As stateside protests against police brutality and systemic racism continue in the United States, Black people scattered across the diaspora are feeling the pain. Having also experienced their own strand of racism — anti-Blackness is a global and intergenerational phenomenon — similar demonstrations are popping up across the world. In […]
This Friday’s full moon is no ordinary full moon. Traditionally coinciding with wild strawberry season, June’s is known as a full strawberry moon, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac. But astrologically, there’s nothing cute or whimsical about this lunar event. It opposes the Sun in Gemini and forms a lunar […]
Russian photographer Varya Kozhevnikova gave birth to her daughter Lera when she was 17 years old. “When I was 16, I met a guy and I fell madly in love,” she remembers. “The feeling was mutual and from the first day we met, we were inseparable. Of course we both […]
Come with me on a private tour of the intimate details of my recent journey into skin hunger. It’s a slow, painful uphill cycle in which we’ll spend weeks going along the long, cold, concrete corridors of not having been touched for months. We’ll discuss how a global pandemic forced […]
The rules around lockdown in the UK may be (slowly) changing after nearly three months of social distancing and self-isolation but it doesn’t mean back to normal by a long shot. While socially distant barbecues are technically permitted, there are many of us (this writer included) who just don’t have […]
Getty Images The brutal killing of George Floyd last week has prompted worldwide protests against racism and calls for equality. At the forefront of the Black Lives Matter protests are high profile figures, from Lizzo, Barack Obama and Taylor Swift to Beyonce, Pink and royal family members. The Commonwealth Trust, […]
Credit: Dan Kitwood / Getty Prince Andrew officially stepped back from royal duties late last year following scrutiny of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the late multimillionaire businessman who was imprisoned without bail in July 2019 following accusations of having sex with girls as young as 14 years old. Reports […]
Next week the world’s most innovative tech festival is going virtual and, trust us, you’re not gonna want to miss it From political movements that have stemmed from Twitter hashtags, to driving cars that can actually tell us our horoscope, technology is developing, fast, and improving our lives in ways we could […]
Credit: Presley Ann / Getty Emma Waston has responded to backlash for her #blackouttuesday Instagram post yesterday, telling her followers ‘I see your anger, sadness and pain.’ The black square was initially used as an online protest in the wake of George Floyd’s death to show solidarity and support for […]
‘This pandemic has exposed huge disparities in the health of our nation’ Getty Images People from black and Asian ethnic groups are twice as likely to die with Covid-19 than those from white backgrounds, a Public Health England report has found. The report also confirmed that the highest diagnosis rates […]
