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THE WORKING CLASS COLLECTIVE
We are a small group of working-class people who have recognised through our own life experiences that, to be working-class in Britain means we are in a position of ‘lack.’
We lack the networks, the resources, the know-how, and sometimes the confidence to engage with places, spaces and people in the institutions of publishing, academia, NGOs, the creative industries and any other ‘official space’ which actively keeps us out.
Working-Class people are black, white and brown, we are of every gender and none if we want to be, we are able-bodied and also disabled, we are Jewish, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, and Atheists – sometimes we are Jedi’s, and Witches: but one thing is for certain, ‘The Working Class Collective’ is for all that know and feel they are working-class - and also for those who ally with us.
We aim to create a platform for working-class creative people and those that also believe and want to work with us on ensuring that working-class stories are being told by working-class people and respected by wider and connected industries.
LOCKDOWN DIARIES OF THE WORKING CLASS
In March 2020, like the rest of the world, Lisa Mckenzie was fixated on breaking news – a pandemic had hit us and we were locked down and isolated from our lives and each other. The narrative was already being set by those with power and wealth and influence – they would decide who the victims, the heroes, and the villains would be.
The Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class was born in those early months on the first lockdown in 2020 - the voices, the lives and experiences of working-class people would not be narrated for them – 47 people answered a call out to write diaries, six artists interpreted those words through their art, while others supported the process. Seven hundred people backed the idea through a crowdfunding campaign – the result was a book titled ‘Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class’ and a collective was born – a working-class collective committed to telling the stories and offering support to other working-class people who know that the narrative about them is wrong.
March 2022
Hardback
15 x 21 cm, 220 Pages
Words & Illustrations
Custom Pink Ribbon
Designed by Focus Group
If you have a project, idea or cause we can support then get in touch.
contact@workingclasscollective.co.uk