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Fun, or as it may be, not so fun fact: I was once expelled from school. What I did, though it once felt important, isn’t anymore. In fact, it never was. Why it happen to me and none of the other kids involved however, is, and always will be Read more

It’s not even the end of 2021 and already I’m seeing ‘new year, new me’ posts, as if like magic, on January 1st – *poof* – the old you will disappear and the new one will take its place. Read more

A series of poetic letters about learning to love myself and my Blackness. In time, I have learnt to accept me for who I am and truly be comfortable in the skin that I was born in. Read more

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I despise dating apps. I think they’re the pits. I prefer to do things the old-fashioned way; guy meets girl in a bar; cute waiter sends a coffee on the house Read more

by Isabel Harper & Chiedza Chikanza

another one of us died today 

but they won’t talk about it 

they won’t say her name

not  really

and if they do they’ll use her

like a tool to be discarded

she’s Read more

This week we welcome yet another guest writer to our Sips Tea Family. For the past 6 years Tawana Mazhude has been studying medicine at the Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2020, as she began her final year, she was published in the university’s magazine. Her piece, Racism in Healthcare, explores the role that race has played in medical discoveries, covid deaths and childbirth. Read more

I remember trying to count all the Black kids that I saw in my first week of boarding school – I found 12, in a school of easily 850+ students. 12, can you imagine? We were like grains of Read more

Welcome back to the Let’s Talk About Contraception post series. In ‘The Combined Pill Edition’, we learnt about the facts that they don’t want you to know, discussed the deceptive nature of healthcare professionals on this subject and touched up the impacts the combined pill can have on your mental health. This week, we’re going that step further and discussing the way in which women are expected and in many cases, encouraged to physically alter our bodies in order for us to exercise our own sexuality Read more

It is not easy growing up in a society that has not learned to love you yet: one whose default position towards you is violence and hatred. As a Black Woman, I have internalised a lot of self-hatred towards my skin colour, my culture and nationality. But, my hair has borne the brunt of it. It has never been straight enough, thick enough, curly enough, White enough. And funnily sometimes, it’s not even Black enough. I am still very much on a journey to loving it, but I have found that understanding the root of all my hate, has helped me pave the way for genuine love and appreciation of my hair’s natural form. Read more

Sadly, last week, England lost the Euro 2020 final and I must say, it was a focal low point for this country. Though, not because of the loss, but because of what it, shall we say, re-revealed. Read more