What Every Privileged Person Should Know About Social Responsibility
What Is Privilege and Why It Matters It’s one of the hardest things to recognise, being a privileged person. A veil that shadows your vision. It keeps you in La la land, unable to acknowledge the suffering of those who don’t carry the same opportunity. What Is Privilege and Why It Matters It’s one of […]
The Weight of Colourism: Being the ugliest sister
The Black Sheep, Literally That’s because I’m the darkest. In fact, I’m the darkest in my family. My mum and older sister are lovely light skin, almost yellow, my little sister and brother are a gorgeous shade of milk chocolate. My dad as well has smooth brown skin. Then there’s me; I’m saddled with dark […]
Female Sexuality Unleashed: Is Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s WAP Basically Porn?
Why Female Sexuality in Music Continues to Threaten the Status Quo The hit song ‘WAP’ is controversial as it threatens the natural order of music because female sexuality is explicitly stated. The norm of the music industry is male artists selling record that are enveloped in sex and dominating women. A famous example is The […]
We’re so diverse. Look there’s a dark one!
The Pressure to Assimilate in a White-Dominated World We live in a world where assimilation is equal to survival. To be someone, you must be like everyone. However, everyone refers to the perceived ‘majority’ group, the white people. How is one to assimilate to the white culture when one is not white. Therefore, you are […]
‘I’m not racist, I just don’t date Asians’: Problems with Racial Preferences.
Well, it’s just a preference, isn’t it? I mean, there’s nothing wrong in not finding a race attractive. …Honey, who lied to you? Your ‘racial preference’ is built on stereotypes, but you haven’t realised it. Have you ever asked yourself why you don’t date this race? Why they seem so unattractive to you based on their […]
Book Review: Stay with Me By Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Blurb Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage–after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures–Yejide is still not […]
‘But It’s just hair’: Understanding Black HAIRstory
I was 10 and addicted to the burning feeling of the relaxer in my hair. The hairstylist would look at me as she massaged the chemical into my scalp, saying ‘tell me when it burns, my dear’. I’d nod but secretly relished the tingling in my scalp. That meant it was working. So I would […]
Book Review: You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Blurb: Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. She isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the home of a celebrity chef, and a curator who […]
Inside Out 2: Joy vs Anxiety, An Endless Battle
There is something macabre about these Disney/Pixar shows and how they force unsuspecting adults to face the very thing they run to these light movies to forget. Inside Out 2 paints an eerily close picture of my inner self’s battle between Joy and Anxiety. And it shook me. From early school days, a path is […]
‘Nice Guys’ SHOULD Finish Last
On Tuesday 9th of July, 3 women (Carol Hunt, 61, Hannah Hunt, 28, and Louise Hunt, 25) were found close to death in their home in Hertfordshire. Unfortunately, they did not survive. The perpetrator of this vicious crime tied them up and shot them with a crossbow before fleeing their home, to be captured on […]