The music and life of Black women is memorialised in mainstream media in ways that rarely recognise their wholeness and the true extent of their work’s impact.
- Reader in Digital Media Studies, Cardiff University
The retrospective is a snapshot of the world of emo around 20 years ago, shaped by people’s recollections of their bedrooms, youth, gigs and gatherings.
Beauty brand Dove hit the headlines for rejecting AI in its marketing – but there’s more to the claims than meets the eye.
Unlike Logan, the Roy children appear to have a surface level perception of Scotland as Roman scoffs at “Scottish kicky-ball” and Kendall exclaims: “Dundee in the mother fucking house!”
Season four of You delves into the misogyny and monstrous behaviour that can lurk beyond university facades.
Black artists have been fundamental to the history of alternative music – the introduction of the Mobos’ alternative category mustn’t forget that.
The creation of social media accounts based on fictional models raises pointed questions about race, representation and commodification.
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