Despite what western society seems to believe, transgender and non-binary people have existed for centuries in communities all over the world. Looking at the history of transgender and non-binary people in non-western communities not only highlights the fact that gender non-conformance is far from a modern issue, but also underlines the often-erased identities of transgender […]
We’ve all been to a museum. Being shown around by an enthusiastic white male who knows about all the artifacts that the Museum stores. Artifacts from different parts of the world, collected by European ‘explorers.’ Explorers who set sail to discover a new world not ‘looters or invaders’, just explorers. Gifting their kings and queens […]
“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 […]
There are a multitude of important Black History landmarks dotted throughout London. Here is a run through of some of the locations you should know about this Black History Month (and beyond). Brixton Black Cultural Archives – Founded by activist Len Garrison in 1981, the centre moved to it’s Brixton base in 2014. The archive […]
Those who belong to marginalised communities are probably familiar with the (often infuriating) retort that ‘things are better now than they were!’ And for the most part this is objectively true; industrialised slavery is now a thing of the past (and, if you didn’t know, we just had the first black American president); the battle […]
