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not gay as in happy but queer as in there's not a crop top and beret combo i haven't tried and my daddy didn't love me now I'm a slut
HISKIND was fortunate enough to sit down for a conversation with Stuart, the force behind the AIDS Memorial Instagram, the page doing the vital work of memorialising the countless victims of the crisis. "This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away.
Throughout history, queer people have been at their best when they come together to form collectives: communities that draw strength from both their diversity and unity in order to push our agenda forward. UK Black Pride began in 2005 with a minibus trip to the seaside, organised by lesbian and bisexual women of colour.
On the press night of Tarell Alvin McCraney's masterful The Brothers Size, in the Main House of the Young Vic theatre, we bear witness to something primordial. The characters - Ogun, Oshoosi, & Elegba - begin to channel their literal deity antecedents: the heaven-sent brothers of Yoruba creation mythos.
It's starting to seem like there's always a white police officer with an impatient gun in America, waiting to inflict violence upon black bodies. And what then, after the gun has been fired? Usually the same thing. As the grand-jury's verdict in Ferguson shows, another black death is being swept under the carpet.
I remember the first time I was ever called a "faggot." I was 8 years old, in Science class, and I had absolutely no idea of its gravity or its intent. It wasn't the last time I would be devastated by this slur.
This morning, L'Oreal dropped Munroe Bergdorf, their first ever trans model, from their diversity campaign after a media storm which has seen her since branded as "anti-white" for statements that she made concerning the complicity of white people in widespread racism.
On making TV that asks the hard questions. Reggie Yates is the everyman's everyman.
A selected number of scenes, storyboards, polaroids, as well as a number of other images and mementos were the subject matter of "I dream a world" Looking for Langston', the recent and monumental exhibition at the Victoria Miro.
HISKIND recently had the pleasure of speaking to queer Black New York based artist and photographer, D'Angelo Lovell Williams, about his life, his urgent and necessary work, vulnerability, and his radical and disruptive depictions of queer black identity. I'm trying to do so much shit. The most, actually.
The widespread furore incited against Lola Olufemi after a national newspaper's deliberately misleading cover story about her work on a decolonised university curriculum; L'Oreal's decision to fire Munroe Bergdorf from its diversity campaign for suggesting that all white people are complicit in white supremacy; just a matter of days ago, yet another high-profile blackface incident, this time targeted at Britain's First Black Woman MP, Diane Abbott.