Black girl chronicles 18

Mental drainage is real….. I wish I could describe how hard it is to be a black person living in the United Kingdom or Britain which ever term is better, today I’ve been feeling overwhelmed as if there is a elephant on my chest and I can’t breathe  but yet I just about manage to….

Love peace and hair grease

So it’s 2018 and we are still having the same conversations and rightly so. Let me explain I want to understand why texture discrimination is still going on?, I want to understand why there is such a thing as people who have locs or dreads. Or whatever you feel to call them is not natural?,…

Black girl chronicles 16

if you don’t know who stefflon don is girl you are about to find are you ready then let’s get into this article….. I question completely the idea of light skinned privilege while still loving my black skin Acknowledgement of light skin privilege even now in 2018 is sadly lacking, just admit you have it…

Chat wid mi podcast

I have decided to start a podcast yes that’s right me Sistah Soul aka Moter mouth is going to do it. Now I know you lot gonna say well what about yuh YouTube?  I shall still be doing that concurrently with my podcast but I feel like YouTube is not holding my heart as much…

Black girl chronicles part 14

Kim kardashian was compared to who? So it’s come to my attention that a few short months ago, Kim kardashian whose claim to fame was staring in a sex tape with her ex the singer ray j has been compared to Sarah baartman by the New York Times. The literal shiver that just went through…

No black dolls?

It’s been brought to my attention numerous times the lack of black dolls there seems to be here in the United Kingdom. I remember a couple of months ago jamelia was very vocal about struggling to find black dolls for her two daughters and spoke on how there is racism within the doll industry. Imagine…

Black girl representation

Black girl representation is so important right now!! How do we teach our little melanated angels that it is ok to be them? That it is ok to be black and full of passion and creativity, young black girls are wise beyond their own years and it’s time we remember that. Teach them well and…

Wgn underground cancelled?

In case you’ve been living under a huge rock you would have caught on to the brilliance that is wgn underground. A periodical drama based on the Underground Railroad where slaves escaped to their freedom. This show was relevant not just to black Americans but black people across the world no matter what  country we…

Black sistah

Black Sistah from another mister Black brotha from another When did we stop loving each other When did we disconnect, when did I learn to hate you Although it’s not true I could never hate you I am you you are me When did we learn to walk alone When did we stop representing one…

Black British power movement

I as a black woman am incredibly disappointed with the fact that john Ridley the writer of 12 years a slave defence as to why his chosen not to include black women in the forefront of his new to show geurilla. To completely deny the black woman the right to be acknowledged for their contributions…