Authors of Slay in Your Lane, Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke, make their fiction debut with The Offline Diaries. The book follows Adé and Shanice, two young Black girls navigating secondary school social dynamics, grief, new beginnings, and complex inner worlds expressed through a series of diary entries and social media interactions. AZ recently caught […]
Youth worker, social media maverick, and founder of Exist Loudly, Tanya Compas has teamed up with Instagram as part of their Black Perspectives initiative, inspired by Instagram’s ongoing commitment to champion and support young Black creators to grow and make a living on and off the platform. Tanya has launched Erasure; a two-day bootcamp where […]
“There’s so much in being able to write to and through a place” – Andrés N. Ordorica Andrés N. Ordorica is a Queer Latinx writer and poet whose debut collection, “At Least This I Know”, came out in January. The collection is an eclectic exploration of ideas around ancestry, belonging, nationhood, activism and queer identity. […]
Financial anxiety refers to obsessive and often debilitating fears around money. For working class people it may seem unnecessary pathological to view money worries through a medical lens as it’s something most of us are forced to come to terms with from a very young age. Coming to terms with something is not the same […]
Whether you’re one of the 27% of people who check social media first thing or (like me) you frequently find yourself at functions you have no business being at because you simply can’t resist the invitation, the fear of missing out is a feeling that most of us are familiar with. In fact, it’s one […]
The 2021 TransActual Trans Lives Survey is aptly titled Enduring the UK’s Hostile Environment. As one of this year’s largest direct surveys of the trans experience in the country, the data uncovers the abhorrent levels of discrimination faced by trans and non-binary Brits on a daily basis, as represented by nearly 700 respondents. It’s no […]
“The wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something […]
When I think back to myself as a child, I remember a confident, audacious and direct little girl. I had no issues calling out my elders, singing my own praises or being center-stage in front of a large audience. When I compare that to who I am now- someone who feels self-conscious promoting their work […]
ASOS have recently teamed up with LGBTQ+ youth charity, Exist Loudly to launch a limited-edition collection through their exclusive COLLUSION brand. This is the first global brand partnership for Exist Loudly, which was founded by Tanya Compas. As a youth worker, content creator and champion of queer, Black communities, Tanya wanted to create an organisation […]
“It’s about the history of us.” In an interview, K Bailey Obazee describes a core principle of PRIM, the platform she founded to archive and amplify inclusive Black storytelling. As a queer Black British woman and multi-faceted creative, K was dissatisfied with only having limited access to narratives she could relate to and says: “If […]
