The Chaos That Is Celebrity Performative ‘Activism’
The Chaos That Is Celebrity Performative ‘Activism’ By Fadzai Nzuwa May 2022 When it comes to the distorted class of activism common amidst celebrities today, are we partly to blame? Thumbnail illustration by Tiffany Zhong Thumbnail illustration by Tiffany Zhong Whilst the world has had to grudgingly become acquainted with the hazardous virological behemoth known […]
Why Your Definition Of ‘Professionalism’ Might Be Problematic
Why Your Definition Of ‘Professionalism’ Might Be Problematic Why Your Definition of ‘Professionalism’ Might Be Problematic By Fadzai Nzuwa April 2022 When it comes to characterising professionalism the reality of structural & cultural exclusion is often overlooked. Thumbnail illustration by Tiffany Zhong Thumbnail illustration by Tiffany Zhong “We’ll disagree to agree”. This was the closing […]
Apathy: Art’s Growing Nemesis
Apathy: Art’s Growing Nemesis By Fadzai Nzuwa April 2022 The next possible consuming ailment of our generation. Thumbnail illustration by Tiffany Zhong Thumbnail illustration by Tiffany Zhong It is my belief that apathy towards art will soon become one our generation’s most consuming ailments. To be quite frank, it’s hard to make people care- about […]
Who Is ‘That Girl’ And Why Am I Obsessed?
Who Is ‘That Girl’ And Why Am I Obsessed? By Na’imah Saffiya March 2022 Thumbnail illustration by Tiffany Zhong Thumbnail illustration by Tiffany Zhong I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but the world outside has become a very strange place, almost certainly overnight. Or was it over two years? I don’t know, the difference between […]
The Art Of ‘The Other’
The Art Of ‘The Other’ By Fadzai Nzuwa March 2022 When it came to bringing blackness into visibility through my art, I began to question what true radicalism even was. Thumbnail graphic by Ipsa Dhariwal Thumbnail graphic by Ipsa Dhariwal There I was, a then 20-year-old burgeoning filmmaker, ushering in her final semester of film […]
Nanny, Neo-colonialism And Jamaica
Nanny, Neo-colonialism And Jamaica By Na’imah Saffiya March 2022 Thumbnail illustration by Tiffany Zhong Thumbnail illustration by Tiffany Zhong After Jamaica gained independence from Britain in 1962, a politically independent nation was established that would struggle tremendously to support itself financially. In sum, Jamaica was an independent nation on the surface but without colonialist powers […]
