Supercurriculars

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Shelter short film

The Shelter short film/advertisement I watched was about how the place we grow up in makes us who we are, and particularly how living in social housing impacts you and gives you a sense of home and community. The advert is very inclusive and shows people from many different ethnic backgrounds and genders, showing how Shelter advocates for everyone, and that everybody struggles at times. The people in the advert describe their social housing as 'my stage', 'my soul', 'my home', which shows their connection to it, and how important it is that nore social housing is bult across the country. The advert reflects alturism and pro-social behaviours, since it encourages others to get involved in the canpaign through the hashtag #madeinsocialhousing, which allows people to spread the word via the internet and increase donations.

Afrofuturism Article - Big Issue

23 Nov 2025

The article I read spoke about the effects of colonialism, and how it still affects African countries today. It also covered the modern movement of Afrofuturism and how it is presented in modern black media. The article used the 2018 blockbuster movie, Black Panther as an example of how afrofuturism as a cultural aesthetic has started to infiltrate mainstream media. The fictional African country of Wakanda in which the film is set was never colonised, and as a result, became the most technologically advanced country on the planet. The film had a post-colonial aim to represent black characters and stories in a more positive light, empowering black audiences, particularly older ones who were used to seeing the negative representations of black people in older colonial media.