When my husband died, I vowed to stay single in my after-life. Not because I was grieving, but because domestic partnership was something I had no interest in doing again. My marriage was traumatic in a way that I wasn’t fully cognisant of until it ended abruptly and my need […]
A few years ago, Make Up For Ever was the brand that all trusted beauty experts were obsessed with. Makeup artists would speak highly of the products on shoots or backstage at London Fashion Week and it was impossible to find a beauty enthusiast who didn’t own the HD foundation […]
Audacity. It’s the first word that comes to mind when I think of Ziwe Fumudoh. The comedian is unabashed, unashamed, and bold in her challenges to the status quo. But as a fellow Nigerian American, I grew up with the word being deployed as a way to denote how “disrespectful” […]
Gone are the days of boy-band induced hysteria in Times Square outside of MTV’s Total Request Live (TRL for the real ones) and stunt tours packed with the bold-faced names of the early 2000s like Nelly, Eve, Jessica Simpson, 3LW, Dream and headliners Destiny’s Child on the same bill. We’ll […]
Plenty of true stories are adapted for television and one of the most widely acclaimed of the last few years is the BAFTA-winning drama Three Girls. Discussing the 2012 child grooming and sexual abuse scandal in Rochdale, the series was praised for its deeply affecting story and impact in raising […]
Online dating is a minefield even before you get to grip with the latest dating trends – straightforward ghosting is becoming passé, apparently, now that something called zombieing is taking over. So, new research revealing what members of Gen Z consider the “dos” and “don’ts” of dating app etiquette definitely […]
The marriage registration system in England and Wales has been reformed to remove an 184-year-old gender bias. From this week, the names of both parents are being included on marriage certificates, instead of just the father’s. The change comes as a new electronic marriage registration system is introduced in England […]
There is, once again, a trendy term going viral. A term that is dividing generations and genders. A term that groups a number of food, fashion, decor, and aesthetic preferences by how not-trendy they are. The word is “cheugy” and it’s as cringe-y as it sounds. “Cheugy,” as defined by […]
MONSTER: KEVIN HARRISON JR. as STEVE HARMON. Cr. NETFLIX © 2021 Spoilers are ahead. It isn’t very far into Netflix’s Monster that we hear the titular word. Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) is a Black 17-year-old living in Harlem, New York. He attends a fancy high school and is an […]
If you don’t know a horse girl, aren’t one yourself, or haven’t seen one on throwback TV shows like Wildfire, horse girls are, simply put, girls who love horses. Sometimes they ride them — but they don’t have to; you can be a horse girl if you’ve never even been […]
