My depression and anxiety has manifested itself in a number of self-hating and harmful ways and it becomes easy to convince myself that my appearance is what’s wrong. I recognize that at the root it is often about me not being enough and a desire to somehow become someone other than who I am. It’s easier to believe that my thighs or my skin or my stomach or my hair is what’s causing me so much grief than to confront the fact that something real is wrong and that something is beyond my control.
In an interview for Film Comment, French director Axelle Ropert said that as a director she made films that she felt were missing as a spectator- that she was filling gaps. Though Ropert wasn't talking about racial representation (or the lack thereof), it is the same impulse that prompted UK-based visual artist Cecile Emeke to create Strolling, a series of short documentaries in which the director herself goes on a walk with beautiful black Londoners to talk about various issues ranging from free tampons to European colonization. She took some of her time to answer our questions about this brilliant series and her upcoming short "Ackee & Saltfish." — interviewed by Fanta
We’re talking all things Serena! We discuss Serena dominating life on and of the court, the teachings her father installed in both her and Venus as children while wondering how prepared you can really be for racism and, yeah, making out with Drake over porterhouse steaks (this is BGT, y’all).
LIVING HER BEST LIFE
References:
Video of Baby Venus
The Meaning of Serena Williams by Claudia Rankine
Serena and Aubrey 4EVR
In this extra special #DRAKEWATCH, Alesia is joined by Senior Drake Correspondent Kyrell Grant and Michelle Ofiwe. We discuss Champagne’s recent feud with Meek Mill (is Drake a bully???), the post-Meek backlash (why???) and of course Queen Nicki. Michelle also gives us some background on her amazing piece, Are We Witnessing the Return of the Hip Hop Girlfriend and we all wonder what’s so bad about being soft? #TEAMVULNERABILTY
