Tag: gal-dem

  • A mixed-race woman is about to become the first non-white member of the British monarchy, and I am conflicted.

  • Ngozi Onwurah, despite being the director of the first independent black British feature film to be released, is not a household name. For a long time, her film Welcome II The Terrordome (1995), was the only film by a black woman to have a UK release.

  • Amma Asante’s A United Kingdom gal-dem 2016-11-18 Grace Barber-Plentie Image via Telegraph The characters and scenarios in Amma Asante’s A United Kingdom are like ghosts – they’re long gone, long dead, and yet there is still a resonance and urgency to them that keeps pushing through to our subconscious, never letting us quite forget. Regardless…

  • When will Rachel Dolezal stop trying to get in formation? gal-dem 2016-06-23 Paula Akpan and Ella Wilks-Harper When the story of Rachel Dolezal first broke – the NAACP president who has been misrepresenting herself as black – I snorted derisively. When she was interviewed by VICE’s Broadly and mused over how “it’s so hard to explain this to people: I don’t feel white,” I rolled my…

  • ‘You don’t see many of them round here’: being black in the white, rural West Country gal-dem 2016-09-05 Louisa Adjoa Parker My parents met when my dad came to the UK from Ghana in the 1960s to train as a nurse. He married my mum, and I was born in Doncaster in 1972. I don’t…

  • I’m Filipino too: Filipino-ness and Multiraciality gal-dem 2016-06-01 Amena Conopio-Ziard When I first participated in an online Austronesian community group, a member questioned me, in Tagalog, if I was Filipino. He thought by messaging me in Tagalog he could cleverly catch me out in an autonomous space he believed I shouldn’t be in… Read the…