On Accountability and Queen Elizabeth II’s Legacy [as a Coloniser]
Life experience provides the context through which we see the world. Evidently, as a child of a colonised nation, my views of the monarchy are coloured by such experiences.
The 10 Best Books I Read in 2021
She may have taken a four-and-a-half-year hiatus but book-nerd Praise is back and truly thriving. Here are some details on the 10 best books I read this year. In order because I love competition.
Heroes, Their Humanity and Our Pedestals
You know how people always say you should never meet your heroes? I would like to expand on that – probably don't google them either.
You Can’t Moralise Your Eating Habits
I could write a whole post on just the definitions of diet culture, but in a nutshell, it is a set of believes that worships thinness and equates it with health and moral virtue.
Don’t Revoke My Black Card
The black community has it hard enough on every continent without the addition of this. Immigrant children living in the diaspora have enough identity crises already.
Into the Unknown
Outside of studying and trying to find a formal dress, I spent a lot of time during the end of high school struggling with unanswered questions, uncertainty and the lingering sense of feeling lost. Sounds fun doesn’t it?