We need difficult women like damn — with urgency. We need difficult women like unlearning that love is always hard laboured for. Like remembering that the stakes were always high — for the stakes were always you. We need difficult women like breaking generational curses. We need difficult women like remembering we’ve always mattered. Like…
The Bolanle Austen-Peters production Collision Course begins like an action film. The shaky, handheld camerawork over the shoulder of the protagonist includes the viewer in the kidnapping that takes place in the opening scene. Olumide Johnson is ripped out of his car by the burly men of the rogue police unit, TARS. He is taken…
“The global cosmetic surgery and procedure market size was valued at USD 63.4 billion in 2021 and is projected to exhibit a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.6% from 2022 to 2030.” From grandviewresearch.com The cosmetic surgery industry has never been bigger than it is today — and though continuously debated, millions and millions…
Kylie Jenner posted a black and white image of herself and her partner Travis Scott, standing between two private planes with the caption: “you wanna take mine or yours?” This quickly sparked debate. The heat of the scandal burned hotter when an automated Twitter account that tweets and tracks the flights that celebrities take according…
Trigger warning: fatphobia, suicide ideation, and eating disorders. I remember being 11 years old and not necessarily being concerned with my relatives and why they always mentioned my weight. I was more focused on why that was such a flaw and why it didn’t make me good enough — good enough like my slimmer cousins…
A Black woman stands surrounded by what we can assume to be local Turkish people, photographing and wanting to be in pictures with her, and attempting to touch her hair. At first glance, the TikTok video of this scenario creates notions that this woman must be someone famous—someone adored. However, this is not the case;…
“No level of individual self-actualization alone can sustain the marginalized and oppressed. We must be linked to collective struggle, to communities of resistance that move us outward, into the world.” bell hooks, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery Unrestrained individualism, materialism and the misuse of concept such as self-love, have fuelled an environment…
Release ya anger, release ya mind Release ya job, release the time Release ya trade, release the stress Beyonce’s voice skates on the uncannily timely house song released this past June 2022, paralleling the idea of a “renaissance”, a big moment of change in our 2020s: The Great Resignation. The hit single featuring Big Freedia…
*Statistics mentioned all in relation to the country of South Africa* Recently, TikTok user @kimaotung sparked a conversation about marriage by framing it as social currency. She mentions and elaborates on this point by saying that younger femmes today are not as confined to the pressures of marriage as older femmes were 20 to 30…
One of the most jarring and painful taboos that exist in many societies around the world is the existence of “regretful parents”. The way parenting is regarded is that it is a beautiful thing that you will definitely enjoy and most of this rhetoric is accompanied by a very vague warning: “it’s hard”. When we…
Through bold representations of queer identity, queer Kenyan films have catapulted Kenyan cinema from the African continent and into the spotlight of the global film industry. Jim Chuchu’s Stories of Our Lives (2014) received the Teddy jury award at the Berlin International Film Festival, Wanuri Kahiu’s Rafiki (2018) was the first Kenyan feature film to…
“Dig deep and think about the messiest person you know… it’s a man isn’t it?” It has been a couple of weeks since the start of the highly anticipated Love Island UK season 8. Although the last season was a bit of a disappointment, it is obvious that the producers have gone back to their…
