Toria Garbutt is a refreshing figure in the world of poetry and spoken word. She released her debut album Hot Plastic Moon in 2016, and her poetry collection The Universe and Me earlier this year. […]
A Modern Classic: Mother Courage and Her Children at Leeds Playhouse
Bertold Brecht’s 1939 play, Mother Courage and Her Children, is regarded as one of the greatest anti-war plays of all time, and in the midst of Europe facing a refugee crisis, Brecht’s tale of traumatic […]
One Year On: How #MeToo Has Affected Film
Once the Harvey Weinstein scandal surfaced last year, a total of 87 women came together and spoke out about his treatment of women. But how has that changed the way women are treated in the […]
The Art of a New City: Nineties Berlin Exhibition Review
Following a trip to Berlin over summer, Carmen Walker-Vazquez reviews a new multi-media exhibition that captures 1990s Berlin through music, video and installation. Tucked away on a quiet industrial lot in the Berlin neighbourhood of […]
BlackKkKlansman: Essential Viewing That Will Make You Angry In The Right Way
Following the true story of a black man infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s, BlackkKlansman is an offensive, in-your-face, and unflinching depiction of racism and fanatical politics. It’s constant parallelisms to Trump alongside […]
Review: BoJack Season 5
Looks like our favourite dysfunctional character is back – with a new season to boot! When we last saw BoJack at the end of season four, he was attempting to redeem himself as a person by […]
More Than Just A Phenomenal Woman – Maya Angelou
As part of Black History Month, Digital Associate Editor Bella Davis pays tribute to the multi-talented American artist. Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s […]
Post Holiday Blues?
You’re back to uni, back at work, back to life at home. Despite having had a summer of action-packed backpacking or a relaxing a beach holiday, it’s easy to feel somewhat sad once you get […]
Black History Month – An Excuse for Whitewashing??
Every year October comes around and newspapers, academia and every other website starts declaring how important black history is and how diverse they are. Black history and diversity in academia are of course undeniably important […]
Polls, Pigment and Pitas
Black History Month belongs to every Other. The open dialogue shared alongside discussions of the struggles of Black peoples allows for the recognition of both past and present problems that we of the Black/ Mixed/Other/not-a-white-person […]
Dread, Beat and Dub: The Art of Linton Kwesi Johnson
Jodie Yates could write a book about Linton Kwesi Johnson, the Black British poet renowned for his pioneering form of dub-poetry. But you can check out the abridged version of his life in this week‘s […]
Bill Ryder Jones Brings his Melancholic Bliss to the Howard Assembly Room, 21/09
In addition to producing two of the arguably best English debut albums of the year (The Orielles’ Silver Dollar Moment and Our Girl’s Stranger Today), the former The Coral guitarist has also found time to […]