Clik here to view.
Janet Jackson Is Your New Favourite Feminist Icon
Last month, after a seven-year break, Janet Jackson announced a new album and an upcoming world tour. I lost my shit. Fan of her music or not, you need to know that this woman is a big deal. In the...
View ArticleMy Top 5 Soundcloud Tracks Of The Week: 2
The only thing tutor and student usually ever in common is the fact they work in the same place. Making Noize Production, tutor, with Harmonix met Cynthia Taiwo, student, while teaching a music course...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tame Impala's 'Currents' - A Contemporary Psychedelic Heartbreak
Tame Impala's 2012 debut album, Lonerism, was a modernized psychedelic infusion of experimental prog rock and 60's emulation. Elephant captured their unique sound and remains the Australian band's...
View ArticleWould Channel 4's 'Humans' Be Good for Disabled People?
I have been watching Humans on Channel 4, and the potential impact the idea of consumer focused 'synthetics', with great interest. If we ignore the storyline, I am really interested on how they would...
View ArticleTache of Evil: 'True Detective' and the Rise and Fall of Cop Moustaches
Sure, there are other characters in the sophomore season of HBO's True Detective, but it's the battle between Detective Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell) and his moustache that offers the most gut-wrenching...
View ArticleClik here to view.
People Are So Worried About Offending People - We've Shot Ourselves in the Foot
Life's been awkward since the moment, I was born. The doctor came in and said to my dad, "Would you mind standing up?" My dad stood up. And he looked at him and he said, "You're not unusually short,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ballet Review: Natalia Osipova Wows at the Ardani 25 Dance Gala
There is a reason why Natalia Osipova is the dancer everyone wants to see. And the star delivered on her box office draw for the Ardani 25 Dance Gala with performances full of her trademark visceral,...
View Article#RHOBH S5, EP16 - Epic Fight in Amsterdam[m]
Season 5, Episode 16: Review In Amsterdam[m], tensions continue to run high between Kim and Lisa Rinner. As soon as the ladies check into the hotel, Lisa R. races to warn Eileen and Lisa V. that they...
View ArticleBig Isn't Always Better - 'Ant-Man' - The Review
Two years ago I asked Edgar Wright what the tone of Ant-Man would be like. He was a little cagey naturally, but I had no idea within months he would have left the project and Marvel bosses would be...
View ArticleTwitter And Video-On-Demand - Shifting The TV Balance of Power?
In April, David Lynch took to Twitter to announce that he was not going to direct the new Twin Peaks TV series. He couldn't negotiate the right money with Showtime, the network funding its production....
View Article'National Identity Is a Kind of Drag': Why Duckie Are Queering the Borders...
If you have a UK passport, you can be considered lucky. UK nationals have freedom of movement to 174 countries and territories (89% of the countries of the world), ranking the British passport 1st...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On Glastonbury
I had the Glastonbury experience a few weeks ago for the first time. I can check that one off my bucket list. No one told me to bring wellies; I thought - it's summer, why would it rain? I ended up...
View ArticleMy Son the Hero
I've always known there is something very special about Freddy. His school life has been littered with incidents that suggest he is by no means perfect in conformity but I've never stopped believing in...
View ArticleCli-Fi; Climate Change Fiction As Literature's New Frontier?
Literature is always a comment on the times in which we live regardless of the period in which it is set. This is potentially politically, economically, socially or now - environmentally. A growing...
View Article'Spectre': the Latest Film to Spoil Itself With a Bloated Trailer
The synopsis to Spectre, the 24th James Bond film, reads: "A cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the...
View ArticleExposing the Global Coalition of Organisations That Support Anti-Gay Laws...
It's a cold night and the car park in Bratislava is lit only by the neon lights from a supermarket. This is where Romana, a prominent gay rights activist was lured after a phone call from a woman who...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dynamic Exhibition on The Jam at Somerset House
Somerset House has opened the first comprehensive exhibition about The Jam, the iconic band who not only had 18 consecutive UK top 40 singles and over 14 million global album sales, but who also...
View ArticleJenner and Gender Performativity
The celebration of Caitlyn Jenner's transition to womanhood is evidence of a now widespread acceptance that gender is performative, rather than the outward manifestation of an inner biological fact....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sonic Vistas - Rocking Out for All!
I must admit I don't have the time to write an exploration of how music saved my life as a teenager, when I began my life as a wheelchair user, or how the underground Disability Arts Scene has been a...
View ArticleMudslinging on Twitter
She is considered the most influential female rapper of all time. He is has less sheen than a dog-eared copy of The Ragged Trouser Philanthropists. But it turns out that Nicki Minaj and the Labour...
View Article