Bhavesh Jadva Bronze Gold Voice Team

Yes Samah! I'm glad you've said a lot of what you put here. I think however it could be an issue to suggest extra curricular arts activities are entirely inaccessible. As you and I know far too well there is good, public, free art out there for people to enjoy. I think a good balance needs to be struck in different areas of the country where school arts provision and community or public arts provision complement each other and work together to enable access to art where it's more needed - of course, a part of this does includes making sure it's affordable and cultural accepted.

Excellent thoughts here. I'm always glad to read feminist thinking that crosses intersections so thank you for this. Something that came to mind when reading this was Black Panther and how, as much as it champions the need for ethnically diverse films, really marked an innovative move toward complex representations of women in power.

I started out reading this and thought it was an overly sceptical examination but you make a good point. It's hard to see the demonstrated change brought by celebrities. However, and I am hardly condoning the strange motivations I'm about to put forward as perfect, I think even the semblance of activism, however facetious in reality, without attention brought to their lack of active action, can cause laypeople to do the hard work. Even though celebrities have largely sat pretty, they've been a driving force to get people to protests and set up petitions and speak loudly. Of course, ideally, change would come about far quicker if celebrities did more than tweet and outsource their activism through a bank transfer, but there is an odd benefit to the insignificant actions they're taking.

While I looove Bruno Mars' album, I think the whole world thought this was Kendrick's year.

What top choices!!

Yes Damon, you understand me! My fave so far in Untouchable because it's genuinely the very definition of WOKE.