That night, ‘Priscilla Wig’ was one of the top trends on Twitter, and The Daily Mail were quick to point out that viewers were “genuinely baffled” by Priscilla’s magical ability to wear a wig of a different colour
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While the way she treated Mike could be interpreted as her following her intuition, Leanne could have gone about it without being rude or dismissive.
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Once again Africa is used as a tool for the self-discovery of white characters while the African characters take the backseat
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“…international films must jump through a myriad of hoops to gain recognition by the Academy. This unrealistic expectation suggests that countries should conceal English speaking aspects of their culture and history.”
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We’ve all experienced the subtle feeling of productivity guilt. We take a break from a task to scroll on social media, only to be bombarded with non stop highlights of people’s success.
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Edinburgh University's Welcome Week is set to be blessed by the presence of the number one trouble maker of this season of Love Island, Maura Higgins!
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Woke dreams and feel good memes
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Shelby Lorman examines and dissects a society that readily celebrates men for displaying basic decency.
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The unrelenting vulnerability of Dev Hynes’ album Negro Swan celebrates and extends the meaning of blackness beyond stereotypes. He challenges expectations of beauty, masculinity and other constructs that attempt to limit the way people take up space.
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Many see the issue of representation as a superficial longing tangled up in identity politics. However, lack of representation has astonishing impacts when it comes to positions of power; how will the needs of a certain social group be met if people with their experience have no say in politics?
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This was an animated collage I made using the code x rookie website.
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The story of colourism is deeply anti-feminist. It is the story of femininity diminishing with skin darkness, romantic rejection by men both black and white and a society that denies women of colour agency and fullness of emotion.
Lanaire Aderemi is a writer with an introspective and empathetic gaze that gives her work a universal quality, despite her poetry collection mainly engaging with her personal story.
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Mental health has always been crucial to the way I view myself as an individual, as well as how I relate to the world. Furthermore, I see my mental health journey as the changes in my psychological state over time with the good the bad and everything in between.
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The poem explores the fleeting solace offered by my bed from downturns in my mental health as well as the way in which social media affects me in terms of the overload of information as well as the unhealthy comparison it catalyses.
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…the book almost reads as an appeal to Nigerian parents, including herself, as to why they should be willing to change their 'traditional' perceptions of what it means to raise a female child.
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And it's not just about calling yourself a feminist, it's abut challenging limited perceptions of womanhood in conversations where it could be brushed aside.
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Slay In Your Lane is a book, which for me, a black woman, felt long overdue. Before I read it about a week ago, I had never come across a self-help book that fully addressed the intrinsic difficulties that come with being a black woman.
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