Korks Talks
By Korks Talks
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Episodes: 236
Description
A podcast offering incisive commentary on arts and culture through reviews of books, exhibitions, theatre, television, and film.
Drawing on a range of sociopolitical insights, each episode critiques wider society through an analysis of the economy, technology, law, and the environment in which creative stories are set.
For all enquiries, please contact: korkstalks@gmail.com
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World Cup 2026 Match Review: Ghana v England (0 - 0)
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Review: 'The Christophers' at Finsbury Park Picturehouse
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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Korks' Currents: Social Media Ban for Under 16s
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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Review: 51st AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Review: Kimberlé Crenshaw in conversation with Afua Hirsch at Southbank Centre
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May 31, 2026 |
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(Half) Review: 'Falling' on Channel 4
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May 21, 2026 |
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Review: 'Michael' biopic and a mild life update
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May 17, 2026 |
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Round-Up Review: FUZE, Netflix's 'Chess Mates' and new BBC Comedy Short 'Proper Ladies'
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Review: The Drama (in cinemas now)
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Round Up Review: The Curfew, The Prestige and Harry Potter Remake
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Review: Muslim Matchmaker, Abundant Mentalities and Music
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Round Up Review: Jay-Z's GQ Interview, SNL UK and Channel 5's Huw Edwards Drama
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Round Up Review: The Capture, The Oscars and Boarders
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Round Up Review: Industry, Saltburn, Black Cake and How To Kill Your Family
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Review: 'All My Sons' at Wyndham's Theatre
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Review: 'Sorry, Baby' on MUBI
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Review: 'Untold: Shooting Guards' on Netflix
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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Review: 'The Black Swan' on BBC
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Review: 'P-Diddy: The Reckoning' on Netflix
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Review: 'Dreamers' by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor at BFI Southbank
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Round Up Review: Hercules, Wicked: For Good and Where The Crawdads Sing
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Korks' Currents: Italian Weddings, Greek Tragedies, British Vogue
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Review: 'Being Eddie', the Booker Prize and Alienation of Affection
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Film Reviews: 'Hedda' and 'Two Can Play That Game'
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Review: Against The Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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In Memoriam: Long Live Black [British] Stories
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Review: Hard Truths (and a personal progress report)
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Round Up Review: 'The Year of Less' and 'Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir'
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Review: Yoshimoto Nara at Hayward Gallery in Southbank Centre
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Review: Intimate Apparel at Donmar Warehouse
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Korks' Currents: Content Creation, Online Safety Bill and 1000 Men and Me Documentary
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Review: Unforgivable (BBC Drama)
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Review: Echo at Royal Court Theatre
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Korks' Currents: Michelle Agyemang, Ed Sullivan and Young People
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Round Up Review: Back to Reality at Annroy Gallery; Anatomy of a Painting at National Portrait Gallery
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Review: 'The Catch' by Yrsa Daley-Ward Part One
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Review: Little Fires Everywhere on Channel 4 OD
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Review: Miss Myrtle's Garden at Bush Theatre
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Review: Cowboy Carter Tour at Tottenham Stadium Part One
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Review: River on ITV
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Review: Tina Knowles In Conversation With Stella McCartney At Southbank Centre About Her Book 'Matriarch'
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Korks' Currents: Technology, Integrity and Accountability
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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Korks' Currents: Documentaries, Dying and Capitalism
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Review: Deep Water on ITV
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Review: The Uninvited at BAFTA 195 Piccadilly
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Review: Little Brother at Jermyn Street Theatre (Part Two)
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May 31, 2025 |
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Review: My Little Brother at Jermyn Street Theatre
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May 30, 2025 |
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Korks' Currents: Journalling, Mr Bates vs The Post Office and Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
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May 26, 2025 |
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Review: The Tower and Code of Silence
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May 21, 2025 |
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Review: Gentleman's Journal Live Keynote Speech and TV series Malpractice by Grace Ofori-Atta (Part One)
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May 13, 2025 |
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Review: Linder and Mickalene Thomas at Southbank Centre and Noah Davis at Barbican
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May 11, 2025 |
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Review: Sinners (Part Two)
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Review: Sinners (Part One)
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Review: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Colour Purple, Year of Yes
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Round Up Review: Wicked, Conjure Women, Pachinko
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Review: 'Inside Out 2' and 'The Wild Robot'
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Review: 'A Raisin In The Sun' at Lyric Hammersmith
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Review: 'Pins and Needles' at Kiln Theatre
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Round Up Review: Mami Wata, Conjure Women and Death of England
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Round Up Review: Ian McEwan's 'Lessons' and Death of England Finale
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Review: Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) at Criterion Theatre
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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Korks' Currents: Right To Switch Off
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Review: Supacell created by Rapman
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Review: Death of England - Delroy
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Review: Beyond The Bassline Exhibition at British Library - Part Three
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Review: Beyond The Bassline Exhibition - Part Two
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Review: Beyond The Bassline Exhibition at The British Library
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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State of the nation rant
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Review: Death of England - Michael
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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Talking about being a Black autistic woman
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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Autism Debrief: Irritability, Loneliness & Isolation
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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My Writing Process (6)
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Review: Queenie (Channel 4 show)
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Some Spiel
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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Review: Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah-Nelson
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May 24, 2024 |
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Another Dystopian Diatribe
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May 19, 2024 |
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Ramblings and Routine
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May 16, 2024 |
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Review: Where We Come From - Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain by Aniefiok Ekpoudom
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May 12, 2024 |
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Review: 'The Time Is Always Now' Exhibition at National Portrait Gallery Curated by Ekow Eshun
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May 05, 2024 |
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Review: Baby Reindeer on Netflix
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Review: Love, Steps at Omnibus Theatre (and internal review of my life lol)
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Review: The Comeuppance at Almeida Theatre
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Review: 'Red Pitch' at sohoplace
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Review: 'Where We Come From' by Aniefiok Ekpoudom - Book Launch at Libreria
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Autism Debrief: Part 1
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Review: A Mirror: This Play Is A Lie at Trafalgar Theatre/Almeida Theatre
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Review: 'Green Dot' by Madeleine Gray
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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The Worst Week of My Life (in Recent Memory)
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Review: The Lonely Londoners at Jermyn Street Theatre
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Review: 'Anansi's Gold' by Yepoka Yeebo
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Progress Report: Pay Rise, Promotion, Purpose and Positivity
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Review: My Neighbour Totoro at Barbican Centre
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Review: 'Shifters' at Bush Theatre
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Review: 'Samuel Takes A Break' at Yard Theatre
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Review: Hamilton at Victoria Palace Theatre
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Review: 'Finding Me' by Viola Davis
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Review: 'Hold' by Michael Donkor
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Review: 'On Rotation' by Shirlene Obuobi
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Review: The Kitchen, directed by Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Review: Second Coming of Nkrumah by Latif Abubakar at Accra International Conference Centre
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Review: 'Penance' by Eliza Clark
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Here's to 2024
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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The Policy of Dishonesty
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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The End of an Era
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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CPTSD, Setting Myself Free and 2024 Being The Year of Me
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Review: Dreaming and Drowning by Kwame Owusu at Bush Theatre
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Work-Life Balance Rant
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Review: The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Review: Caster Semenya in conversation with Kenya Hunt
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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RSD, Anxious Attachments and Radical Optimism
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Autism, Anger Rumination and RRBs
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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My Writing Process (5)
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Review: Love, Marriage by Monica Ali
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Review: Lupin and My Writing Process (4)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Review: Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Review: The Effect at Lyttleton Theatre (National Theatre - Southbank Centre)
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Life Update (Moving On With Work!) and Top Boy Review
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Venting Session (I Am Sick AF)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Review: Ashish - Fall In Love and Be More Tender Exhibition at William Morris Gallery
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Review: 'Reflections for Now' by Carrie Mae Weems at The Barbican
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Round up Review: Small Worlds, Ballet Black, Beneatha's Place
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Review: Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle at Barbican Art Gallery
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Review: 'Maame' by Jessica George and 'Rootless' by Krystle Zara Appiah
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Review: David Adjaye at The Barbican Curve
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Review: Rye Lane
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Review: Medea at Soho Place @sohoplace
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Review: The Heterogeneous Sound Ideal in African-American Music at the British Academy
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Review: Othello at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Review: As You Like It at Soho Place
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Review: Félicité at the The Ministry
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Review: Mandela at Young Vic theatre
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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The State of Acting in Black Britain
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Review: Hex at National Theatre, Frozen at Theatre Royal Drury Lane
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Review: Mo Gilligan and Friends - The Black British Takeover
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Review: Malorie Blackman in conversation with Jackie Kay at British Library
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Review: Stacey Gillian Abe at UNIT London
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Life Update: Trip to Ghana, Work and Wins
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Review: Amy Sherald's "The World We Made" at Hauser & Wirth
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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Review: 'Joint' by Jay Bernard - Southbank Centre (Purcell Sessions)
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Review: The Woman King
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Review: The Wonderful World of Dissocia at Stratford East
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Review: Hallyu! The Korean Wave at the V & A Museum
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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Review: Winslow Homer: Force of Nature at the National Portrait Gallery
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Review: Exclusive Premiere of Catherine Called Birdy (12A) at Barbican Centre
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Review: The Clinic at Almeida Theatre
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Review: 'The Silent Twins' and Q+A with Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance, Cobbie Yates and Akua Gyamfi
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Review: 'Before Them, We' Poetry Reading and 'Saturn Returns' Choreopoem
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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Review: Black and Female with Tsitsi Dangaremgba (with Irenosen Okojie)
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Review: An Evening with Edward Enninful (Interview with Michaela Coel)
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Review: Jamaica Kincaid in Conversation with Paul Mendez
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Review: Queen of Glory, My Old School and BrightLand Exhibition
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Review: In the Black Fantastic was a Festival of Happiness!
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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Belated June Episode
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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The Lunar Eclipse and My Brain Is Now Fully Developed
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May 16, 2022 |
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Digital Activism and Online Communites
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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My Writing Process (3)
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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My Writing Process (2)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Review: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy at the Royal Court Theatre
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Review: Yummy (Burn It Down) at Stratford East
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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My Writing Process
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Review: Small Island at the Olivier Theatre at National Theatre
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Review: Oliver Bullough in conversation with Serena Kutchinsky
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Review: Life Between Islands at Tate Britain
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Reviews and Reading
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Review: Mood
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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The history of Food, the inevitability of Death and the space in-between
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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University Crises, Culture as Education and the importance of Entertainment
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Review: Abbott Elementary, imagine... Labi Siffre, The Photograph, Love is Blind II
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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Review: jeen-yuhs, Life Lessons and lots of Joy
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Day after Valentines
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Happy Valentine's Day (All About Love)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Review: 'Chloe' and 'This Is Going To Hurt'
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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February, Friendship, Family
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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Review: Janet Jackson, Judas and the Black Messiah, Queen and Slim
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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Review: We Are History At Somerset House curated by Ekow Eshun
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Review: Lubaina Himid Exhibition - Tate Modern (Part 1)
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Review: A Number by Caryl Churchill at the Old Vic Theatre
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Mortality, Breaking Boundaries, Inspiration, Focus and Discipline
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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Violence Against Women, Pornography and the Constructs of Gender and Blackness
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Bojo, PMQ and the Politics of Prince Andrew
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Review: Marcella and Missing White Woman Syndrome
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Review: Encanto and Netflix's Stay Close; Molly Mae and the Nationality and Borders Bill
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Diasporan (Black and) Blues
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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First Breakdown of 2022
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Ben Affleck and Blackberries
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Mental Health, Vices and Healthy Habits
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Review: The Lost Daughter
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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Encroaching Corporatocracy, Media, Entertainment and a Happy New Year.
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Review: Insecure Finale, The Big Short and the Crux of Capitalism
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Continuation of Reviews; Swan Song, Encanto, Needle In A TimeStack
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Round Up Review: Swan Song, Encanto, Needle In A TimeStack, Don't Look Up
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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Apocalypses
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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Round up Review: Old, The Girl Before, Insecure
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Round Up Review: A Naija Christmas, Boxing Day, This Way Up
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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Interlude of random thoughts about nothing
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Review: Parasyte
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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Review: You Don't Know Me
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Review: An Audience With Adele
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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High Maintenance (by Design)
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Review: The Eternals (Spoiler Alert)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Ecological Anxiety, Climate Crisis, Change and Environmental Activism #COP26
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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'War Inna Bablyon' at the ICA, Jade LB's 'Keisha The Sket' with Lemara Lindsay-Prince and Jyoti Patel (and my Testimony)
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Wellness, Blackness, and the Politics of Us
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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Accountability in the age of Celebrity
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Abuse and Access to Justice
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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What Love Island's Faye and Teddy, the Lawsuit against Nicki Minaj and Kenneth Petty and The Plymouth Mass Killing All Have In Common
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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Short and Sweet because I'm Beat
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Breaking down Rachel Yoder's 'The Loaf' for Guernica Magazine, Gratification and God
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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Sustainability, Goodreads and Good Writing
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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Why I Deleted Twitter (Because I'm a Black Woman)
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Round Up Review: Dipo Baruwa-Etti 'the sun, the moon, the stars' play, James Barnor's 'A Retrospective' exhibition and Lupin Season 2
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Natural Hair, Salon Struggles and the Cost of Convenience
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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New Me, Morning Routine and Boundaries
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Remittances, hyper-Individualism and the need for Black collectivism
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Law as life
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May 28, 2021 |
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Lessons in letting go
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May 25, 2021 |
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's Tate exhibition: Fly In The League of Night, inspiration and intention
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May 25, 2021 |
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Hacking happiness, activism, the media and morality
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May 12, 2021 |
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Manifestation, materialism & minimalism
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May 11, 2021 |
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Body image for Black women: BBLs, Apetamin and fashion
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May 07, 2021 |
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Round Up Review: Black Brits and Europeans on the Big Screen (TV and film industry)
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Ga-Adangbe people of Ghana, environmental racism and climate change activism
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Norms, neurodiversity, ableism and mental health in the Black community
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Medical racism in the UK, Sickle Cell, the failing NHS and lack of accountability by the State
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Decentring romance and democratising love
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Reconceptualising education, rethinking [mis]information, social media and becoming critical thinkers ft. Stacey
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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A closer look at the report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Missing Black Brits, the model minority myth and normalisation of Black death
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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An ode to older Black women's stories (part 2)
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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An ode to older Black women's stories
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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All about [Black] love (no bell hooks)
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Mar 27, 2021 |
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Dealing with overwhelm, self-image, growth and healing
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Kente, custom and how visual art influences African cultural identity
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Celebratings wins and lows, self-care politics and journalling in the social media age
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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The monarchy's true colourism
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Why I can't take a compliment?
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Mar 07, 2021 |