Is recycling greenwashing? How curbside recycling began

3rd November 2022

One fateful afternoon, during the leisurely research of the correct way to recycle different types of plastic (thrilling, I know), I fell down the rabbit-hole of how the process actually works, and consequently, how it came to be. We view recycling as the norm, we take it for granted, and we feel good about our waste – it’s out of sight and out of mind. And yet we never stop to consider it critically and ask pressing questions: does it really help? Where does the waste go? How do we maximise how much gets recycled? Let’s attempt to answer.

Is recycling greenwashing? How curbside recycling began

Black Panther’s Celebration of Black Culture

13th October 2022

Black Panther – and I will not hesitate to fight anyone on this – is one of the best and perhaps most underrated Marvel movies out there. It provides entertainment for Marvel fans and non-fans alike through its humour, fast-paced action and engrossing graphics whilst avoiding a clichéd love interest (although shoutout to Nakia and Black Panther for having the ultimate relationship goals). But honestly, if you don’t adore Marvel, then what are you doing with your life?

Black Panther’s Celebration of Black Culture

Black Mediums and Feminism

13th October 2022

What does American spiritualism, Black mediums and feminism have in common? Surprisingly, in the 19th and 20th centuries, the overlapping ideas were very much interlinked.American spiritualism was a movement that was catapulted into the zeitgeist in 1848 New York, when the Fox Sisters first heard a mysterious supernatural spirit ‘rapping’s’ in their bedroom, although the ideas of communing with the dead had long pre-existed. Spiritualism itself is defined as a ‘system of belief or religious practice based on supposed communication with the spirits of the dead, especially through mediums,’ and is still in practice today, combining elements of Christianity, Hindu and Buddhist ideology, and for better or for worse, elements of traditional Native American rituals, with the main covenant being that the spirits are a fundamental part of our existence.

Black Mediums and Feminism