By Precious Agbabiaka I remember just over a year ago being completely captivated by Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade. The scenes belonging to the chapters “Hope” and “Redemption” from the hour long masterpiece brought me so much joy and renewed sense of pride as I bore witness to black girls and women, including some familiar faces,… Read More
Patriarchy and The Idealisation Of Motherhood
Jendella Benson challenges the idealisation of motherhood Read More
Beyoncé and Resistance
by Désirée Wariaro In the autumn of 2001, photos of the stoned, dirty-looking white guys in the Strokes are plastered across my bedroom wall and I brag about getting great tickets to see their sold out show. In art class the TV is on mute while we paint and glance with teenaged disbelief at the… Read More
When the white gaze is automatically seen as informed opinion
by Shane Thomas What do you know about the Large Hadron Collider? Personally, I know it’s a science thing, and… that’s about it. So what would you think if I declared I was going to talk at length about the LHC in this piece? You would be entitled to think me asinine, and wonder how on… Read More
The Unbearable White Ignorance of Annie Lennox
by Zoé Samudzi After her October interview with Tavis Smiley, I no longer think of Annie Lennox solely as the edgy, cool, and philanthropic Eurythmics frontwoman. I now see her as an embodiment of white ignorance. On her new album Nostalgia, Lennox covers “Strange Fruit,” a song popularised by Billie Holiday in 1939 that describes,… Read More
Are you down for brown?
by Farzana Rahman As a dark-complexioned, brown, South Asian Muslim woman, at any one point in my prolific dating career, I’ve had to deal with iterations of the following conversation: (Where X denotes men I have dated, and Y = me). X: “I didn’t think you would talk to me!” Y: “Why?” X: “Cos you’re… Read More