On Eating Your Anger, Until It Eats You How does it feel to feel whole? To know you are a real person? It’s like whoever made me left something out, or something open. There’s a constant draft, a small breeze of sadness that I can never quite kill. I was…

“If you’ve trusted love this far, trust it all the way” Introduction Barry Jenkins is often celebrated for his brilliance of capturing intimacy, depicting moments of authentic sensitivity and rehumanising Black people — the historic “Other”. The filmmaker’s most recent cinematic release If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) — also…

Content warning: this paper contains mentions of abuse and sexual violence Introduction Modernity has presented women as passive consumers of mass culture, incapable of critical thought and lacking the potential to be artists, leading to their marginalisation in the music industry. They are given lower-paid positions, denied access to technical…

I Sometimes Worry That I Wouldn’t Be Such a Feminist If I Were Hot & Other Thoughts I Don’t Usually Say Out Loud I’ve watched all twelve episodes of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s ‘Fleabag’ at least three times now. Although I could probably recite half of the teleplay from memory, the line…