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The Stack World: How To Curate A Hotel Room As Picturesque As Its Caribbean Surroundings

Rae Elliman chats to Holly Cushing, the art consultant responsible for curating the atmosphere at Jamaica’s Geejam hotel.

Speeding through the hot, chaotic roads of Jamaica’s capital, Kingston, it’s hard to believe that just a couple of hours North-East by car is Port Antonio. Cooler in temperature thanks to mountains, sea and lush foliage, the small city is the crown jewel of Portland Parish, and is sedate by comparison to the capital, which holds Portland’s nearest airport. It’s also barely touched, even now…

Refinery29: What Emma Raducanu’s Rise Means To Me & British Asians Everywhere

It’s been a funny couple of years to be a British Asian. Something of a rollercoaster. Our new normal involves walking on eggshells to avoid being publicly lambasted for starting a global pandemic with our feral eating habits. At our lowest, we’ve feared for the lives of our peoples.

So perhaps this is one of our peaks: half Chinese, half Romanian Emma Raducanu’s exhilarating US Open win…

LAW Magazine: The Beating Heart Of Bethnal

You can find almost anything you might need on Bethnal Green Road. From a watch to fresh fruit and veg, ornate Indian gold to traditional Irish Claddagh rings, a phone repair, an outfit (either formal or casual) to a fridge/freezer, breakfast, lunch, dinner and a £3 eyebrow thread. To me, this is a perfect place, though not just because of what is available to buy - ever present along this moody but abundant stretch is a feeling that money cannot. Here exists a rare and balanced social ecosystem that cities like London once perfected. To create it requires decades, sometimes centuries. It cannot come to be without immigration and it cannot thrive without an open heart. And nestled between the washing machine stop and the stationers with the fruit stall out front is the beating heart of this place: Pelliccis…

La Catena: A Clementine Spritz Recipe by Missy Flynn, the Drinks Curator Behind London’s Coolest New Restaurant

Oh come all thee to an old faithful; the newest iteration of a London classic has landed — Rita’s. Birthed into the basement of an East London nightclub, Rita’s has grown up in symbiosis with London’s creative scene, developing first to a restaurant on Mare St, then to serving sandwiches at their cozy Bodega in Kings Cross. Now, as the evenings draw shorter and the festive season glitters on our calendars, Rita’s is the place to go for dinner on Lexington Street in Soho. And their drinks menu, curated by Missy Flynn, is always “seasonal first”…

The Stack World: I Drank Alcohol To Mask My Anxieties – Then Was Diagnosed With Pure OCD

The ‘Pure O’ or ‘purely obsessional’ type of OCD is characterised by distressing, intrusive thoughts and mental rituals to cope with them. Rae Elliman shares her experience of living with – and learning to manage – these hidden compulsions.

We’ve all said “I’m so OCD”, myself included. It is used as a badge of honour for most of us who like things to be organised or tidy, but I had never considered the real meaning of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder until I was diagnosed with the condition.

Until then, my understanding of OCD was led by the mainstream media that teaches us those with OCD compulsively turn lights on and off, count things or wash their hands until they are raw…

The stack world: Anti-Asian Racism: “COVID-19 Exposes An Age-Old Hatred That Makes Me Fear For My Family All Over Again”

I’ve been confiding in friends about my concern over the insidious rise in anti-Asian racism since this time last year, when the COVID-19 pandemic began, and political figures such as then-President of the United States Donald Trump, began referring to COVID-19 as the “China virus” or “Wuhan virus.”

Almost exactly a year ago, a photographer from the Washington Post even captured a photo of Trump’s notes during a press briefing, where the word “Corona” had been crossed out and replaced with “China,”…