We teach haters to shrink themselves…to make themselves smaller. The art of hating, or “hateration”, is a complex one. It is one we despise. One that often reflects our own insecurities or downright bigotry. The label “hater” is, unsurprisingly, a derogatory one. It is meant to imply this insecurity telling…

When Claudia Jones arrived in Britain in 1955, she brought the Communist and Black feminist beliefs that got her deported from the US with her. At the same time, the Black African-Caribbean community was expanding, with the Windrush generation arriving in the UK, and racial tensions were high. Three years…

I’m living in a past-present where everyday seems to be dictated by what has come before me. What I do tomorrow. What I have done. I must find a future that encompasses both. Yet that future is always at arms-length, never quite within my reach. It waits for me to…

In February, I felt the US festivities where the usual famous Black Americans are paraded out for us to commemorate in typical liberal fashion. They are commemorated, yes, but in superficial manner. …

“Black comes in all shades” we are often told. It’s true there are Black people across a wide colour spectrum and with the hyper-visibility of light skinned, often mixed race, Black people it seems the boundaries for what constitutes Blackness are ever expanding. Jessica Krug, a professor of African American…

SPOILER WARNING! Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You has been praised for its creative and poignant dealing with a Black women’s experience of rape and abuse, and rightfully so. In just 11 episodes Coel covers the various emotions a victim has to deal with, often making viewers uncomfortable through the…