Jamika Ajalon is an author and inter-disciplinary artist who works with different mediums independently, but also in multiple fusions- incorporating written and spoken text, sound/music, and visuals. Her poems, stories and essays have been published in various digital and hard copy publications internationally.
In the wake of season two of The White Lotus, a surge of interest in buying the “weird heads” featured in the show has found Semtex fuming over the collective inability to call the décor by its correct name—and how that inability is a microaggressive form of othering....
Semtex goes off on the concept of friendship and how it can often be more trouble than it’s worth, especially when it comes to maintaining a relationship with somebody you’ve known most of your life. And many decide to continue to put up with such a person's toxicity...
In her next piece for #itchysilk, Semtex goes in like the proverbial charging bull on Italian stereotypes. Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola is the catalyst for her ire. Through the lens of this children's book, Semtex highlights that, in many ways,...
Efadel wants to live to write, but she muses a lot. When she is not musing, she also wants to do many other things. She lives in Nigeria but wants to travel around the world, meet their people and observe their eyes, see their colours, enjoy their music, learn their...
Ebenezer Okike is a documentary photographer based in Lagos with a degree in Geology from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He has worked immensely in the South–South of Nigeria with a focus in documenting Education and Immigration in the Northern parts of Cross...