Tag: Black women
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Known for being affiliating with Girls with Film, shooting for gal-dem and Wonderland. South East London-based director and photographer Nwaka Okparaeke is crafting her vision through her latest offering “Lean Back.” Okaparaeke’s work has always been grounded in the mystical and this film is no different. The short film’s crux pivots itself around a conversation…
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Words by Adina Savannah What lies beneath the promise of an elite education, small class sizes and highbrow class mates is the plight of the black child in those spaces. Due to social economic realities, a private education is not always accessible to a more diverse clientele, namely, the black parent. Yes, I am thankful for…
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I am Melanin, art curated by Stacey Olika for her final year project at University of the West England has certainly changed the narrative in Bristol. The lack of representation of black women in media when growing up caught Stacey’s attention, due to this she wanted to create art that she identified with. She looked…
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![Discover The Story of us by [@HannaAli] narrating the complexities of blackness and womenhood](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ali.png)
Hanna Ali‘s four short story compilation will have your heart in your throat. It’s compelling and gut wrenching imagery will make your stomach sink but it will also give you a sense of living life as a black woman from a different perspective. Born in Mogadishu, Somalia where she spent the first four years of…
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Black Muslim women? Is that some type of sauce? Because I really want to know. Black Muslim women have continuously been erased from the mainstream media, either from TV or any other part of the public eye. This isn’t surprising considering that both identities; Black and Muslim, hardly get much representation anyway, apart from the…