Back in the nineties, noughties, and even the 2010s, I talked about my hair like it was a burden. “It’s frizzy; coarse; hard to control; takes ages to straighten.” I was achingly jealous of friends with straight (or straightenable) hair who didn’t spend half a day washing theirs. This pain was exacerbated further by language […]
At this point, it’s almost impossible not to associate summer with Love Island. This year was no different. We all waited with anticipation for the chance to live vicariously through the chosen tributes – sorry islanders. Now 6 weeks in and nearing the finale it’s safe to say that (some) of the current cohort have […]
Uganda’s LGBT+ community suffered yet another setback in May when lawmakers approved a bill to further outlaw same-sex relations. At Pride Uganda, we see this as a dangerous development that will only serve to fuel homophobic sentiment and increase violence against our community. The Sexual Offences Bill was approved by parliament on 3rd May and now awaits […]
Ironically, this article starts with a celebrity news hook. In February, rapper and poet Noname explained her refusal to feature on the soundtrack of the film ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’, about activist and Black Panther Party leader, Fred Hampton. Pointing out that the film missed out on Hampton’s anti-imperialist politics, as well as the […]
June was named Pride Month in remembrance of the Stonewall Riots of June 1969 and it promptly became a month for LGBT+ people to exist loudly and visibly in all shades of the rainbow, across the whole world. President Bill Clinton was the first President to recognize the month of June as the ‘Gay and […]
Family life can be said to provide young children with the parameters of self-consciousness. A child exposed to one dominant culture comes to consciousness with an idea of who constitutes his or her family and uses this knowledge to situate themselves within their local world. For ‘British South Asians’ or ‘Indian diaspora’ youth with cross-cultural […]
When I first heard Sertraline Gang, my first thought was yes, this captures the exact combination of unhinged restlessness and abject depression I feel during lockdown. It was an exhilarating listen, its relentless and strangely uplifting rhythm combined with heartbreaking lyrics like “I can’t yet confess the duress of being a homeless gay kid/ I’ve […]
The summer of 2020 saw the Black Lives Matter revolution rightfully become the biggest civil rights movement in history. This was by no means a touch of chance. The pandemic didn’t just force us into our homes, but the sudden lack of daily distractions forced us into our minds. Despite the devastation, the majority of […]
Nana Duncan, 29 and Rose Frimpong, 30 are best friends who make up the Two Twos Podcast. They became fast friends after meeting in 2015 at a rooftop party, fast forward to 2021 and the duo have successfully made a transition from creating content on Youtube, to creating an enlightening, insightful and informative podcast, with […]
My family and I visited Guinea-Bissau – our home country – for the long holidays on most years. We would spend three weeks in the family home that, at the time, was really more of a bachelor pad, reconnecting with everything that we had left behind. In those days there was rarely any electricity in […]
