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.
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.
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.
Ranging from baggy jeans to bucket hats, hoop earrings to lettuce trim tops, there are so many overlooked fashion trends that have been made and set by the Black community and we need to give them the recognition they deserve.
Mary Seacole was born as Mary Jane Grant over 200 years ago in Kingston, Jamaica. While her mother was Black Caribbean, her father was white and so she was born a free person, unlike most Black Jamaicans of the time. When she was young she learnt Caribbean medicine from her mother (a doctress), mainly practicing on animals such as dogs and birds. Her mother owned a boarding house called Blundell Hall, and from the age of 12 Mary began to help run it and care for many of its injured inhabitants.
