“gay men should continue making being gay their whole personality as long as we are still being jailed n fckin killed in countries for it.” Tweet by musician Lil Nas X. Lil Nas X refers to it as a pretence when people ignore the fact that homophobia exists in the Black American community. I would…
Picture this, after having spent most of your afternoon busy with extracurricular activities or afterschool sports, you head back home, rush through your homework, only taking a break to take a big gulp of the ice-cold Oros you’ve poured for yourself. You rush through to the living room, turning over the cushions looking for the…
The writer Grafton Tanner argues that as the culture industry voraciously strip-mines ideas from the past, musicians respond by creating even weirder versions of earlier styles. Artists wildly mix genres and musical eras, expressing the social dislocation of living in a society where the line between the real and the online seems to grow hazier…
“A visual dissertation, a meditation on time, place, memory and personal history; amalgamating the passage through life and dreams, bridging philosophy, politics and prose. A reflection of my being in abstract form.” – Nkhensani Mkhari on his work. A dreamy reality caked with attention-halting architectural shots, documentary images and glamorous fashion depictions come together to…
When I heard Frank Ocean’s Nostalgia Ultra for the first time in 2011, his captivating voice and dissolute lyrics were great enough. But what really made me flip out was a line on the song ‘Novacaine’ where he (or at least its protagonist) compare themselves to Stanley Kubrick. It’s a unique mind that thinks to…
