Childish Gambino: Merging, Minutes & Music Videos
Throughout his decorated career, Donald Glover’s work has become synonymous with blurring the lines between different creative mediums....
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Naila Aroni
- Jul 21, 2020
- 5 min
Ego Death: I May Destroy You Ending Explained
TW: sexual assault and detailed spoilers “We are the generation that decided, if you won’t look at us, we’ll look at ourselves.” -...
Akachi Priscilla Mbakwe
- Jul 18, 2020
- 3 min
Love & Hip Hop: Top 10 Songs
Love & Hip Hop is infamous for being a show about artists, who seem to never release music. If you’ve ever watched the show, you know...
Paula Abu
- Jul 15, 2020
- 6 min
It's The Little Things That May Destroy You
So I lied and said I wasn’t going to write this article last week because episode 10 quite frankly left me speechless. After the words “I...
Tochi Imo
- Jul 3, 2020
- 4 min
The Duo Creating A Space For Arts And Live Entertainment in Croydon
Earlier this week I virtually sat down with Makeda Bennett-Amparbeng and Jade Reid, the two Black women who have created Setting Da...
Karen Chalamilla
- Jun 28, 2020
- 5 min
Watchmen HBO: Centering Our Imagination
Watchmen is greatly characterised by the way it fluidly moves between the past and its futuristic present, wedging the audience’s current...
Naila Aroni
- Jun 23, 2020
- 4 min
How To 'Eat The Rich' in Four Films
What was once a radical statement by French philosopher John Rousseau has now found its way to the most bizarre corners of the interwebs....
Ilayda McIntosh
- Jun 22, 2020
- 5 min
Insecure Season 4 Review: Lowkey Triggered
Issa Rae’s brilliant comedy-drama, Insecure, made a return in April earlier this year, coinciding with the start of lockdown around the...
Paula Abu
- Jun 16, 2020
- 6 min
Insecure Finale Review: S4 E10 'Lowkey Lost'
I want to start out by saying how excellent this season of Insecure has been. Barring the lack of storyline for our beloved Kelli (season...
Oratile Mogoje
- Jun 14, 2020
- 4 min
Season Review: Blood & Water
If you’ve been on social media over the last week or two, you’d know Blood and Water is the recent Netflix original set in South African...
Ope Oduwole
- Jun 9, 2020
- 3 min
Insecure Review: S4 E9 'Lowkey Trying'
Welcome to my TED talk on the Penultimate episode of Season 4. *Pauses for awkward applause*. The theme centred around the idea of...
Akachi Priscilla Mbakwe
- Jun 2, 2020
- 3 min
Insecure Review: S4 E8 'Lowkey Happy'
‘Lowkey Happy’ was written by Natasha Rothwell and that’s the reason for it’s brilliance. The episode flowed with an ease that last...
Olivia Popp
- May 28, 2020
- 5 min
The Half Of It: Beyond Queering The Romcom
Alice Wu’s new queer coming-of-age film, The Half of It (released May 1 on Netflix), follows two high school seniors -- queer booksmart...
Sarah Oladele
- May 26, 2020
- 3 min
Insecure Review: S4 E7 ‘Lowkey Trippin’
For those of you who have been defending Molly’s actions, particularly those towards Issa, it seems like your fave is finally reaping a...
Karen Chalamilla
- May 19, 2020
- 3 min
Insecure Review: S4 E6 ‘Lowkey Done’
“Little girl be fair, show yourself care” [as seen on Issa’s wall] from ‘Girl Blue’ by Stevie Wonder Apologies are in order. In my review...
Paula Abu
- May 17, 2020
- 4 min
The One About Viola Davis
My first run in with the force that is Viola Davis was in the Academy Award nominated 2011 picture The Help. I was a 13-year-old...
Alexander Kloss
- May 16, 2020
- 4 min
Why We Can’t Stop Scrolling: Netflix’s Inescapable Allure
Like almost every deprived sports fan these days, I’m avidly keeping up with The Last Dance—the Netflix documentary about Michael...
Paula Abu
- May 12, 2020
- 4 min
Insecure Review: S4 E5 'Lowkey Movin' On'
I promise I wanted to approach this article being able to defend Molly even a little bit. I genuinely had hope that last episode would be...
Naila Aroni
- May 8, 2020
- 5 min
Master Manipulators & Sadistic Sociopaths:
interrogating the misogyny behind iconic female villains “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster....
Ope Oduwole
- May 5, 2020
- 4 min
Insecure Review: S4 E4 'Lowkey Losin it'
Gather round. You're most likely wondering why I've brought you all together. We need to discuss the lack of character development in...
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