An alternative take on the week's news
I remember the first time I received a phone call. I was 13 and it was a weekday. My mum answered. I was up in my room and thought nothing of it, as no one ever called the house for me. When my mum called me downstairs, I got very scared, very quickly. My brain... Continue Reading →
This came across my Twitter timeline yesterday. https://twitter.com/rodimusprime/status/1039358092075524096 It really made me think. It is easy to laugh at the man being interviewed. He says, "When you study the history, that [slavery] was one thing the war was about. People don't go to war for one issue", and yet, when asked to "name three other... Continue Reading →
"Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?" - Hamilton In America, there is a media playbook for how to talk about mass shootings and guns. It's so ingrained, late night talk show hosts have joked about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE36KPRyt0Q often. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J13moAuWDUE There's also a playbook when an unarmed black man is killed. Sadly, it's being... Continue Reading →
"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive." - Audre Lorde Naomi Osaka played one of the best games of tennis I have ever seen on Saturday. That sounds hyperbolic, but it's true. In her first grand slam final, the 20 year old... Continue Reading →
I spent the morning watching City of Joy, a documentary set in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), about a centre of the same name, that is opened in Bukavu, to work with female victims of the war that have suffered an almost unbearable amount. I wrote this on Twitter directly afterwards: https://twitter.com/Angelo3000k/status/1038014236797095936 I don't know... Continue Reading →
The Black Unicorn 