That baggage is so heavy that it effectively hinders your ability to perfect your craft and produce your art. When you’re a person of colour trying to produce art, so much of your time is spent networking, lifting people within your community up, fighting your industry against discrimination, proving that your deserve a spot at the table, and carrying the burden of representation for your people. 

Over 155 million people listened to a podcast every week in 2020. I was one of those people. They say you can learn a lot about a person by looking at their bookshelf. I’d say the same goes for their podcast library.

When we are the predominant victim…

Press play on our curated soundscapes for fashion month

Unless you were living under a rock last week; you know that 4 x Olympic gold medallist and 19 x World Champion gold medallist Simone Biles decided to put her mental health first.

We’ve all seen the picture. Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) floating around New York City in none other than a ‘boho-chic’ inspired Forever21 dress. While a travesty in its own right (Carrie wouldn’t dare wear Forever21, nor would Patricia Field dress her in one), the true fashion crime is the power and hold of fast fashion.

When it comes to TV these days, I don’t need a scripted arty detective drama that has a twang theme song that weekly goes further into the gruesome murder of a woman. No thanks; I save all my television based chaos for reality and most of that reality consisting within what I call 'The Bravo Cinematic Universe'

Making light of big things and celebrating little things. From sex on periods, men treating themselves to a sit-down pee to complicated, dead-end sexual partners who are only complicated because you keep going back. Your late twenties are so strange, even more so in London where the expected timeline to grow up wobbles a bit. Matafeo holds a mirror to what could be described as the last call of your twenties.

I have 716 matches on Tinder and I haven’t met up with a single 1.

No one asks to be born. Yet here we all are, existing solely on the terms of our parents' decision.

I was lucky to grow up in a household where the news of the day was discussed openly and honestly. I knew how media spin works, and who decides which stories get airtime. At the same time, I fooled myself into believing that this issue shouldn’t be discussed because it’s ‘complicated’. I refuse to do this anymore.

We binge. We binge-eat, we binge-drink, and we binge-watch. We inhale content without question—especially when it’s fiction hiding under the cloak of reality. And who’s to blame? The viewers, or the participants?

Whether you’ve been together for years or it was a brief but meaningful summer of love, deciding whether to share joint custody of your friendship group is a decision many people face after a break up.