Ten of the best Black TikTokers you should be following

15th October 2020

It’s undoubtedly my favourite pastime – scrolling through TikTok, becoming absorbed in an incessant whirlpool of some awesome, but addictive content. It wasn’t always this way – prior to lockdown I had no idea that this platform could educate me, inspire me, and compel me to make changes to my own life. (Changes to everything besides procrastination, that is.) And there are so many brilliant Black creators whose videos I adore and who inspire me every day – so I thought I’d share a few of them with you all.

Ten of the best Black TikTokers you should be following

Get Out

15th October 2020

Jordan Peele’s 2017 ‘Get Out’ redefined the horror genre. The racial thriller follows a young Black man Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) as he spends the weekend with his white girlfriend Rose’s aggressively ‘non-racist’ family.

Get Out

Pose

15th October 2020

Pose is my go-to TV recommendation whenever anyone asks me for one, so I thought I’d publicly broadcast my love for it this Black History Month. The show is set in 1980s (and early ’90s in season two), and showcases the Black and Latino LGBT ballroom scene, which was the forerunner of drag culture as we know it today.

Pose

Black LGBT history

15th October 2020

When people think of Black LGBT history, they tend to start and finish with Stonewall. It was vital to LGBT liberation, but in dealing with the history of the Black LGBT community, we need to go back further to the 1920s, hrough the civil rights movement, the AIDS epidemic and up to today.

Black LGBT history