A FLY Girl’s Guide To University: Being a Woman of Colour at Cambridge and Other Institutions of Elitism and Power Robin Yassin-Kassab New and selected Poems by

New and selected Poems by Chris Searle

He has an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University (2008) and is currently researching for a PhD

Informed by

exploring what it means to hold down a job when all the odds seem to be stacked against you

A FLY Girl’s Guide To University: Being a Woman of Colour at Cambridge and Other Institutions of Elitism and Power Robin Yassin-Kassab New and selected Poems byToni Morrison once said, If theres a book you want to read, but it hasnt been written yet, then you must write it. In 2016 four friends wrote the book they wish theyd had as 18 year old women of colour going to study in the elite academic institution of Cambridge University. And what a book! Wonderful, fiery, radical and brave it uses multiple voices and forms such as memoir, polemic, poetry, critical approaches to document their experiences as women