Posts

Passage That Changed Me: Anna-Maria Poku on Bolu Balalola’s Love in…

Love in Colour is the reason I embrace love loudly In July 2019, I started a bookstagram. It was a completely spontaneous (though perhaps my best ever) decision. The…

March 9, 2023 3 reactions

Passage That Changed Me: Nali Simukulwa, Toni Morrison’s Beloved

How Toni Morrison helped me in balancing my sexuality and faith “In this here place, we flesh; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it hard. Yonder they do…

March 9, 2023 1 reaction

Passage That Changed Me: Sheetal Mistry on Meg Mason’s Sorrow and…

My depression doesn’t define me, and Meg Mason helped me see that Not a lot of people know this, but I’ve had depression since I was 16. The last 18 months have been…

March 9, 2023 1 reaction

Passage That Change Me: Nadira Begum on Joan Didion’s The Year of…

How Joan Didion helped me understand grief and its many faces "Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and…

March 9, 2023 1 reaction

Passage That Changed Me: Helen Ganya on Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H…

How Crying in H Mart helped me understand my Thai family’s love language "I remember these things clearly because that was how my mother loved you, not through white…

March 9, 2023 1 reaction

Supporting Trans People of Colour: Sabah Choudrey in conversation…

Sabah Choudrey and Yas Necati, joined by a live audience of gal-dem members at CitizenM Shoreditch, sat down to chat about Sabah’s brilliant book Supporting Trans People…

May 19, 2022 1 reaction Contains audio

Small Bodies of Water:Nina Mingya Powles in conversation with Jessica…

Jessica J Lee and Nina Mingya Powles sat down on the first day of ESEA Heritage Month to chat about Nina’s new collection of essays that explores the bodies of water…

September 30, 2021 1 reaction

After Work Chats with The Receipts and Vic Sanusi

The award winning podcasters sat down to chat about The Receipts podcast’s new book, ‘Keep the Receipts’ a love letter to sisterhood for millennial women. Recognised as…

September 30, 2021

Patrisse Cullors in conversation with Yomi Adegoke

In June we were joined by best-selling author, artist, activist and Co-founder and Former Executive Director of Black Lives Matter Global Network, Patrisse Cullors...

July 2, 2021 4 reactions Contains audio

Emma Dabiri in conversation with Moya Lothian-Mclean

Podcast recording Thank you so much to everyone who attended last night's members event with Emma Dabiri! We loved seeing so many of you there and can’t thank you enough…

May 21, 2021 2 reactions Contains audio

An evening with Raven Leilani Hello lovely gal-dem members! Our…

An evening with Raven Leilani Hello lovely gal-dem members! Our first event of 2021 for you all is here, with audio attached. With many of us resolving to read more…

January 26, 2021 2 reactions Contains audio

An evening with Layla Saad

Layla Saad speaks to author, Chanté Joseph, about her life, work and BLM

November 13, 2020 7 reactions Contains audio

gal-dem group chats: Rethinking Renting with Africa Daley-Clarke

As part of our gal-dem group chats series, our Lifestyle editor Niellah Arboine interviews Africa Daley-Clarke about the state of renting today, Africa's tips on making a…

August 25, 2020 2 reactions Contains audio

Bernardine Evaristo writers workshop

Bernardine Evaristo hosted an intimate writers workshop for some of our gal-dem nice members. You can listen back here

June 17, 2020 18 reactions Contains audio

Kimberly Drew in conversation with gal-dem's Mariel Richards

Kimberly and Mariel discuss art, activism and Kimberly's new book: 'This is What I Know about Art'

June 16, 2020 7 reactions Contains audio

Talking Tech, Women in Stem and Girls Decoded

Talking Tech, Women in Stem and Girls Decoded with Anne-Marie Imafadon and Rana El-Kallouby

June 12, 2020 12 reactions Contains audio

We've launched a membership model!

gal-dem has a membership model - read why here.

March 23, 2020 1 reaction