This interview was originally published on Meeting of Minds UK Born and raised in East London, Precious Mustapha is making her mark in the TV and film industry. She now stars in Netflix’s Fate: The Winx Saga as Aisha and caught the attention of thousands of Black Women and girls…

This article was originally published on Meeting of Minds As the nation eagerly looks forward to the 21st of June 2021, as the day that social distancing restrictions may finally end once and for all, we take a look back at the shortfalls of Boris Johnson’s government, which led us…

This article was originally published on Meeting of Minds Inspired by the powerful words of Audre Lorde, ‘your silence will not protect you’, Lanaire Aderemi views storytelling as an act of resistance in a world that silences Black women. As an award winning poet, playwright, researcher and recent sociology graduate…

This article was originally published on Meeting of Minds Current sexual and reproductive health (SRH) policies exclude the narratives of non-white women. Coupled with the threat of climate change, we see how these policies continuously impact the world’s poorest regions who contributed the least to climate change. In particular, the…

Whenever the terms “African diaspora” or “Black diaspora” are mentioned on social media, they almost always exclude the voices of Black people in non-Anglophone regions of the world, specifically the Global South. Countries such as Brazil and Colombia have a rich history of Black female intellectuals but because of the…

The article was originally published on Meeting of Minds Menstruation is a natural part of a girls coming of age story, it’s a biological phenomenon, and thus, Women and girls should not be subject to shame, social stigma or disrupted schooling — PERIOD! There’s been a series of tweets with…

This article was originally published on Meeting of Minds The recent surge in activism surrounding Black Lives Matter has exposed the failings of some universities when it comes down to acknowledging the colonial legacies that remain detrimental to their ethnic minority students, particularly those who are Black. In a similar…

This article was originally published on Meeting of Minds Once again, France has unleashed new levels of Islamophobia, but I prefer to use the term anti Muslim hatred. Calling it Islamophobia places the onus on Muslims who fall victim to it, rather than those who perpetrate it. Viewing Islamophobia as…

This article was originally published on Meeting of Minds Content warning: suicide and sexual assault We always hear about the migrant crisis in a European context, but the social and economic ramifications of the August 2020 explosions in Beirut, Lebanon, evidenced how the discourse concerning expatriation needs to be expanded…