“Notting Hill is a very unique community where many people from the West Indies live, it is a community born out of resistance to a series of backwards attacks from the police… It has something that was located somewhere in the stench of British colonialism. His masters again. In defending themselves against an attack, a […]
Grief is the emotion that we experience after a loss, but that loss doesn’t necessarily have to be a person. We can grieve ourselves, our autonomy, our identity, our ancestors, our sense of self-worth, our financial stability, our homes, any person who has distanced from us, or disowned us for who we are and how […]
A couple of weeks ago, Issa Rae did a hilarious skit for Saturday Night Live, in which she tried to explain HBO’s Lovecraft Country to a group of friends, leaving them bewildered and disinterested. The skit really hit home for me, as I’ve spent the last two months justifying my affinity for the show that’s […]
For as long as I can recall when asked to discuss family or asked to draw a picture of my family at school, my response was always met with awkward intrigue. I would draw my sister, and two glamorous women, one white, the other mixed-race and watch the cogs of the polite middle-class mind try […]
As I scrolled through the modern-day newsletter, otherwise known as the bird-app (or Twitter), I came across a link to a Google Doc titled ‘Am I A Lesbian Masterdoc”. This document, which has been widely shared amongst queer youth, highlights the concept of compulsory heterosexuality or ‘comphet’. It particularly leans into the ways women and […]
This March, best friends Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata launched It’s a Continent; a podcast “passion project” exploring African history, with aims to dispel shallow perceptions of the continent and its people. Humble in their ambitions, neither woman imagined the podcast would gain as much traction as it has, in just seven months. “To even […]
By any standard imaginable 2020 has been a difficult year in the world, but for many people stuck at home RuPaul’s Drag Race has been a consistent spirit lifter to look forward to every week. The US reality competition show puts fourteen drag queens from around the nation through runway presentations and challenges to determine […]
On Friday 23 October I was privileged enough to see a staged reading of …cake at Theatre Peckham by the lauded babirye bukilwa (Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020 finalist and Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2019 shortlist). I use the word privileged not in a hyperbolic sense, rather reverentially I felt like I was watching the […]
October 1st marks the beginning of Black History Month – a month where the Black British community celebrates its triumphs and rich history within the allotted time of 30 days. Companies and schools may feign solidarity and interest and just like Pride Month, as soon as a new moon rises, away go the rainbows and […]
