A conversation recently circulated on the mean — yet culturally influential — streets of black diasporic twitter: “I can’t lie, the galys have lost it recently”, social media content creator and influencer Chunkz says to his friends, “it’s the way people are speaking nowadays broski wallahi”, he continues. “I can’t even have a conversation”, says…
In 2015, a little known Twitter user named A’Ziah-Monae King posted the first words of a viral 148-tweet saga: “Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this here bitch fell out???????? It’s kind of long but full of suspense”. The then 19-year-old, also known as Zola, was a waitress at the American food…
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…
Cancel culture has gone from an inside joke starting on Black Twitter to a global movement that aims to hold public figures accountable for their actions. Cancel culture like many other movements does not come without debate, with those who are against it sharing their belief that we now live in a culture of snitching,…
Bee Diamondhead is a name so molded into the South African fashion scene that it is almost difficult to distinguish the two as separate entities. During her rise in fashion as a stylist, editor and creative director there has been a great deal of media coverage on her background and work. In this article we…
