Tala Josephine Woods is a London based freelance writer and poet. She has written for Advertising Week Europe, and her poetry has been published in books as well shared on across poetry accounts on social media. You can find her @talawrites on instagram, or contact her via talawritesalot @ gmail.com for commission based work or enquires.
Almost four years ago I moved to London, filled with excitement of living in one of the most electrifying cities in the world. I was eighteen, just starting university and filled to the brim with...
Over the past few years, “stick and poke” tattoos have been re-gaining their rightly deserved spot in tattoo culture across the globe. With the “stick and poke” method being the simplest way...
I'm sitting with Jessica Hazell, an Australian artist who encapsulates the beauty that is the human body via oil paint while working at a coffee shop in East London, as well as Alex Beighton, a...
As I hear the electric shaver graze against the back of my head while sitting in a hairdresser in West London, I watch as the blonde pieces of what used to be part of me fall onto the floor. Shit....
In an age where the term “feminism” is not only plastered on the digital walls of social media, but also on the literal walls of buildings in terms of street art, the women of today are, (and...
On the 7th September 2018, Mac Miller (real name Malcolm James McCormick) was found dead of a suspected drug overdose in his LA apartment at the tender age of 26. A respected and talented rapper,...
In the last few years, there’s been a slow, yet strong and steady positive shift in how the topic of mental health is approached. People no longer feel the need to hide their experiences about...
“Let me guess – you’re Spanish right? Or Greek? You’ve got that kind of Mediterranean look about you.” That’s pretty much the most common guess when people ask me where I’m from, and...
