Every time one of these dating shows wraps up, we sing the same woes! Why do these casting directors include these beautiful and diverse Black women in their shows only to humiliate them and their search for love? The problematic portrayal of Black women on reality TV dating shows has been a point of concern…
“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…
Just after midnight, on 1st August 1981, the Music Television channel (MTV) was born and premiered on American screens. MTV, headed by the executive, Robert W. Pittman at the time, premiered with its first-ever video, “Video Killed the Radio” Star by The Buggles and with the words “Ladies and Gentlemen, Rock n Roll”, the world…
In a Good Morning Vogue segment, titled At Home With Kim Kardashian – The End of An Era, Vogue contributing editor Jonathan van Meter refers to Kim Kardashian as “one of the authors of social media”. This is virtually undeniable, Kim Kardashian and her sisters have a combined following of over 700 million and that’s…
Trigger warning: this article contains discussions of body shaming and fatphobia Nay not once did I ever imagine myself writing about the Kardashians…Yet, here I am. I’m trying to find some kind of redeeming solace in the fact that as much as this train of thought/writing is about the Kardashians, it’s also essentially not about…
At worst, trans men and women are dangerous and at best, they are harmless but laughable. “Disclosure” explores how closely representation is tangled up with notions of glamour, beauty, desirability and evaluative standards as well as race and class. One of the ways this is demonstrated is through the movie “Boys Don’t Cry” – a biographical dramatisation…
Britain has given us some of the most rubbish reality TV. And I mean rubbish in the best way. The UK has brought us cultural gems like Geordie Shore, Big Brother and The Great British Bakeoff. The British have, in many ways, picked up what American reality TV left behind: keeping some of the grit…
