‘Let that stage be your stepping stone, not your tombstone.’ Katori Hall’s masterpiece, P-Valley, moved me by it’s challenge to the omnipresent white gaze. P-Valley is set in the sweltering Mississippi Delta; the dancers of the strip club ‘The Pynk’ work the poles and return to Chucalissa – a crumbling city, facing relentless gentrification efforts […]
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 […]
Atmospheric tones, lyrics lacquered in metaphor and pausing percussion expose Oladokun’s sonic experience of love and its differentials. From her platonic appreciation of her friends in “If You Got a Problem” where she narrates the soul-binding exercise of subsuming our friend’s difficulties to lighten their load; to the latter lovelorn ballad “Blink Twice” where her […]
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 […]
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 […]
