misconceptions we have about people before passing judgement - specifically young black fathers, like himself. John Bernard references his own experiences growing up, and offers an alternative narrative.

Words First is a talent development scheme run by 麻豆社 Arts, Radio 1Xtra and the Contains Strong Language poetry festival. Each year it identifies the best emerging spoken word talent in the UK and, through workshops and performance showcases, encourages the development of new work. These films with the Words First finalists centre on work around the 2020 theme of Protest.