‘Nothing is quite so exquisitely feminine as long locks. Mermaids, Disney princesses, Renaissance paintings – all of these art forms depict women with flowing tresses. Men like your long hair for the same reasons they like high heels and dresses; because it looks feminine.’

Nope, this isn’t a sardonic section from a feminist article from the New York Times, this is the gospel according to hair-development.com…

I write this from a very new space, I am a mother of 3, with an older bonus child. I am a lesbian also. But this lesbian is newly separated and learning who I am as a mother and woman again.

‘Parenthood’ was thrust on me, literally overnight. I put parenthood in inverted commas because I’m not yet a parent in the birth-right sense, but I am walking along the parenthood path, if you will. I’m a legal guardian to my now 14 year old cousin. And it happened overnight because my mum, who became my cousin’s legal guardian after his mum passed in 2018, suddenly passed herself a couple of weeks before Christmas, 2019.

Firstly, congratulations to Megan and Prince Harry, and let’s not forget Big Brother Archie! In a time when there is so much heavy, tiring and repetitive news, it’s nice to be reminded that joy does still occur! So the eighth in line to the throne is brewing, but what does that mean for a family who have deliberately taken a step back from Royal life?

It’s New Year’s Eve. 2019. I’m 3000 feet in the air in between London and Rome. Between time zones. Between years and decades. It’s got me thinking. Time. Passing. What do we really feel about it? I turn the page of the free aeroplane magazine decorated with a beautiful, young, woman who looks almost aroused by her age-reversing 2% retinol cream. Judging by the multi-billion-dollar anti-aging market, we are not so keen.

My mother always said not to get caught up in any trouble, as being black, I would be the one people would blame. Of course, I didn’t believe her. I always knew this was a way…

I used to say I was born in Croydon which was actually a lie. I was born in a hospital in Kent, to a blonde-haired-blue-eyed-forty-something-year-old woman and an African…

Is ‘manifesting’ and ‘working the laws of attraction’ the new ‘Netflix and Chill’? We know that we are officially the post milk generation… so are we the official post religion generation too?

Our very own Dope Black Mum Endy Mckay has been away in Copenhagen this half term. In 2016 Endy and her single mother friend decided to take their five year olds away to…