By: Zara Antonia April 8, 2021May 18, 2021 EMPOWERMENT, FEMINISMbame, black lives matter, employment, featured, FEMINISM, progression, women, workLeave a Comment

Black Women Breaking Race and Gender Barriers At Work

It’s no secret to us Black women that we are absent at work. Operation Black Vote found that in 1000 U.K. organisations, only 3.5% of Black people were at the top of a company, with 12.9% in the general workplace. Less than a quarter of these positions are held by Black women. It’s enough to…

By: Nadia Kamies April 1, 2021May 18, 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, WORLD ISSUESCape Colony, creolisation, Dutch slave trade, featured, heritage, Indian Ocean slavery, slavery, South AfricaLeave a Comment

A History of Silence

Featured Image: Corbis/Getty Images As a young child growing up in Cape Town, I knew that the minstrel carnival my parents took us to each new year and the songs sung by the Malay choirs had something to do with slavery. It certainly wasn’t something that we learned about during history lessons at school and…

By: Christina Pan March 22, 2021May 18, 2021 CULTURE, OPINION, POLITICSfeaturedLeave a Comment

Asian Women Are Not Your Punchline

Featured Illustration: Phung Banh When I was eight, I visited my relatives in China for the first time in five years. I’d gone with my entire family. Much of the trip lives in hazy memory, born out of blazing summer days and in sweltering tresses of palm trees. It feels almost psychedelic now, looking back…

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Racial Abuse Towards Black Footballers: A Country’s Passion Reveals Its Bigotry

By: Delali Amegah July 11, 2021July 15, 2021

OPINION, POLITICS, WORLD ISSUESfootball, racial abuse, racism in the ukLeave a Comment

Featured Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images, A mural of the England forward Marcus Rashford was defaced in Manchester. On Sunday the 11th of July 2021, every football fan anticipated with excitement the last game of the UEFA European Football Championship 2020: England vs Italy. My English friends kept bragging about every English win so far (as…

Emergence

By: tembotones July 10, 2021July 11, 2021

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As the sun rises, so do they: the embodiment of wonder, curiosity, play, intuition, and magic. The spirits that lie within the natural elements teach us to embrace creation and creativity, magnetize our joy and release all fear. Photography & Creative Direction: @tembotones Muse: @iameleazar MUA: @lastlookswitherica Wardrobe: @ajovang Jewels: @eyeofiris

POV: The Young Asian American Experience

By: Ariana Bhargava July 9, 2021July 11, 2021

CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT, MENTAL HEALTHLeave a Comment

How much do you know about the Asian American students in your class? You’ve heard the model minority myth, the stereotypes, the “toxic” parental pressure, and probably even witnessed the statistical success of the Asian American student. But how much of it is really true? And which of these perceptions are detrimental to the Asian…

In Conversation with Vijay Sarathy, Visual Artist and Photographer

By: Tejashree Murugan July 8, 2021July 11, 2021

CULTURE, THE ARTSart, Beat generation, creativity, instagram, melancholy, nature, Photographs, photography, travel, vijay sarathy, visual art, visual artistLeave a Comment

Featured Images: Vijay Sarathy Vijay Sarathy is a self-taught visual artist and photographer from Chennai, India. His work involves transforming bodies of nature to represent inner states. Your photographs depict landscapes and objects that feel tantalizingly familiar, and yet they manage to propel the viewer into a parallel universe that is infinitely more surreal and…

Voices Leak Identities: On Speaking Up

By: Nadia Kamies July 7, 2021July 11, 2021

EMPOWERMENT, FEMINISM, LIFEempowerment, imposter syndrome, public speaking, racism, role models, sexism, voices, women of colorLeave a Comment

Featured Illustration: Melissa Koby Voices leak identities, someone told me recently when I confessed to being terrified of public speaking. I had been asked to present a lecture on the cultural aspects of slavery, for an online seminar. In spite of feeling confident about the topic, I was aware of a familiar pervasive feeling of…

Hey Alexa, Play “I’m Coming Out” by Diana Ross

By: Cheyenne Ashe July 6, 2021July 11, 2021

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Featured Illustration: “Show Me as I Want to Be Seen” by Claude Cahun I’m a bisexual person. My pronouns are she/they and the more introspection I do, the more I find that I’m slowly slipping into the non-binary territory. And that’s cool but every day I wake up and face a dilemma. Do I need…

How Toxic Positivity is Counterproductive

By: Sanjana Karthik July 5, 2021July 11, 2021

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Toxic positivity can be attributed to “insincere” positivity which is detrimental to someone’s mental well-being. It is “the assumption, either by one’s self or others, that despite a person’s emotional pain or difficult situation, they should only have a positive mindset”, as Dr. Jaime Zuckerman phrased it. Examples of toxic positivity in daily phrases can…

Most Days

By: Sanaa Mirz July 4, 2021July 11, 2021

MENTAL HEALTH, POETRY & PROSELeave a Comment

Some days chase me Making me run from the Devil himself Though even the Devil doesn’t make me run as far Knowing Depression can knock my very breath away With just one thought. But some days chase me anyway Making me some nervous shell Of the confident woman I pretend to be. This strong beautiful…

Princess

By: Sanaa Mirz June 13, 2021June 17, 2021

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I wear glittering jewels around my neck Though all they remind me of Is the weight of such a sour love A love like rotten cream That curdled long ago Under the heat of your hate Of my innocent wholeness. So determined to break me In order to convince yourself The best cups to drink…