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International Women’s Day - #BreakTheBias

At GIFTED, we celebrate women in all stages of the creative process. As a female-led team, we #BreakTheBias by supporting women behind the lens as well as in front of it. You’ve heard that the future is female – we’re saying that this future is now. Check out our list of great groups taking action against inequality to help women and girls thrive!

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#StandWithUkraine

As protests have erupted worldwide against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we want to show our solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

We’ve rounded up some resources where you can find out more about the current situation, and how to help those in need.

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Culture Maria Green Culture Maria Green

Queer Visibility

As alternative sexualities and gender identities have become increasingly mainstream, so has the inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters in popular TV shows and films. But with visibility higher than ever, some raise concerns about its superficiality — can we really use media representation as a measure of progress?

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LGBTQ+ History Month: Books You Should Read

LGBTQ+ History Month: Books can help us to expand our understanding of each other beyond our own experience. With that in mind, we’ve chosen a few of our favourite LGBTQ+ books – both fiction and nonfiction, some new and some old – that you should add to your reading list this year.

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Rindon Johnson’s Virtual Sublime

Rindon Johnson is a Berlin-based artist who creates his work with both physical materials and virtual spaces. In his integration of virtual and actual realities, he questions the ways in which the virtual and physical, as well as the imagined and the remembered, are connected.

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Culture Sarra Haji Culture Sarra Haji

MLK DAY

This Martin Luther King Jr. piece stems from that place. I think that we all need to use our voice and talents in whichever way we can to help to fight injustice and raise awareness.

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Culture Kio Briggs Culture Kio Briggs

King Richard

‘King Richard’ is an inspirational true story. Expect to be affirmed on many lessons for success, and messages of humility, patience and honesty, which are bountifully woven throughout this story…

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Culture Vicky Pasion Culture Vicky Pasion

Stop Asian Hate

The Asian diaspora is made up of 48 countries - several communities that deserve their own space to feel seen and heard.

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Culture Vicky Pasion Culture Vicky Pasion

Who Run The World?

As a female-led business, we understand the importance of safe spaces for womxn to thrive. As GIFTED, this Womxn’s Month, we’ve embraced a month of highlighting the womxn within our international community - womxn of grace, strength and ambition.

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Culture Kio Briggs Culture Kio Briggs

The Fight For A New Uganda

With all that’s currently being reported on in the United States, as extremist supporters of President Trump stormed the US Capitol last Wednesday afternoon, in such a fashion that has been described as an act of domestic terrorism.

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Culture Kio Briggs Culture Kio Briggs

RISE

The world is a much smaller place since 1998, I remember it was the year I first watched the ‘The Lion King’. As a boy, no older than six years old at the time, I remember quite vividly singing ‘I just can’t wait to be King’.

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Culture Kio Briggs Culture Kio Briggs

We No Go Gree: #EndSARS

“We no go ‘gree” is a popular phrase in Nigerian pidgin; it translates to: “We will not agree”, or, “We do not accept”. Today of all days feels like an opportune day to chant around the world “We no go ‘gree.”

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