When Queerness Is Not Enough
The aestheticisation of white queerness and its limitations, held against the glimmering and hopeful potential held by Black queer community in allowing growth and freedom.
Make Gays Horny Again: The Desexualisation of Queerness
If an absence of queer antagonism is only possible when queer lived experience reflects the monogamous, nuclear family, then an absence of queer antagonism is impossible. If to be queer is encompassed in name alone, then to be queer in behaviour is to be further marginalised.
International Women’s Day Spotlight on It’s a Continent Podcast: Challenging misconceptions and making African history accessible
With a touch of shade, satire and sauce, It’s a Continent Podcast shares rich and bountiful histories from each of the different nations, reminding people that Africa is not a country, it’s a continent. Co-hosts Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, who celebrate their first anniversary this week, have already risen into the rankings as one of Spotify’s Top 25 History podcasts.
My Independence: ‘Out of Many Londoners, One British Jamaican’
On 6/08/62 Jamaica freed itself from of colonial rule and became an independent nation. Kaeshelle discusses what Independence means to her.
Broken Records: Racism, Violence and The Police
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, our social feeds have been inundated with images of distressed Black bodies. The knee of the state (exercising its usual lethal force) was once again spreading across the internet like wildfire.