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- ↑ Joe Williams, Art exhibition highlights difficulties facing LGBT South Asians on the eve of Diwali, Pink News, 10 November 2015. Accessed 16 August 2020.
- ↑ Nigel Barlow, Sixty artists, musicians and other creatives awarded £500 each to help create Greater Manchester's COVID-19 cultural archive, About Manchester, 17 April 2020. Accessed 16 August 2020.