by Heady Mix | Jun 27, 2020 | Personal Essays
by Justina Cruickshank, Chief Curator and Founder, Heady Mix When I was in my twenties, I attended a girl’s ‘night in’ that a Black friend of mine organised. She had cajoled a wealthy Black male friend of hers to loan us his flat so we could enjoy...
by Heady Mix | Oct 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Heady Mix is still a new book box, and with sales now in full swing, we thought it would be worth telling you a little more about what awaits you inside our colourful book boxes. As well as the basics on how subscriptions book boxes work… What is a subscription...
by Heady Mix | Sep 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
In the West, we’re all accustomed to widespread ideas about the future. Flying cars, robots, extraterrestrial travel, and although these ideas are far-flung and imaginative, how inclusive and diverse they are is a different question. YouTuber Diana in Colour...
by Heady Mix | Sep 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
In her video, @dianaincolour shares an excellent introduction to Afrofuturism – a term that has become more popular since 2018’s film, Black Panther. As @dianaincolour explains, writers, artists and musicians have been creating Afrofuturistic work for...
by Heady Mix | Aug 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Due to inherited deafness, 1 in 25 people, in Martha’s Vineyard, were deaf by the 1850s – compared with a national US average of one in every 5,728 people. Such circumstances meant that the islanders developed their own sophisticated sign language, used by...
