It’s been a long journey. A journey filled with despair, anticipation and, for the most part, stillness. There were moments when we felt like nothing would ever change. And there were times where the world would pretend to listen to us. PHOTOGRAPHER | NICK STERKENBURGSTYLIST | HAYLEY CLUTTERBUCKWORDS BY CYNTHIA TAYLU But every time we
‘The self’ is evolving, and for the most part, the self sometimes questions itself -Or more so who it’s becoming. More than ever, I look back on my former years – where I was born, the environment in which I was raised, the sacrifices my family made for me, the impact my friends have rendered
The stats simplify the reality of this context in which we are living. The mind is not doing well. The mind is not doing well, at all. The heart is unsure how to help the mind cope with the world in which we are living. Even without seeing the stats, or doing any kind of
The dream comes in waves. It washes over our lives and swells through our veins. It’s an unparalleled feeling; the wave can’t be ignored once it crests. For the lucky ones, the dream was never nebulous, but always a known truth. For others, the dream moulds itself into different shapes; gives us permission to dissect,
TO SHAVE OR NOT TO SHAVE? If you were to hear a woman was “going au naturel” – aka abstaining from the shave – what sort of image would that conjure? For many, it seems to bring forth visions of a bra-burning, man-hating, feminist warrior, who believes that their refusal to depilate is of patriarchy-dismantling