Faith, Fashion and Politics
Is social media making us Basic™? I’m gonna go against the tides here and say no it most definitely isn’t. I mean, I’m guessing you think I’m crazy. “What about Lad-lads, VSCO girls and all other copy+paste internet personalities in between?” you would ask. What if I told you that none of these internet personas […]
MoreSome weeks ago, I went to Alicante but I didn’t get into the intricate details of my trip. Today, I’m going to talk about my experience of Alicante, but not the activities. As I’ve said before in An Archive of Political Photography, everything I see brings out the political in me, so I’m getting into […]
More“Where are you from?” “Telford.” “No, where are you from from?” Being part of a diasporic community is a beautiful, but sobering experience to say the least. There’s something quite wholesome in our longing for the motherland, but there’s also a lot of emptiness in rejection from the home we claim and from the home […]
MoreIn 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, […]
MoreWhy would anyone sit on the damp floor of a stop at Warwick University Bus Interchange (on a gloomy day) with some chalk and draw this? I don’t even think anybody at the stop noticed it and when I returned days later, it had faded away. As someone who’s into photography, it definitely caught my […]
MoreIn 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 […]
MoreIn my introductory post, I told you all that I’m a Christian. And when I said Christian, I don’t mean “oh, I was christened as a child”, or “I go to church”. Yes, I was raised in church but I didn’t believe any of it for a very long time. I mean that I (by […]
MoreSo life has been hectic for me (and I’ve got writers block), so please enjoy my political photography from the past year – it’s all on my Instagram account (access from the sidebar), but I want to explore the hidden political messages and thoughts behind some of my photos from this summer and why I […]
MoreAfter a long summer at work, isolated from my family and friends, I’m coming back dressing totally different. I’m going for slow, modest, grandma-esque fashion. I should probably start off by explaining what slow fashion is and why it’s a good alternative: Slow fashion is the movement away from mass-produced clothing (fast fashion). It’s often […]
MoreI am not fat. No seriously, I’m not. Okay guys, so I’ve had an epiphany during the commute to work – the language we use affects how we see ourselves, how we see others, and how we act in response. Let’s talk auxiliary verbs: to be, to do, to have. So, when someone is on […]
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