Blogs & Updates
Living With HIV and AIDS
World Aids Day, 1st December, is a worldwide campaign to promote HIV awareness, fight stigma and discrimination and share important information about HIV. A huge part of the campaign is also to support and encourage HIV testing, promote treatment, support those living...
22 Black Women In The North East To Celebrate This Black History Month
Another year another Black History Month that is once again full of events, conferences and celebrations to mark the awesome and amazing black people we have in our communities. Black people who day in and day out continue to make Britain what is it today, but seldom...
Announcing ‘Teakisi Woman Talk’ – 2022 Speakers!
We hope that you have your calendars marked, because we’re only a little over a week away from the 4th Teakisi Woman Talk - our annual Black History Month conference. Community organisations and members of the public will be heading to The Common Room to join us on a...
Unapologetically African
I spent half of last Saturday in one of the most beautiful buildings in Newcastle, The Catalyst - a beacon for data and healthy ageing innovation. Just a seven-minute walk from St James Metro station in the centre of Newcastle, The Catalyst is one of the best venues...
Be a Friend Not An Enemy
"Each age comes with its pressures" were my mother's words a few years back. Back then, this quote did not make sense but fast forward to the present, and the quote with only six words speaks volumes. There was a stage in my life when my peers and I believed that the...
Aminata Alice Yajoh, Visual and Performing Artist
Aminata Alice Yajoh is a self-taught artist from the Gambia. She is in her early twenties and a School of Public Health graduate of The Gambia College. Aminata is one of the country's few promising women in a male-dominated art community. Her paintings portray her...
Nepotism
Will I be disappointed if I am rejected before entering the interview room? Yes. Will I, however, find solace in the fact that the position was never mine to begin with? Definitely. Will I possibly undermine the skill and intelligence of the individual who profited...
In The Stillness I Wept
“One minute I am floating, and the next minute it feels like I have been hit by a bus.” These are the words I told my therapist the first time I visited her a few months ago. I was hurt and hopeless, and although I hoped that the pain would go away, I had learnt to...
Cohabitation, The New Normal We Must Learn More About
I'll start today with a story, one told by a friend. There's this mental health group where people talk about the essential aspects of life and the things to watch out for, and it's from here, the topic of cohabitation came up. This started like a piece of advice that...