Covert / Handmade / Made by Hand

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ARTWORK (Front Cover) Shasta Hanif Ali My Mother’s Urdu dressmaking design book Zita Holbourne 05 Homemade, A Way to Resist Snehal Amembal 07 Gaantche Hongwei Bao 09 Last Winter in Beijing Hongwei Bao 10 Hummingbird Hongwei Bao 11 How to Make Tea in Chinese New Year Dean Atta 13 Queer Intentions Joyoti Grech Cato 14 A Summer Night’s QTIPOC Fable,

Stanmer Park Jasmine Sharif 16 The Sheikh ’s Delights

ARTWORK Zita Holbourne 25 Made With Love Clare Serugo 26 Here/There/Home Glasgow, King Street. 27 Titilayo Farukuoye Joyoti Grech Cato 28 Gitali

Be Manzini 31 These Hands Seema Kapila 33 From the Equator to the Meridian Line

(Four Shor t Poems) Jenny Arach 35 Bark Tree Dress Marina Murphy 39 Made in His Image Sunita Crowley 47 Shakti: Drawing a Fading Tree Nina Bhirangi-Bishop 48 Rites Of Passage ARTWORK

Zita Holbourne 56 Gir ijan Tribal Mountain Women Hannah Collisson 57 Dear Jessie

Sean Wai Keung 62 A Broken Villanelle Celebrating

Our First Week Living Together Umi Sinha 63 Shivrani’s Pot ARTWORK

Zita Holbourne 64 Black Women in Nature Series: Blossom Heather Pearson 65 My Grandmother S.D. Chatter jee 67 Granny’s Blanket