Paul Boakye
@paulboakye
Playwright and author exploring culture, memory and belonging. Making documentary and editorial films using AI-assisted production. Traveller. Occasional shower crooner.
Barely-there swimwear is the norm in Brazil, and body shaming worries don’t seem to bother anyone. They learn to accept their bodies from childhood. That ease in the sun comes with a cost: skin cancer is the most common cancer there, with non-melanoma cases making up ~30% and melanoma about 1%.
They lure you with free coffee at the Gilead stand during the International AIDS Conference in Rio, Brazil. Smart ploy.
Activists storm the stage during the opening ceremony of #AIDS2026, shouting, “When people with AIDS are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back,” along with other slogans aimed at pharmaceuticals, ICE, Trump, and genocidal murder in Gaza. It was as animated as things got.
LatinoLife UK lit up Walpole Park on Sunday 19th July. Music, movement, colour everywhere you looked. Loved it.
This is for the Paraguayan senator who racially abused Kylian Mbappe online. The Harry Kane moment made me laugh out loud. 🤣 #WorldCup
Prayers do come true. So glad to wake up to a 4–1 win for Belgium. I suppose the USA will now want to start a war with them or threaten tariffs over Belgium whooping the USA at football without cheating. #WorldCup2026 #Football #FIFA #Belgium #USA #InternationalFootball
The saxophonist was saxophoning at Mrs Lutchman's wedding in Crystal Palace Park last Sunday. 👏🏽
Lionel Messi is now the joint top FIFA World Cup goalscorer 🔝📊, but Kylian is coming up the rear. 😉
The banks of the River Thames at morning tide seen from Battersea Bridge.
Lost in the back streets of Rotterdam, Dijkzigt, trying to find my way back to the DoubleTree Hilton Rotterdam Centre at Leuvehaven, where my room has the best showerhead I’ve ever experienced anywhere in my years of travel. But is Dijkzigt to Leuvehaven always this quiet?
Call for Papers: Black Histories Dialogues Journal special issue on Historical Perspectives of Black/African Masculinities. Seeking cross-disciplinary work on culture, history, politics, diaspora, embodiment, memory, and more. Abstracts (max 250 words) due 30 June 2026. #MasculinityStudies
Missing HIV appointments happens. Getting back doesn’t have to be hard. THT Direct can help you take that first step back to a clinic. tht.org.uk/hiv/its-wort...
AI feels like the Trojan horse of the twenty-first century. Invited in by big tech, trusted, and normalised by the people. Only once it’s inside do we realise what it carries: systems that quietly replace us, restructure work, and leave millions unemployed, wondering where they now fit.
I love the iridescent #Hummingbird or the #DoctorBird as we used to call it when me was a boy.
Getting the right four seconds of a shot can be tricky. It’s usually the difference between something that holds together and something that doesn’t. #filmmaking #filmediting #storytelling #cinematography #postproduction #shortformvideo #filmsky
Submissions are open at Screen Door Press, edited by Crystal Wilkinson. Selected manuscripts receive a $5,000 advance and a book contract. Deadline: April 20. Submit here: screen-door-press.paperform.co #BlackWriters #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritersOpportunity
A private view at the 1957 Gallery on Thursday evening, where they turn basic painting techniques and rags stitched onto plastic bags and mats into money. They will be lucky if even one of these works of art sells at these prices, though they claim to clean up. Nice work if you can get it.
Do you know the only thing that hasn’t changed in 800 years? You’ll be surprised at the answer.
