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Funmi Lijadu

  • Writer, Copywriter, Graphic Designer, Freelance
Nigeria, United Kingdom
As seen in: MSN UK, Metro (UK), Cosmopolitan (UK), Cosmopolitan Japan, The Tab, The Skinny, Cosmopolitan India, The Republic (Nigeria), Fest, Skin Deep and
Covers:  Pop culture, News, Entertainment, Social justice
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I'm invested in society and the issues that lie under the surface of what is readily discussed. I love pop culture and finding answers to 'why?' questions when it comes to what people consume in terms of ideas and material things.

Funmi Lijadu’s Journalist Portfolio

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How the 'good girl complex' can make your relationships one-sided

How the 'good girl complex' can make your relationships one-sided

An honest description of my adult journey of unlearning the self-sacrificial aspects of being socialised as a…

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Lucie's Bullying Allegation Shows How 'Niceness' Silences Black Women - Meeting of Minds

Lucie's Bullying Allegation Shows How 'Niceness' Silences Black Women - Meeting of Minds

Amid the emergent chaos of white supremacist insurrections and tight-fisted school meal parcels, drama from L…

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Has COVID-19 killed the 'voluntourism' star?

Has COVID-19 killed the 'voluntourism' star?

Type in 'volunteer Africa' or 'gap year' into google. Chances are you'll see the same kind of image over and …

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Nigeria's Culture and Legal System Enables Gender-Based Violence and Female Subjugation

Nigeria's Culture and Legal System Enables Gender-Based Violence and Female Subjugation

Over the past few months, Nigeria has seen brutal and horrific instances of sexual violence. These events hav…

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Here's an accurate Black history of Edinburgh, from eugenics to reparations

Here's an accurate Black history of Edinburgh, from eugenics to reparations

Black students have attended the uni since the 1800s! Did you hear David Hume pretty much got cancelled? Edin…

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'It's like an invisible war': Black students on life at a majority-white uni

'It's like an invisible war': Black students on life at a majority-white uni

I was out shopping in my uni city of Edinburgh and heard someone behind me say 'sUcH loOveLy hAiR!' I turned …

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A Bitter Pill: On Pope.L's Hospital at South London Gallery

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By Funmi Lijadu
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A Bitter Pill William Pope.L’s exhibition Hospital is a collection of strange, disgusting fragments that produce an overarching sense of absurdity and flatness. Combining sculpture, film, drawings and installations, presented across both South London Gallery’s sites, this is the pioneering performance artist’s belated first institutional solo exhibition in London. But, in its one-note, bleak portrayal of blackness, it might have arrived too late. Pope.L: Hospital, South London Gallery, 2023.
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Funmi Lijadu - Bio Site

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By Funmi Lijadu
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Hi! I’m a creative professional interested in writing, public relations and art. Over the years I’ve worked with clients and platforms including Metro UK, Tinder, Tate, The Wellcome Collection, Art X Lagos, Cosmopolitan UK & more.
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褒めたりけなしたりを繰り返し…「有害な友情」が私に気づかせたこと

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By Funmi Lijadu, Tomoko Nourry
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Catherine Falls Commercial 褒めることと否定すること、両極端の二つを繰り返すことで相手を一方的に支配する「トラウマ・ボンディング」。 気づかぬうちに多くの時間とエネルギーを奪う精神的な虐待を経験した著者が、負のループから抜け出すまでの体験を＜コスモポリタン イギリス版＞に告白。あなたの人間関係を見直すための参考にしてみて。 ※この記事は、精神的な虐待にまつわる描写を含みます。心身への影響を懸念される方は閲覧にご注意ください。 【INDEX】 トラウマ・ボンディングとは？ トラウマ・ボンディングとは、「ポジティブな強い結びつきと、それを切り捨てるサイクルが繰り返されることを特徴とする、感情的な愛着」のこと。 人間関係のセラピストであるマリー・ローリー氏によれば、当人どうしの力関係が不均衡なことが原因となることが多く、恋愛関係だけでなく、プラトニックな関係、家族関係など、あらゆる種類の人間関係に見られるそう。...
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What does it mean to be a journalist?

Being a journalist means wanting to be aware of views different to yours, to be constantly asking questions, to be interested in humanity.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

I use search engines like Google, academic journals like JSTOR, public archives, statistic databases and much more.

Why did you become a journalist?

I've always had advocate-like energy, trying to identify and tackle societal issues in order to help solve them long-term

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IPSE Freelancer Award Finalist

2021 - Young Freelancer Award

IPSE is searching for the most talented self-employed people in the UK who are under 30 to enter our IPSE Young Freelancer Year Award. This award is about celebrating the achievements of people who have made the jump into freelancing at an early age and are already a success.

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