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Starting from his film My Father’s Shadow, set in Lagos in 1993, Akinola Davies Jr. reflects on how memory, both personal and collective, shapes the way he approaches cinema. Moving between the UK and Nigeria, his work draws from a diasporic perspective that resists linear, Western storytelling, embracing instead atmosphere, fragmentation, and cultural specificity. Blending political context with …

The myth of the hustle has reshaped how success is measured, turning relentless productivity into a moral imperative. Within this framework, Black excellence risks becoming both a survival strategy and a standard set by systems that were never built to include Blackness. 

Ballroom was born in New York’s Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ community in the 1970s, at a time when survival often meant creating your own spaces of care, resilience, and resistance. Houses became chosen families, offering not only creativity and performance, but also protection, guidance, and solidarity.