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Author: Aysha Abdulrazak

Aysha Abdulrazak is a writer, critic and illustrator. She has worked in the education sector for several years. Aysha is interested in the power of words and creating more productive self-narratives. She is currently working on a project to promote self-empowerment and self-love in children. Follow Aysha on Instagram @aysha_azk. To see Aysha’s illustration project with Banan Alkhazraj, Bananabread, follow them on Instagram @bananabreadnco and @aa.doodles

Interview with Shaynae Walcott of Sugared & Sprayed: ‘I am a proud black woman’

3rd December 20204th December 2020  Aysha Abdulrazak

Aysha Abdulrazak meets with entrepreneur and founder of Sugared & Sprayed, Shay Walcott, to discuss the ancient art of sugaring, speaking your hopes into existence, the beauty of black women and building an organisation that supports women of colour from the get-go.

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Posted in Health and Wellbeing, InterviewsTagged: beauty, beauty industry, black women, BLM, BLM 2020, Covid-19, hair, hair removal, London Sugaring Company, Ropo Demure, Shay Walcott, Shaynae Walcott, Spray-tanning, Stephanie King, Sugared & Sprayed, Sugaring

Racialised Representations of the Girl Squad

18th November 20207th January 2021  Aysha Abdulrazak

Shows like Dear White People, I May Destroy You and Insecure are to be applauded for focusing on friendships between black women. But, argues, Aysha Abdulrazak, to what extent are these being informed by a white supremacist lens? And who are they for?

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Posted in Arts, Film and MediaTagged: BBC, Dear White People, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Friends, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Girls, Girls Trip, HBO, I May Destroy You, Insecure, Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, Lockdown Living, Michaela Coel, netflix, Pandemic, Sex and the City

Shipwreck at the Almeida Theatre

28th March 201928th March 2019  Aysha Abdulrazak

With a stellar cast and a who’s who in US politics, Anne Washburn’s Shipwreck is the perfect play to explore Trump’s presidency in the era of entertainment by news.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Almeida, America, Anne Washburn, Donald Trump, Elliot Cowan, Fisayo Akinade, Jim Jones, Justine Mitchell, Khalid Abdalla, liberalism, Politics, Risteárd Cooper, Rupert Goold, Shipwreck, Tara Fitzgerald, Theatre, Twitter

Superhoe by Nicôle Lecky at the Royal Court Theatre

20th February 201921st February 2019  Aysha Abdulrazak

Nicôle Lecky’s powerful and unsettling one-woman play, Superhoe, looks at the sexualisation and fetishisation of women of colour in a social media-addicted patriarchal world.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Black Mirror, blackfishing, Nicole Lecky, Royal Court Theatre, Sexualisation of female bodies, Social media, superhoe, White male gaze
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