The international ‘fashion weeks’ kicked of in early February, which will culminate with the Paris Fashion Week which ends on the 9th March. The ‘diversity’ issue is one that is often brought to the fore during this season and in…
Last week Friday I attended a spectacular event to discuss critical issues affecting women of colour – that of shadeism, colourism and how our bodies are objectified in the name of beauty. These topics were being dissected with the help…
I was recently looking at my ‘Books’ category on my blog and was ashamed to see that it contains just 2 posts!! How embarrassing! This really shouldn’t be the case as I LOVE to read! I have been very busy…
A play on a London stage with a cast of seven black women to one white man. A play that tackles the history and the complexity of the combination of colourism, racism and patriarchy. A play in which the voice…
I kept schtum during the Olympics. I had not commented during numerous Wimbledon matches. After all, the extreme trolling that Serena Williams experiences EVERY TIME she steps on to the tennis court – the intense disparaging of her body AND…
Thousands of students embark on a new phase of their lives this week as they begin or return to university and I too will soon be rekindling my student days, as I participate in and enjoy the offering of the…
It is hard to fail to notice the increasing number of news headlines tackling with the issue of race in the UK. Be it UKIP’s flagrancy or the treatment of Black British footballers, to Lenny Henry’s campaign to increase the…
Yesterday’s news story that broke in the Guardian and that was then swiftly reported on the BBC News website about Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women, their names and their employment challenges really struck a chord. I too have had…
I have a few things that I love in life – of course one of those things is beauty, I am an avid reader, but music is also a passion of mine! Music is such an intrinsic part of me it is very much…
