Racism

Liv Little on feminism, racial stereotypes and founding gal-dem: an online magazine by and for women of colour DTL: What made you want to set gal-dem up? Liv: I just finished university, like last week. I was at the University of Bristol studying Politics and Sociology and it was during my second year there, that I

Rufaro Mazarura lists 6 things she is tired of hearing as a black girl 1. Is that your real hair? Okay, my hair, whether it be natural, relaxed, extensions, a weave, braids or even a wig does in fact, belong to me. I’ve paid a lot of money, dealt with a whole-lotta nonsense to get

Life as a transwoman of colour can be a very challenging and solitary existence In the patriarchal and gender-biased world we live in, it is extremely challenging for someone assigned ‘male’ at birth, to assume their femininity. Society makes it very hard, almost impossible. A transwoman’s journey to womanhood is one ridden with one challenge