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Ope Oduwole
Jul 25, 20208 min read
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....
Naila Aroni
Jul 21, 20205 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20206 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20206 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20204 min read
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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