BBC Radio 4's Rethink series asks participants to share their thoughts on how the world should change in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. In her essay, author Emma Dabiri looks back at the ...

When I sit down with Emma Dabiri in her home in east London, I am fan-girling just a little. I finished her book Don’t Touch My Hair a few weeks before meeting, and I was blown away by the incredible ...

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Writer and academic Emma Dabiri on learning to reconcile her academic side with a love of fashion and makeup, the capitalism of beauty and why she’s glad social media wasn’t around in her teens "I’m ...

Feminists have been examining beauty standards and the ways in which our bodies are policed for a long time now, but Emma Dabiri’s new book still feels fresh, new and important, proving that there is ...

Emma Dabiri is a busy woman. The best-selling author, academic, and broadcaster is expertly multitasking — popping lunch on the stove while taking care of her 18-month-old son, joyfully gurgling in ...

Pre-Christian Irish and Yoruba beliefs share a reverence for the natural world. Whereas for the British colonist, value is derived from the individual. Western beauty standards are enmeshed with ...

Following the huge swell of support for the Black Lives Matter movement after the tragic death of George Floyd, conversations about racial inequality have been taking place all around the globe. Many ...

Ah, school picture day. That fateful day each school year when your image would be immortalised forever, whether your smile was less than photogenic, or your uniform less than pristine. It is hardly ...

Actor Niamh Algar and writer Emma Dabiri are two rising stars to watch in 2019, according to The Observer’s annual list. An Irish writer/scholar and an Irish actor have been named to British newspaper ...

"Originally published as "Don't Touch My Hair" in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso Despite increasingly liberal world views, Black ...