Category: Identity
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Long read: Four Wo(ke)men
Inspired by Nina Simone’s Four Women, I contemplate what it might mean to be a ‘woke’ or ‘woke enough’ black gay man.
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#BlackGaySlay: Leon Lopez Doing What I Want To Do
BlackGaySlay continues with the incomparable Leon Lopez; actor, director, musician, and proud Scouser. With talent to spare and eyes that penetrate, Leon first appeared on the national stage in 1998 as Jerome Johnson in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. Since, he has demonstrated versatility as an artist that enables him to cross genres, from television to…
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Read: Are you Black Panther ready?
The release of Marvel’s Black Panther in the UK in less than 10 days is shaping up to be the pop cultural event of 2018, and possibly the black cultural event of the decade. What do you mean you hadn’t noticed? You’ve got just over a week to get Black Panther ready. . . don’t…
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Read: Got your copy of Vogue yet?
Calling out and making gestures are tools in the social justice armoury. They are less important tools though than real acts of solidarity and protest
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Review: Basquiat – Going The Wrong Way
When I first entered the Barbican’s Boom For Real exhibition, attendants instructed me to start upstairs first to best experience and understand Basquiat’s work. ‘Go clockwise; then come downstairs and go counter clockwise.’ More than once I moved toward pieces that spoke to me in a direction not prescribed by the curators. On these occasions…