Last month Italian broadcasting networks RAI banned blackface from its stations after large amounts of protest from Afro-Italians and activists. Over the last few years, the broadcaster has aired multiple scenes of blackface, most of them from the popular show Tale e Quale. Tale e Quale sees celebrities impersonate and perform songs by other musicians…
* This body of work was created at the Bubblegum Studio with Treyvone Moosa as the recipient of our Bubblegum Invites open call. “Do you actually get laid wearing all that makeup and being that fat” – Grindr user “Not for me chunky” – Grindr User “Sorry if that hurts you but maybe try a…
“Bella, Gigi and Dua… Hamas calls for a second holocaust. CONDEMN THEM NOW”, reads the headline to a disturbing advertisement published in The New York Times this past Saturday. The advertisement which took the form of a letter to the three prominent stars ran in the main section of the newspaper and named the Hadids…
“Woke people are the funniest people I know” — a quote from a tweet I penned earlier this year in defence and reply to the ‘sensitivity’ that ‘woke’ or socially conscious people have been accused of in the past. ‘Political correctness’, ‘cancelling’ and ‘censorship’ are some of the phrases and talking points that have been…
I remember watching gossip girl in high school and having conversations with my friends theorising over who gossip girl could be, crushing over Nate Archibald and envying the lives of Manhattan’s elite. So, when a reboot was announced sometime last year, I once again began to think about if remaking a show such as Gossip…
What shocks me the most about the escalating tensions in occupied Palestine is the global silence from many international organisations. International pressure is not coming from organisations, but rather, from regular people online and in the streets. Social media has helped mobilise and call for a change so much so that in Italy dockworkers refused…
The idea of a celebrity or famous person speaking out about a social issue is not new. Public figures walk amongst us, they live amongst us and they experience life amongst us. From South Africa’s history of Apartheid and the use of theatre, performance and art to spread messages about what is happening in the…
“Feminism is a collective movement, not simply an isolated practice in which individual women engage, and thus a feminist conception of power must also include an account of solidarity” Lisa H. Schwartzman Whose feminism? What feminism? Why feminism? Those are the questions being asked and statements made through the collaborative project Feminism Ya Mang, Feminism…
Colonisers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daises. I want to be like those post who care about the moon. Palestinians don’t see the moon from jail cells and prisons It’s so beautiful, the moon. They’re so beautiful, the flowers. Extract from Fuck Your Lecture…
Trigger warning: this article contains mention and discussion of gender based violence Just shy of a year ago, President Cyril Ramaphosa stated in a national address that South Africa was facing not one, but two pandemics. The second pandemic he was alluding to was in reference to the country’s long and ongoing fight against gender…
“Why did men stop singing and crying in the rain? Let’s bring that back”. That is a common rhetorical question and statement towards some of the current popular music, and particularly a reaction to some of the lyrics and songs that men in R&B sing today. Yes, it’s nostalgic yearning for a time past but…
I remember my first encounter with an internet troll during my early Twitter days when I was called a “dumb bitch” because I had tweeted my desire to marry a member of the boy band One Direction. The troll went on to remind me that because of my race and religion, that would never be…
