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My Nose

As part of my personal blogging, I wanted to talk about something that’s super close to my heart (actually, it’s really close to my eyes.) I’m going to open up about my insecurities growing up about my nose and how I’ve grown to love it and my other features. So growing to love it was […]

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Moving On

So, a lot of us are disheartened, afraid, annoyed… you name it. But one thing I want to say (something I find hard to say) is that we should respect the result of the General Election. Yes, the Tories won. Yes, it’s going to affect a lot of the stuff we care about. For me, […]

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Critical Limits

I looked at the two contesting parties and thought: “None of these really fully represent the way that I think.” But of course I knew that they didn’t form their manifestos and ideologies to please me but to please the nation. So I tried to see which one I liked best. Frustrated, I had resolved […]

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The Lion King

I remember going with my family to watch the live action adaptation of the Lion King. It was great (neglecting the fact that they got rid of He Lives In You, which will forever slap), but it made me realise that my degree has essentially ruined this beautiful Disney classic; all I could see was […]

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On the Plus Side

I’m starting off the new year with a bang. or a kick. or a jump. (Some form of exercise at least.) I’m going to Clubhouse Xtra, an event running from the 2nd-4th January set up by Christians in Sport to equip sportspersons to share their faith with their team members and honour God with their […]

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Writer Meets Verse Writer

In Warwick Arts Centre, I was sucked into the world of Lanaire Aderemi (also known as Verse Writer.) I payed my £11, expecting what I had always seen – someone at the front, reading their poetry to me for an hour. But this transcended poetry. Aderemi’s poetry was a hybrid between spoken word, acting, music, […]

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Hairarchy

In the western world, black women are at war against beauty standards that are designed to keep them on the out. Actually, Black people are at war with a lot of things at the moment – unfair graduate recruitment is just one of many marshmallows on the open fire (if you’ve watched How to Break […]

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