Tag / Black womanhood
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I Almost Let Him Run Off with All my Stuff
By: Ada Kalu A Personal Account of a Woman Grown Weary of Explaining Patriarchy to Men I am using this week to lock off all talk of men, I am weary. In recent…
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Full Moon Gemini 3/12
By: Tiara Kelly A Manual on How to Move Through this Moon Phase and Mercury Retrograde December 2-22 **shadow phase until Jan 11** Gemini moon will have you wanting to be a…
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For Us By Us: Women of The Lens Film Festival
By: Niki Igbaroola A Recap of the Inaugural Women of the Lens Film Digital Broadcast Festival Lately, conversation around film, cinema and the industry have been centered around men and their inability…
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Roses for Grace Jones: In Celebration of a Cultural Icon
By: Niki Igbaroola A Review of Sophie Fennes’ Documentary Bloodlight and Bami There is something in the way Fennes chose to shoot this documentary that melded perfectly, with Jones’ enigmatic nature. The…
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New Moon, who dis?
By: Mariam Guessous We come into this world with a blueprint, a mission, a purpose. Our DNA holds inscriptions, roadmaps and ancestral wisdom. We were born this way, equipped with everything we…
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Eid Al-Adha Part TWO
By: Wonuola Lawal Part TWO It’s been thirteen years since Grandfather passed. His death was sudden. One night he was standing in the kitchen holding a cup of tea and the next…
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Eid Al-Adha Part ONE
By: Wonuola Lawal It’s the first of September and once again we’re celebrating Eid Al-Adha. It is Islamic tradition to go to the Mosque in the morning before preparing for the feast…
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Editor’s Note: Tradition Issue
Dear Collective, We have returned to our office in the cloud, with a new Issue! This issue we will survey the complexities of tradition. The ways it can liberate and inspire us…
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Colourful Convo: Amarachi Nwosu
Powerhouse women are everywhere around us, on this issue we sat and discuss with one incredibly creative soul, Ms. Amarachi Nwosu. She is fire brand in the art world. A woman…
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The Fracturing of Friendship
-an essay that examines the process of a friendship break-up There is nothing in life more continuously joyous than friendship. In your youth you are burdened with the idea that you will…
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Brown Bodies
by: Mica Hamilton I wanted your brown body To find my brown body I dreamt of your brown body Before I became enough cells to dream I saw our…
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Biting My Tongue Until it Bleeds
A personal essay the dangers of silencing of women as a means of preparing them for wifehood. By: Mavis Michelini “Nne, you burnt the food again. Is this how you will be…
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Note To Self II
By: Wonuola Lawal Note to Self is a self-portrait series captured on 35mm film. It’s about a woman writing notes to herself in order to keep track of the lessons she’s learning…
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How to get into Bow Pose for Beginners and Good Posture
I bend so I do not break. You are as young as the flexibility of your spine. We sit daily in postures that round our back, press our spine and shorten our…
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Stills in Solidarity – A visual story that explores the intimacy among girls and women.
The photos shared were captured during my photo walk/ exploration sessions in Nigeria and a photo shoot I was commissioned to do for a clients birthday. Irrespective of the situation, there is…
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What Traveling Taught me About Race
by: Sope Adekola Stereotypes are still prevalent There are archaic stereotypes attached to being Black that are still unashamedly thriving in parts of the world. Living in a country like the UK,…
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Editor’s Letter: Issue 3 on Travel Stories
Dear Collective, We want to first acknowledge that traveling outside of the lands in which you were born for a holiday or escapism, can be a very elitist avocation. But we also…
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book review: milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
This month we picked up a poetry book from an inspirational woman of colour. Rupi Kaur expresses the complex cycle of love, life, self-worth, healing and more in a beautiful prose. If…
