Feeling so inspired after attending @ollie_lolly #MadlandHacks event - in conversation with the one and only, and ever inspiring❣️ @priyamatadeen❣️given us lots to think about 📝 and can’t wait for the next one! . . #woc #womenofcolour #advertising #marketing #worklife #inspiration #inspiringwomen #badasswomen #adland
Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating today!✨💛🌙 shoutout to @azeemamag for bringing this gorgeous photo to our attention this morning 😍 // original image taken from ‘Spring in Harlem’ - a beautiful project & short film depicting the beauty of Muslim women, directed by @adesuwa & @joshuawoods / shot by @antioch_studio 🌸 make sure you follow @azeemamag 🙌🏾⚡️❤️ . #azeemamag #eid #eidmubarak #islam #muslim #celebration #love
TOMORROW’S EVENT 🙌🏻🙌🏼🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏿 By @inclusivemosque - “We’re celebrating Eid on Tuesday 21st August at The Wesley Hotel in Euston. The venue is wheelchair accessible and the Eid prayer will begin at 10am. Everyone is welcome including people of all genders, non-Muslims and families of all shapes and sizes. There will be no compulsion to pray for those who don’t want to and you’ll be free to sit or stand where you feel comfortable. We’ll have a kids’ corner and there’s usually music and dancing after. We recognise that the date of Eid can be a point of contention and this year people will celebrate on different dates. At the Inclusive Mosque Initiative, we consider diversity in Islamic practice a strength and we will be wishing Eid Mubarak to everyone celebrating on whichever date you feel is best. One last note: we want to extend an explicit welcome to all those who wear niqabs or burqas. We will always defend your right to cover yourselves in the ways you choose and stand with you when anyone, including a representative of the state, seeks to reduce your existence. May Allah bring us all closer together this Eid. Ameen. (There will be a donations box at the venue if you can contribute to help us keep running these events)” #Eid #Islam #muslims #eiduladha #eiduladha2018 #inclusion #inclusivity #diversity #equality
Last night, we had the privilege to watch @kelechnekoff #SayYourMind podcast LIVE show and it was everything we’d hoped it’d be 😂 The untouchable queen that is @kelechnekoff has so many strings to her bow, we don't even know where to begin! As well as being an actor, director, founder of fitness studio @kelechnekoff_studio, fitness, twerk and pole dance instructor...and the list goes on! if you need to school anyone on how to exorcise the ever-looming ghosts of colonialism and smash the patriarchy, just send them straight to her IG stories. A true legend and beautiful person inside and out ❤️❤️❤️ . . #podcast #identity #culture #sayyourmind #business #woc #womenofcolour #badasswomen
#TOBFollows Alex Fefegha, Founder and Head Creative Technologist at @comuzi.lab , an experimental R&D agency, working at the intersection of emerging technology and humans. He is an advocate of #techforgood with one of the projects he has worked on including a Clinical Entrepreneur Training Programme co-designed with NHS England and Health Education England and as founder of Creative Hustle, an award-winning educational platform for young individuals from underrepresented groups. Alex has been doing postgraduate research in Innovation at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design alongside everything else. He's come a LONG WAY since his first taste of the tech world through an unpaid internship he took up before university and the future is looking even brighter. . . #Technology #techforgood #TechFounder #Diversity #Inclusion #BlackBritish #innovation #followfriday #ff #ai #creativehustle #tech #entrepreneur #work #business #poc #peopleofcolour #creativetechnology #tech
Let's change that now 🙋🏻‍♀️🙅🏿‍♂️🙋🏽‍♀️🙅🏾‍♂️🙋🏾‍♀️🙅🏽‍♂️🙋🏿‍♀️🙅🏻‍♂️ original image by @noa.vee via @greenboxshop . . #diversity #beauty #beautystandards #equality #identity #diaspora #eurocentric #selflove #selfcare #poc #peopleofcolour #representation #representationmatters
The UK's first festival celebrating Black women and girls is back and better. The team over at @blackgirlfest has been working hard and can't wait to share all the details with you! This year's festival will be focusing on facilitating the growth of black women and girls. Alongside carefully curated talks, workshops and masterclasses, they will be hosting a marketplace, food market, exhibitions, live performances, screenings and more. Join the waiting list to be the first to get your hands on limited early bird tickets on Monday 20 August. Link in @blackgirlfest bio 💥 . . . #blackgirlfest #diversity #equality #blackexcellence #london #festival #culture #identity #diaspora #sisterhood #beauty #representation #representationmatters
Big up @stormzyofficial who announced earlier his scholarship in partnership with Cambridge University to support black students with tuition and maintenance to study. 🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏿 #StormzyScholarship . . #representation #representationmatters #diversity #equality #university #education #cambridge #scholarship #support
Rest in peace, to the Queen or soul ❤️🎶 #arethafranklin
Today marks the 71st anniversary of the Pakistan and India partition when one country - India - was violently divided into two by the British Empire (East Pakistan eventually became Bangladesh in 1971). Not many people outside of the South-Asian diaspora will know about it, but the trauma and pain of the events still live on. As a British Indian and a British Pakistani from different religions, we want to take this opportunity to share a part of our heritage, as a way of healing and expressing solidarity in today’s political climate. This graphic was created last year, where we had picked out three poems about partition, by women from the South Asian diaspora, who’ve written about it in a much more moving, beautiful way than we ever could. . . #Partition #Identity #Diaspora #Partition70 #Pakistan #India #Bangladesh #BritishAsian #culture #ethnicity #SouthAsian #FemalePoetry #FemalePoets #WomenPoets #WomenPoetry #SouthAsianPoetry #diaspora #poetry
We love following @backtalk.studio alphabet illustrations highlighting influential people of colour // “Day I of the A-Z challenge is writer-producer-actress and creator of HBO’s Insecure and the web series The Misadventures is Awkward Black Girl, Issa Rae!....”As Ralph Ellison once posited, we’re invisible to them. We’re simply not on their radar. As long as the people who are in charge aren’t us, things will never change.” . . @issarae #illustration #digitalart #insta #latinxscreate #rolemodel #issarae #wocartist #blackgirlmagic #design #designer #illustrator
Who’s up for another competition? 😉Calling all theatre lovers 📣📣📣We have teamed up with Shakespeare's globe @the_globe and giving away 4 sets of tickets for their upcoming show on Saturday 🎟. We are giving you the opportunity to see Hip-hop Shakespeare Unplugged - Presented by Akala and The Hip-hop Shakespeare Company 🙌🏼🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏿 The renowned Hip-hop Shakespeare house band and a range of undiscovered young talent will storm the stage and bring to life extracts of Shakespeare’s best known plays and sonnets through powerful songs and hip hop beats 🎶. To WIN, tag your buddy you’d like to come along - you both need to be following @_theotherbox 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏾‍♂️🙋🏿‍♀️🙋🏼‍♂️ The tickets for the show will be allocated at random, so make sure you’re free on Saturday 18th August 🤞🏻🤞🏼🤞🏽🤞🏾🤞🏿competition closes on Thursday at 12pm, winners will be contacted Thursday afternoon! Good luck 🤞🏻🤞🏼🤞🏽🤞🏾🤞🏿 . . . #theatre #theatrelover #diversity #equality #representation #poc #peopleofcolour #shakespeare #race #identity #hiphop #socialcommentary
✨⚡️ MAJOR MOMENT ⚡️✨ Big up to @livslittle @charliebcuff and the whole @galdemzine team for their @guardian takeover. This is incredible, our hearts are so full and so proud of everyone involved in this iconic moment. THIS is how the mainstream media should look and be and @galdemzine DID THAT! Representation matters. OUR stories matter. Thank you @galdemzine 🙌🏼🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏿 . . #galdem #galdemtakeover #guardian #weekend #magazine #frontcover #representationmatters #diversitymatters #thenewnormal #diversity #whatatimetobealive #representation #ourstories #ourstoriesmatter #media
#TOBFollows @nkrystal_, a woman of HUGE talent who recently made the Forbes list of 100 Female Founders to watch in Europe 🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏿. She's the founder of @unmaskedwomen, an exhibition channelling the Black British Female experience through creatives, one of the Founding Directors of @blackgirlfest, The UK's first arts & cultural festival celebrating Black British women & girls (put 27 & 28 October 2018 in your diaries!) anddddd Head of Partnerships at @creativementornetwork. As well as this, she's a curator, cultural researcher, public speaker and programmer, so, you know, one busy bee and there's no stopping her! . . . #mentor #creative #ff #diversity #equality #representation #representationmatters #speaker #blackexcellence #woc #womenofcolour #curator #art #blackgirlfestival #rolemodel #culture #art #blackbritish
If you’re missing the sunshine ☀️💛☀️ Repost By @enamasiama // living my life like it's golden °○ Sun Goddess by @lindablacker - 📷 @LindaBlacker 💎bespoke jewellery by @suhaiylashakuwra - #ewurajaja #Lovemyself #psblogger #lindablacker #sungoddess #fatgirljoy #fatgirlmagic #bodypositive #plantlife #goddess #selflove #sunflower #golden #poetry #curvygirlsrock #blacknatural #afro #blackgirlskillingit #style #art #universodamaquiagem_oficial #plussize #plussizemodel #model #BlackGirlMagic #photography #beauty #makeup
Yassss honey 😍- who’s ready for @julieadenuga @ASOS x Made in Kenya collection COMING SOON?! 📸 @ashleyverse . . #ASOSMadeinKenya #SOKOKenya #fashion #asos #madeinkenya #culture #heritage #identity #fashion
COMPETITION TIME for theatre lovers 📣📣📣We have teamed up with Shakespeare's globe @the_globe and giving away 4 sets of tickets for their upcoming shows🎟. This week, we are giving you the opportunity to see Voices in the dark on Saturday - Personal stories written by young British Muslims, and never heard before on stage, performed alongside scenes devised by Intermission Youth Theatre @intermission_yt 🎭 . Witness the parallels between Shakespeare’s stories and these modern ones as pertinent scenes from his plays are weaved into the evening✨. To WIN, tag your buddy you’d like to come along - you both need to be following @_theotherbox 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏾‍♂️🙋🏿‍♀️🙋🏼‍♂️ The tickets for the show will be allocated at random, so make sure you’re free on Saturday 11th August 🤞🏻🤞🏼🤞🏽🤞🏾🤞🏿competition closes on Thursday at 7pm, winners will be contacted on Friday! Good luck! . . . #theatre #theatrelover #diversity #equality #representation #muslim #muslimvoices #poc #peopleofcolour #shakespeare #race #identity #britishmuslim
The #Beyonce interview took our breath away. Raw, open and honest on everything from motherhood, race to beauty standards. Make sure you check it out - we’ve shared on twitter and our fb group 🙌🏾✨ . . #beyonce #vogue #blackexcellence #history #culture #racism #diversity #equality #representation #representationmatters #beyoncé #beychella #interview #motherhood #beauty #beautystandards
Hoping your week is as gorgeous, bold and vibrant as this image of @queennyakim by 📷 @piokky and 💄 @breezymakeupart 😍❤️✨ . . #photography #woc #blackexcellence #creativity #artist #mua #makeup #diversity #beauty