I love her. The Mercy Step was one of my favourite reads of last year, and I was privileged enough to chair a panel with Marcia at the Black British Book Festival. She's just brilliant.
Marcia Hutchinson's novel was rejected 54 times before a small Black-owned publisher said yes.
Now The Mercy Step has been shortlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction.
Hutchinson says race may have been a factor in her book getting rejected so many times.
TL is full of stories where white ppl have attacked & in some cases killed poc to demonstrate the actual two tier society we have lived in for decades. Fatoumata Hydara & her babies were burned to death. Their killer Jamie Barrow's sentence was reduced
https://t.co/OhTNQk07SW
I don't fucking care how underprivileged you are, how poor you are, how the system fucked you over, it will never excuse joining an army that kills us, ruins our countries and takes away our children, the audacity to say this is a privileged take is frankly shocking to me.
It is with immeasurable sorrow that the MOBO Organisation announces the passing of its Founder and CEO, Kanya King CBE.
Kanya passed away peacefully on 3 June 2026 after a courageous and characteristically determined battle with colon cancer. She was surrounded by her family, close friends and love.
Thirty years ago, Kanya King remortgaged her home, alone, without institutional backing or industry support, to build a stage that would transform British music forever.
She was a single mother from a Kilburn council estate who was told that Black music was too niche, that there was no market and that the industry was not interested. Instead of arguing, she built. Six weeks later, the first MOBO Awards was broadcast to the nation, and nothing was ever the same again.
What Kanya created was never simply an awards ceremony. It was an act of cultural justice. MOBO did not just celebrate Black music; it legitimised it, amplified it and transformed the cultural landscape of the UK.
From Stormzy, Little Simz and RAYE to Craig David, Ms. Dynamite, Amy Winehouse, Central Cee and countless others, generations of artists have benefited from Kanya King's vision.
She built a platform that reached hundreds of millions of people around the world. She was awarded a CBE and received an Ivors Academy Honour in 2025. She never stopped. She never asked for permission. She never accepted that the word “no” was final.
When she stood on the MOBO stage in Newcastle in February 2025, just months after her diagnosis, she told the audience: “I never allowed someone to define my limits. Not in life. Not in business. And I’m certainly not going to have that happen now.”
That was Kanya King. Right to the very end.
The 2026 MOBO Awards, held during the Organisation’s landmark 30th anniversary year, will be dedicated entirely to her memory.
The world was a profoundly better place with Kanya King in it. The MOBO family is heartbroken, but endlessly grateful, proud and inspired by everything she gave to music, culture and future generations.
Rest in power, Kanya.
You built this.
All of it.
@Theozilla01@KingCocoaButter I feel like it's setting up the show to be something it isn't. Tbh I've been confused by the discourse from anime onlies. Don't wanna sound like a "I was here first" hipster but from Agott to weird jokes about Qifrey to calling WHA an industry plant I need them to chill a bit.
Jimmy - you should research the plethora of cases that precede Henry's. Tracie Cooper 2020, police thought she was faking what turned out to be a brain bleed. She died. Kevin Clarke 2018 told Lewisham police he couldn't breath and was going to die. He did.
The Henry Nowak thing. If you watch the video, before Nowak complains of being unable to breathe and having been stabbed, the one police officer notes that "he has a mouthful of blood". Now when a person with a mouthful of blood starts complaining that they can't breathe and that they have been stabbed, alarm bells should be starting to go off. Then, a few moments later a policewoman requests an ambulance saying "His pupils aren't even reacting". By that point anyone with any bit of sense would surely have realised that there was a very serious problem. Now these same officers, apparently having been bereft of anything approaching basic common sense, are blaming their DEI training.
@Istan125 It's so weird bc apart from "magic" I really don't see the correlation! The only one that made sense in recent years was the dark trio, and that's probably because ppl weren't trying to force it as the "next big thing".
@Theozilla01 I totally hear you! But I can still see why people will interpret it that way, just based on an autonomy perspective. It doesn't hold up under all counts of scrutiny but there's weight to it. The sensitive subject matter required a deeper analysis from OP than one throwaway line.
I think people are focusing so much on "cocsa" that they're missing "allegory", which is important here. OP isn't saying Tartah is a full on abuser, but he still put Coco in a compromising situation, coerced her, and took away her autonomy. It's obviously uncomfortable.
and so, when coco goes against him, he responds the way other witch men responded to similar defiance from women: using power. he doesn't understand why coco is upset bc, to him, this is j how female/male relationships work. and i think it's absolutely an allegory for cocsa+
I never seen manga fans more insecure about their genre than shonen fans every time a new manga comes out they be like "this manga deconstructs shonen" "this story is actually soft seinen" "how this manga changed shonen" y'all treat the word shonen like a slur lol
“Officer, I’ve been stabbed”
“No you haven’t, due to mandatory woke lessons I was given by the left”
Is this the version of events we are all being forced to pretend has happened?
Nowhere in the source post is ‘DEI’ mentioned, because DEI is specifically American terminology - it’s now been weaponised by the US far right and it’s being pushed on the UK by US far right actors. This account is either acting in bad faith or isn’t British.