Of all the Black female tropes, the ‘mammy’ stereotype seems to most escape our attention. Being aggressive, unintelligent, ghetto, hyper-sexual,...
Banseka Kayembe & Image: Chanté Timothy
When the body positivity movement emerged on the scene in 2012, the language surrounding bodies – particularly those belonging to...
Claude Knight & Image: Daisy Doodles
Since the pandemic began, articles have appeared about women giving up ‘grooming’ and beauty standards in lockdown. This month is...
I’m going to start off by mentioning a word that’s probably going to make me lose a good portion of...
My grandma always told me that girls had one job: to look pretty. This meant she coached me to sit...
We’re hugely excited to introduce our latest collaboration; a takeover from B.G.U zine, a Tokyo-based queer, feminist zine and collective,...
Shame was the strongest emotion I felt throughout my entire pregnancy and during the beginnings of motherhood. It isn’t so...
Erin Smithers & Image: Molly Hankinson
Outside of the South Asian community and diaspora, Navratri – Nav meaning nine, and Ratri meaning night – is one...
Sharlene Gandhi, Namitha Aravind & Image: Tinuke Fagborun
As an activist for the LGBTQIA community, you would imagine that I spend a large portion of my time championing...
The sharp rise of the Black Lives Matter movement earlier this year has made anti-Black racism an increasingly highlighted issue....
Banseka Kayembe & Image: Luci Pina
On the 22nd October 2020 the Constitutional Court in Poland ruled that abortion due to severe fetal defects was unconstitutional....
An interview with Gabby Felder on the fetishisation of Black women's trauma and her duty to live as her authentic self
O'Niel Leadon & Image: Tinuke Fagborun