Spring is here! We’re prepping for this new season of growth by decluttering. That’s right – it’s time to Marie Kondo our way to a refreshed mind, body, and soul.

We don’t have the answers to everything, but these 5 steps might help with getting started.

I’ve been thinking about what makes me happy. Do I need to travel? Is music the most important thing? Is it friendships, relationships, and love? Or does it all boil down to spending time in the sunshine?

Have you ever been in an old abandoned cinema full of people gently weeping? This was the experience at EartH Hackney when Adrianne Lenker played.

Decriminalised Futures at the ICA highlights the multiplicity of contemporary sex worker experiences. In line with the global sex workers’ rights movement, the exhibition demands that sex work is work – so sex workers deserve the same rights as workers in any other industry.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’ve compiled a list of 7 amazing women who inspire positivity, to help us grow into this new season with awareness, confidence, and self-love.

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.

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?

Peek into the launch party for Lone Design Club’s pop-up store in Covent Garden, where we spoke with designers and uncovered the stories behind the brands centering sustainability.

It can’t all be hustle and productivity. It’s important to allow time for rest and recovery: just as going to the gym is easier when you’re well-rested, you will feel stronger mentally when you allow your mind to rest.

Londrelle spreads a message of joy and resilience: through self-love and mindfulness, he shares how we can overcome the darkest moments of life. Stay Free is about good vibrations, spirituality, manifestation, meditation, and appreciation, all combined with chill-hop beats and relaxing vibes.

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.

To celebrate Black History Month, GIFTED is spotlighting ‘HEAVY’, by our very own Vicky Pasion.

Take a moment to sit and slow down with Soul Star Vicky Pasion. ‘To start the year, I’m proud to announce the support from the MOBOs for my next EP! As we welcome in a new month, I feel that it’s important to take some time to reflect and celebrate our wins - big and small.’

It’s warm under the duvet, and it’s cold outside. The sun is not streaming through the curtains, because it’s not ready to wake from its bed of clouds yet, either. The to-do list is piling up, but the motivation is not. Where do you go from here?

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.

Here at GIFTED, we lift each other up. Success is not a race to the top, completed by tearing others down. Instead, it’s a lifelong process.

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.

As part of Autograph ABP’s open call, they opened up space for kam + pita, friends whose pandemic survival work led them to cultivating an intentional playlisting practise.

‘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…

Name: Mohammed Aliyu

GIFTED: Director of Stickit Treats

My name is Mohammed Aliyu. I was born and raised in Nigeria for 8 years before moving to the UK, to a small village called Soham, near Newmarket.