After the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 and the first year of Covid-19 lockdowns, Volume 08 may be characterised by a sort of collection exhaustion. Writers including Stu Hennigan, Elizabeth Chakrabarty, Victoria Gosling and Lisa O’Hare are deeply honest and reflective as the world confronts issues of identity, racism, prejudice and trauma. They write in response to work by Oscar Ukonu, Judy Moore (above) and María Victoria Rodriguez.