https://michaelamakusha.co.uk/about daily 1.0 2026-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/af3d49d2-bba0-4da5-bdd6-bae1c8df3764/IMG-20261018-WA0043.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/55d7a529-7b53-4382-a8e4-ee0d38282421/PXL_20240830_161621137.PORTRAIT.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/368bd138-eb21-4985-9f6f-2e8b648e0d04/IMG-20261018-WA0038.jpg https://michaelamakusha.co.uk/features-and-essays daily 0.75 2026-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/c4c1140d-8bf2-4554-a869-b73d0c21df9b/Screenshot_20240912-132620.png Features and Essays Two smiling women sitting together above an article headline about the best books on female friendship https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/e3e9f0c9-ea2c-459c-b2e6-0e3f25af8d4b/Screenshot_20250613-124041.png Features and Essays New Beacon Books bookstore storefront with books displayed in the window https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/bf06b18a-2bf9-4740-9780-49084ef34115/Screenshot_20250308-110706.png Features and Essays Naked Politics article page titled “Gender Z: The Growing Divide Between Young Men and Women,” featuring Donald Trump, Andrew Tate, Joe Rogan, and Nigel Farage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/59596035-7d8f-49f5-b344-52af3ca39270/Screenshot_20241009-114419.png Features and Essays Article cover about achieving equality for Afro-textured hair in the UK, featuring a person with natural textured hair wearing a denim jacket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/de860b7c-8229-446e-9158-fd319eab9485/Screenshot_20240615-201837.png Features and Essays Pro-Palestinian student protest outside Oxford University holding a sign reading “Oxford Uni complicit in genocide.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/0d693bdf-0787-46c2-a620-0894423cbc22/Screenshot_20250605-081233.png Features and Essays Article page titled “A newer, cleverer kind of racist,” featuring a photo of an English Defence League rally in Birmingham in 2009 with protesters raising their fists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/cee4014d-5e55-4162-b6d0-ddd5af54abe6/Screenshot_20250423-133853.png Features and Essays Article graphic about Birmingham’s waste crisis, showing overflowing garbage bags and bins on a residential street with a man riding an electric scooter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/e25292a1-9b6b-4bfb-ae3a-aae761ea2be7/Screenshot_20250617-064021.png Features and Essays Colorful editorial graphic featuring Mumford & Sons performing onstage with guitars and microphones, beneath the headline “My unexpected Pride icon: they were not cool, but bands like Mumford & Sons eased the turmoil of coming out.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/44a6d6a1-a3b0-4496-b944-e6784d933098/Screenshot_20240808-214048.png Features and Essays Teen Vogue article page featuring a protest crowd and a “Stand Up to Racism” sign, with the headline “UK Racist Anti-Immigrant Riots Should Come As No Surprise.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/8819481f-6c0a-48e6-b26f-dae733e3971b/Screenshot_20250628-065909.png Features and Essays Article graphic titled “Outrageous is Downton Abbey, with added Nazis,” featuring a woman in a red dress and feathered shawl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/956679a7-8f91-4ccd-92b9-cb15a9bcb99f/Screenshot_20250523-092007.png Features and Essays Black Ballad article graphic featuring a Black woman with long braids and the headline “Excuse Me, Your Misogyny Disguised As Pro-Blackness Is Showing.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/7d45424f-55ff-4312-8c66-0a1f003edd2f/Screenshot_20250308-002825.png Features and Essays The New European article titled “The hypocrisy of Kemi Badenoch,” featuring Kemi Badenoch in a blue dress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/e8381609-5a99-4df2-bd0b-e394136c2011/Screenshot_20250313-140029.png Features and Essays The New European article titled “Women’s voices in a world that still questions them,” featuring a sepia photo of author Virginia Woolf in London in 1939. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/d0709529-9ed5-4cff-9eab-d0d8a6f710aa/Screenshot_20250611-201430.png Features and Essays Opinion article titled “I am 23. I miss Club Penguin and the safe, old days of the noughties internet” by Michaela Makusha, featuring a portrait and colorful Club Penguin characters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/c8aca371-b9b0-401f-b217-75d87feef068/Screenshot_20260422-180928.png Features and Essays EE72 article cover featuring a person using a pay phone, titled “On representation and morality: What do we want from Black women on screen?” by Michaela Makusha. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/4e0a6d00-c0c6-44bb-a342-ad598789f9b1/Screenshot_20260417-152927.png Features and Essays Screenshot of an article titled “Stonehenge, carnival, folk and fascists: how Zakia Sewell went in pursuit of the real story of Britain,” with a subtitle, author Michaela Makusha, publication date, and social sharing icons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/ef15f897-c5f6-4131-b5b3-a4467790881a/Screenshot_20260315-102053.png Features and Essays Magazine interview page featuring actor Shazad Latif smiling in a black jacket and red hoodie against floral wallpaper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/d2d6b516-1812-45c1-926d-de37c1b02c57/Screenshot_20260117-100015.png Features and Essays British Vogue Theatre article featuring six cast members of Whitney White’s Shakespeare production posed in a wood-paneled room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/d6152a77-425b-46e1-b173-3dec6289e0a2/Screenshot_20260127-113555.png Features and Essays Article cover featuring five South Asian women standing together, with text about their underrepresentation in British sport and women pushing for change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/590e245a-03bd-43bd-9e54-17fec06abd9e/Screenshot_20260331-160704.png Features and Essays Service95 article header for “Six Writers, Six Histories You Weren’t Taught,” featuring three people embracing. https://michaelamakusha.co.uk/profiles-interviews daily 0.75 2026-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/eea791bd-8b49-40f1-910e-d345991cb9f7/Perrie-Edwards-cover-scaled.jpg Profiles & Interviews Black-and-white digital cover of 1883 Magazine featuring Perrie Edwards in a black leather jacket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/4138577e-e4c9-438d-9404-8cfe59cec1ca/99059.jpeg.1280x0_q70.webp Profiles & Interviews Smiling bearded man in a burgundy hoodie and black jacket against floral wallpaper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68629bbddb29af75f5e6f4ea/b9f02f91-1bd0-43bf-ba39-a2f0b1e81ec5/Beaches-by-Meg-Moon-1536x1118.png Profiles & Interviews Four young women posing together against a light gray background, wearing edgy contemporary outfits. 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