Where are you from?
Born and raised in Brixton, with mixed South African and Scottish heritage.
What do you do?
I’m an artist and illustrator.
Where’s your favourite place?
At dinner?
Our current issue is The Activist Issue, what would you stand up for?
Political transparency. If you work for me, I want to know what you’re doing in my name.
Who do you look to for inspiration when it comes to standing up for what you believe in?
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Guerrilla Girls, Valerie Amos, Artemisia Gentileschi, Steve Biko, Simone de Beauvoir, M.I.A, Alicia Garcia, Immortal Technique, Thelma Golden, Suzanne Moore, Edward Snowden and of course – Korra!
If you could choose anyone in the world to be prime minister, who would you choose and why?
I’m not interested in supporting those kinds of figureheads, a functional democracy would ideally produce a kind of benevolent hydra. Policies should take precedence, not the antics of all these quaffling plutocratic halfwits.
What’s the best thing about being young in 2015?
We are a bit more comfortable with our own hypocrisy. The narrative that labels committed activists as extremists and those who only occasionally express solidarity as frauds is a lie. Besides, established forms of democratic engagement are outmoded – why roll down to the ballet box with grandma when I can join a Die In at Westfield and pick up a bargain at Zara in the same afternoon? It actually makes sense that we would put pressure on multinationals for what we see as a global issue, so I’d add that our multiculturalism allows us to not only think but also feel, globally.
Credits
Photography Josh Osborne