Jade LB

Jade LB is an award-winning author from Hackney.

In the early 2000’s chapters of a story started to appear on the blog site Piczo, and suddenly it went viral.

Keisha the Sket was well known for being sexually explicit and violent, despite Jade having no sexual

experience at the time of writing. Suddenly Jade stopped writing and left the story on a cliffhanger.

Fifteen years later she was approached by Stormzy’s book imprint, Merky Books, to publish the original

and re-write the story as a novel.

Both the original and the ‘Revisited’ offer a brilliant insight into young love in the housing estates of

London. And both versions also have a tenderness and maturity as we follow a deceptively smart young

girl navigating her late teenage years.

In this episode, we discuss the nuances of young black girlhood, art as politics, and the toll that Jade's unique situation took on her own mental health how she now feels about

things from a more mature perspective.