Farewell to Shrill: truly radical TV that laughs in the face of fatphobia | Television
[ad_1] Warning: this article contains spoilers for all three series of Shrill on Hulu/BBC Two. “I am not concerned with whether or not fat people can change their bodies through self-discipline and ‘choices’. Pretty much all of them have tried already. A couple of them have succeeded. Whatever. My question is, what if they try […]
Olivia Rodrigo: Sour review – cathartic rage at teenage heartbreak | Olivia Rodrigo
[ad_1] Even in a world where streaming’s rise means chart records are broken all the time, the debut single by Disney star Olivia Rodrigo is an anomaly. Upon the release of Drivers License in January, it had the biggest first week for any song ever on Spotify – then hit the 100m streams mark faster […]
‘I’m broken and my only sin was being a woman’ – Gabrielle Goliath’s survivors | Photography
[ad_1] The event that shaped Gabrielle Goliath’s life as an artist happened when she was nine years old: a schoolfriend was killed in an act of domestic violence, the details of which have never been clear. “It would have been an accident,” she says, from her home in Johannesburg, 30 years on. “But, you know, […]
The Me You Can’t See review – Oprah, Harry and the perils of A-list activism | Television
[ad_1] The latest addition to the teeming tide of contributions to the mental health debate – all promising to dismantle stigma and help us all recognise the trauma in ourselves and others – is led by Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry, who have launched a new series on Apple TV+ called The Me You Can’t […]
Hanif Kureishi: ‘I’d like to see a British Muslim Sopranos’ | Stage
[ad_1] Hanif Kureishi has been reflecting on toxic masculinity. He has heard a lot about it in the past year and it has entered the fiction he has been writing over lockdown – at quite a rate by the sound of it – and sparked stories about predation, sexual misdemeanour and “what’s going on between […]
What’s Going On at 50: Marvin Gaye’s masterpiece is still so true to life | Marvin Gaye
[ad_1] Marvin Gaye’s classic 1971 record What’s Going On turns 50 this month, which means more people than ever will have occasion to note how timely it is. “He could have written What’s Going On yesterday,” poet Nikki Giovanni noted in an interview last autumn, explaining that the cover portrait of her 2020 collection, Make […]
Top 10 books about depression | Books
[ad_1] In the autumn of 2015, I felt numb, worthless, and had thoughts of ending my life. I was 25 years old and I was experiencing my first bout of depression, an illness that has ebbed and flowed ever since. At first, I was hesitant to take medication and opted for a course of cognitive […]
‘We got shot at’ – the outrageous life of Jayne County, the first trans rock’n’roller | Music
[ad_1] Jayne County is explaining the term “wrecking”, which was a popular pastime among the more confrontational drag queens of Atlanta, Georgia, in the 60s. “Just deliberately trying to freak out the regular people, the solids as we called them,” she laughs. “Shaking people out of their normality, just trying to see what nerves we […]
Home sweet Hackney: love, life and local legends in east London – in pictures
[ad_1] From bodybuilders in makeshift gyms to octogenarian gardeners, Hackney is home to a diverse group of community-minded people – as these photographs from locals attest Continue reading… [ad_2] This content first appear on the guardian
How women conquered the world of fiction | Books
[ad_1] In March, Vintage, one of the UK’s largest literary fiction divisions, announced the five debut novelists it would be championing this year: Megan Nolan, Pip Williams, Ailsa McFarlane, Jo Hamya and Vera Kurian. All five of them are women. But you could be forgiven for not noticing it, so commonplace are female-dominated lists in […]
