Articles

Freelance

HuffPost: Wes Streeting Is Wrong. ADHD Is Not Overdiagnosed, I Should Know.

The Lead: After Shamima Begum, who’s next?

Container Magazine: Caption This

The iPaper: I’m 25 and in £11,000 worth of debt – but I won’t sacrifice joy to pay it off quickly

The Guardian: I sympathise with Lily Allen on untenable pets – I love my cats but I don’t see how I can keep them

The Stage: Swipe up: How TikTok became home to musical theatre’s rising stars

VICE: Transgender Healthcare Is at Breaking Point In This Corner of Europe

Insider: In High School Musical, Troy and Gabriella were always real villains

Glamour: As someone who was adopted as a baby, I’m here to tell you that no child should be treated like an unwanted Christmas gift

Digital Spy: Sierra Capri on defying stereotypes and saying goodbye to Monse in On My Block season 4

Women’s Health: Therapy TikToks Are Spiking in Popularity – but Are They Helpful, or Harmful?

Women’s Health: ‘The Pandemic Has Isolated Me From My Queer Family’

Women’s Health: 4 LGBTQ+ Athletes on How Sport Has Become More Inclusive

gal-dem: My mother used our culture as an excuse for emotional abuse

gal-dem: Bridgerton offers us the myth of a post-racial Britain that doesn’t exist

gal-dem: I can’t vote in today’s election, here’s why you should

gal-dem: RIP Tumblr: no longer a safe haven for POC to express their sexuality

Radio Times: The Investigation review: A slow-burn drama that refuses to fall into the traps of true 

Diva Magazine: Four queer books getting me through lockdown

Diva Magazine: Is Happiest Season’s Harper a villain or a victim?

Metro: How toxic productivity shaming and hustle culture harms our wellbeing

Metro: My dad and I got matching tattoos – it means so much more now he’s gone

Metro: Like Brexit, the Hong Kong protests are creating rifts within families

Shado Magazine: Seeds for change: the legacy of Robin Hood’s week long reign on Reddit

Azeema Magazine: A very different Lunar New Year

The Independent: Now we know the details, the ‘Friends’ reunion is set to be an insulting disappointment

The Independent: Police have no place at future Pride marches. Queer people of colour want to feel safe

Stylist: Mother and daughter relationships: women with complicated relationships with their mums share how they feel

Full time roles

The Big Issue

I was previously a reporter at the Big Issue, covering climate and environment. Here are a selection of my digital and print pieces:

Meet the inventors ‘on a mission to make plastic disappear’ – with seaweed

The NHS is ‘past the point of no return’ say junior doctors bearing the brunt of the NHS crisis

The environmental campaigner on a mission to ban disposable vapes

5 key takeaways from a damning review of the government’s net zero progress

Scotland aims to cut car use by creating ’20-minute neighbourhoods’ in net zero push

The pop culture milestones that helped shape LGBTQ+ history

‘Our education system is failing to teach us’: Why Nadia Whittome is joining forces with students to push climate education in the national curriculum

Cash for cans? What you need to know about the government’s new recycling reward scheme

Renewable energy: How does the UK compare to other countries?

Other pieces can be found on my author profile here.

Insider

I was a fellow on the Digital Culture desk at Insider, based in London, for four months. While there, I wrote a number of stories relating to internet influencers, viral TikToks, and online conversations.

‘One-stop hate shop’: Andrew Tate’s rise to TikTok superstardom is fueling violent misogyny and men’s rights extremism

Strippers are making TikToks about their negative experiences to debunk the glamorized portrayal of their jobs on ‘StripTok’

TikToks by crime-scene cleaners are gaining millions of views, but the gruesome content has led to backlash and even legal trouble

Inside the rise and fall of Gabbie Hanna: How a decade of online feuds and controversies culminated in a TikTok frenzy that dominated the internet and had fans concerned

Parents are posting TikToks of their kids reacting to ‘The Little Mermaid’ trailer in response to racist attitudes towards casting Halle Bailey as the lead

The Try Guys built a hugely successful YouTube channel as uncontroversial nice guys. Then explosive cheating rumors changed everything.

This weekend, Twitch’s biggest streamers meet for TwitchCon, but the run-up has seen the platform embroiled in intense backlash and controversy

A 24-year-old tweeted about her morning coffee routine with her husband. 10 hours later she was inundated with hate and criticism.

Meredith from ‘The Parent Trap’ was TikTok’s main character this summer. Elaine Hendrix, who played the iconic 90s role, is leaning in.

Other pieces can be found on my author profile here.

BBC

I worked as a Journalism Researcher on the BBC’s News Podcasts team, specifically focusing on the If You Don’t Know podcast, which is aimed at young Black Britons and hosted by Newsbeat presenter De-Graft Mensah.

As part of my role, I wrote features relating to the stories we covered on the podcast.

Campus racism: Suspended students ‘disillusioned’ over photo row

‘I thought being black meant I couldn’t get skin cancer’

Shift Work

Pink News

All pieces can be found on my author profile

Metro Lifestyle

All my shift work can be found on my author profile

Green Queen Magazine

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Digital Spy

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Bustle

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MyLondon

All pieces can be found on my author profile