Book to movie adaptations have existed for a long time, walking hand in hand since the late 1890s. Some of the biggest films were based on novels, including The Godfather (1976), Forrest Gump (1994), The Harry Potter franchise (2001 — 2011) and so many more. The experience of reading a book is a special one,…
The topic of mental health infiltrating the general public is a sort of new phenomenon. When you think about the initial founding basis of the idea of mental health, you run into religious foundation histories where being mentally ill meant that you were demonically possessed or being punished by God. The stigmatisation of mental health…
An outpour of stories about the danger of the News cafe restaurant in Woodmead, Johannesburg have come out recently. This, following a tweet expressing someone allegedly witnessing a possible kidnapping related to human trafficking of two women at the restaurant — supposedly with the assistance of some of the News Cafe staff. A few days…
Coi Leray, an American rapper and singer, has spent the last few months online going back and forth with her father, Benzino — an American television personality. A sort of traumatic experience develops right in front of our eyes through tense and eruptive online exchanges between the pained father and daughter pair. It is uncomfortable…
“Abortion is healthcare!” “Abortion is healthcare!” “Abortion is healthcare!” The chants coming from large crowds echo around the supreme court in Washington, DC. It is late at night in the District of Columbia as pained groups of people hold up boards with messages such as “My body, my choice” and “Bans off my body”, in…
Elon Reeve Musk FRS, 50 years old, is a billionaire entrepreneur and investor. Elon Musk is the co founder and CEO of the sustainable energy car company Tesla and the founder and CEO of SpaceX, a company that is focused on space transportation technology. The billionaire is the product architect and the chief engineer at…
*Trigger Warning: this article includes mentions of violence *This piece aims to comment on the on-going trial from a socio-political and historical perspective It has been 2 years since internationally famous rap star Megan Thee Stallion expressed the alleged shooting of her foot by R&B artist Tory Lanez. It has been almost 3 years since…
*Trigger Warning: this article has mentions of suicide, sexual assault and pedophilia On the 20th of April, Heavy K, a famous South African DJ and music producer took to Twitter to call out infamous South African podcaster Mac G for allegedly misinterpreting and twisting his words in order for Heavy K to seem like he…
Wesley Morris: She was exercising a kind of power that we recognise in men who we call ‘assholes’ — and she just didn’t care whether or not my feelings were hurt. It was just kind of fun to sit there for 10 minutes and think about what other women assholes do we know?…It was a…
As digital expression swells, human beings globally are able to engage in copious amounts of discourse about identity, sexuality and relationships. One could even argue that in the last twenty to thirty years, the access to digital information has created a new shape for how people interact with identity, sexuality and their relationships. The social…
A few months ago in January of 2022, Ari Lennox, a well known and admired US R&B singer made the decision to accept some interviews from South Africa, the first one being with a big South African podcast personality, Mac G. The events from the interview — that resulted in Lennox’s decision — turned awry…
It should come as no surprise that in an era where anything is up for monetisation people have turned moments of their personal and private lives into jobs. Romantic relationships have become commodified on social media with the rise of successful and lucrative YouTube channels and social media accounts centred around couples. In commodifying their…
