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This is part II of Top 10 of My Favourite Podcasts of All Time. Check ’em out: Two Dope Queens What started off as hanging out at comedy clubs…
Podcasts are my favourite corner on the internet – they are an incredible means of sharing our lived experiences with each other: whether it’s the work we do,…
I knew that Dirty Computer would be Janelle Monáe’s Fuck You album. After the first two singles, I knew it! The Fuck You album is the album that is…
[Insert opening line about how hard blogging is, especially if you’re holding down a full time occupation, blah blah blah.] While whatever that opening line is may read true, the other…
Good Food (and this includes copious amounts of bubbly), Great Music, Fabulous People – these are Joburg city mainstays. Throw in precious jewels in a central yet secluded venue, and you have…
A poem by Bella Cox and Emma Maybe
The politics of the black body have long been contentious. Its placement in a society that, to quote Ta-Nehisi Coates, “plunders it,” is a discussion that not only…
[Article first published on Huffington Post] ..Being policed by security personnel when shopping. It’s living with the knowledge that they will keep their eye on you, or even…
I hated sport when I was a kid, throughout my teenage years and well into adulthood because I found that it exists within a hyper-masculine space that I find repellant and toxic. Or is it…
…Being ready with a ‘we are both men’ answer to the (dumb) ‘who’s the girl’ question. Being setup on blind dates with ‘other gays’ by heterosexual women friends…