The Botched Bad Boys Reenactment of the 94th Academy Awards — In the 1999 classic “The Anthem” by Sway & King Tech, the featured Chino XL raps, “You’re wack like Will Smith, your rhyme-style is pansy,” clearly throwing shades at Smith’s simplistic gummy-bear lyrics. Well, Smith’s 2022 “pimp-slap” also left much to be desired and will likely become the butt of…

How Social Media Turns Creative Teenagers Into Sexualised Influencers — As a likely future father and a current uncle to several adorable nieces and a nephew, I’m concerned. I’ll begin with a story, followed by a much needed rant. Act I— The Artist It’s early morning. Noella positions the cool lacquered body of her guitar against hers. …

Written by a Pale Swede — There are a lot of blanket statements being tossed about the internet these days. Such as how white people can’t endure or have an opinion on racism. It’s a blatant overgeneralisation that ties into an intuitive dehumanisation approach taken by today’s many opposing ideologies, virtually flooding Twitter and platforms alike. …

The Ugly Byproducts of a Heterodox Mindset — A societal underbelly whose flesh we ate and regurgitated over the grey of the inner-city, while wearing its flayed off skin like some Lecter-esque visors of apathy. Cinematic, perhaps, but quite the reality. Part I — The Sociocultural Context We were young men in a world reduced to a few block’s radius of ethnic diversity; edged…

Toxic Ideals and a Lack of Fatherly Advice — There I was, an eleven-year-old, stuck between a block of abandoned offices and a defunct parking lot with a screwdriver pressed against my ribcage. He demanded what was mine with eyes that spoke a language of their own. I was told to either hand over one of my cigarettes —…