The Act of Writing

Hamilton wins his 7th title Today, February 8th 2021, the news broke that Sir Lewis Hamilton has signed a one year deal to continue racing in Formula One with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team. This follows on from the 2020 season, where Hamilton equaled the great Michael Schumacher's 7x world championship titles and became the most successful F1 driver ever, with the most race wins of any driver attributed to his name. The 2020 season took place amidst a global pandemic, and because of this, Formula One ran the slogan: We Race As One, designed to take a performative stance of solidarity with the masses struggling through the multiple national lockdowns.  A massive wave of anti-racist sentiment also gripped the world in 2020, following the brutal killing of George Floyd, and Black Lives Matter protests were seen across the world. The We Race As One slogan was quickly co-opted to stand as a message of equality with not just the BLM movement, but as a blanket statement calling for eq...

Catch Captain Marvel, in cinema's now The moment that every fragile, white, male lover of superhero movies has been dreading, has arrived. Captain Marvel  landed in theatres this weekend, and it's the first  Marvel  movie of this year. This film had a lot to prove. Firstly, it follows on from  DC's immensely popular Aquaman,  which grossed over $1 billion and has quickly elevated Marvel's  competitor to very high heights. Secondly, it is the first MCU movie to be lead by *shock horror* a woman, instead of the boringly same-y, crusty, white dude (Black Panther excepted. ) Finally, it has to both set up the new leader of the next ten years of Marvel movies, as well as building hype for the next film in the series, the highly anticipated Avengers: Endgame. Now, I am a huge Marvel fan, as I'm sure I have mentioned in other posts. I am also a white woman, which makes me the epitome of target audience for this film. That being sai...