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Best Gift Ideas for Mother’s Day 2021
With us immersed this season in our theme Windrush, it's only fitting that our gift ideas for Mother’s Day 2021 celebrate Windrush descendants and Caribbean female-owned businesses. From fun greeting cards to unusual plants and exciting diverse books to cool...
A Different Kind of Love: Goddesses That Sustain Their People, Part 2
In this second part of our love goddesses series, we’ll have a look at goddesses from the Far East, the Indian subcontinent, Oceania, Latin America, and indigenous peoples in North America. Far from being lost in history, some of these goddesses have strong...
Come as you are: London Windrush Stories
London: its vibrancy as a city is magnetic, always has been. A melting pot of cultures that entices, invites, beckons - ‘come as you are.’ For the LGBTQI+ community, London offered a place of relative freedom in the 1980s. For the punks of the 70s, the capital was...
Alice Farkas | Feb 15, 2021 | 0 Comments
A Different Kind of Love: Goddesses That Sustain Their People, Part 1
With Valentine's Day come thoughts of love. To many of us, this means chocolates, hearts, and the goddesses Aphrodite, Venus, and maybe Freyja. But what of the rest of the world, far from Europe? Goddesses, as their people do, get transported, mixing and mingling...
The Windrush Mothers: balancing stereo with stereotype
Consider the sounds of the Caribbean, the beat, the patter, the rhythm of a tropical life, where the heat and humidity drive social events into the cooler hours of the late evening, outside and open. For so many, although of course not all, these were the sounds...
Alice Farkas | Feb 3, 2021 | 0 Comments
7 Best Subscription Boxes to Gift for Valentine’s Day
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, why not treat yourself and those around you to some love, care and quality time with a thoughtfully curated subscription box. Many of us have been working indoors more than usual during the pandemic, while others are busy all...
Claiming a country that did not claim me back: an interview with Nicole Dennis-Benn
Last month, we interviewed the New York Times bestselling author, Nicole Dennis-Benn about her book Here Comes the Sun, which featured in our June 2020 collection, Section 28 - stories from the LGBTQI+ community in parts of the world where their identity is...
Alice Farkas | Jan 23, 2021 | 0 Comments
Behind the box insights and why the Windrush theme was difficult to curate
Imagine waking up tomorrow and being told you no longer had the right to stay and live in your home. That is exactly what befell the Windrush generation, immigrants from Caribbean commonwealth countries who were legally entitled to move to and settle in the UK. It...
Heady Mix | Jan 14, 2021 | 0 Comments
Out of sight, out of mind: Australia’s offshore detention centres
“Forgive me, my bird, as I am not able to embrace you. But here I know some immigrant birds. I smile at them at the crack of dawn and I embrace them with open arms. […] The man loves you, inside a cage located between the vastest ocean and the greenest...
Alice Farkas | Jan 7, 2021 | 0 Comments
Best 2020 Christmas gifts for book lovers
Bookworms' shelves are stocked all year round with prizewinners, debut fiction and sequels. So when it comes to Christmas, what’s left to buy the bibliophiles when their ‘to read’ list is already backlogged into 2021. At Heady Mix HQ we’re well accustomed to...
Heady Mix | Dec 8, 2020 | 0 Comments
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