On April 29th, the Guardian released another ground-breaking and explosive investigation that brought years’ worth of concealed wrongdoing to the surface. This time, alongside ‘sexual harassment’ and ‘bullying’ tags, Noel Clarke’s name was attached. Reading the piece aroused all-too-familiar dejavu. From 20 accounts of women being bullied and harassed by Clarke on-set, it was clear that there had been another Harvey Weinstein hiding in plain sight. Only this time, far younger

By Ellie Philips In 2019, Zadie Smith remarked that we are all ‘trapped in this flesh cage’. For no-one, perhaps, is this more true than for the black woman. The black female body has long been denied the privilege of neutrality. The Mammy, Jezebel and Sapphire stereotypes point to how the identities of black women have historically been constructed as tightly wedded to their physical attributes. The Mammy is the stout, maternal caregiver; the Jezebel; the sex symbol whose fe