Kuba Shand-Baptiste

@kubared

Kuba Shand-Baptiste is the former deputy editor of The Independent’s Voices desk. As well as commissioning articles on news, politics, pop culture and social justice, she wrote a weekly opinion column

Long Reads

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWhat life is like after being deported from the UK

Editor’s letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteHow the government’s bid to protect itself roused the British public

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteMTV Cribs is back – but do we have the stomach for it anymore?

Editor’s letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWhy your views on the government are carrying so much more weight

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteGovernment not tackling racism – it uses MPs of colour to defy critics

Editor’s letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteHow we’re giving Black History Month the coverage it deserves

Editor’s letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteOn the Voices desk, the pandemic constantly made us re-evaluate

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteClose the pubs now, there are more important things to save

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteHow opinion journalism will continue to challenge the government

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWhy I’m leaning into my obsession with The Real Housewives

Editors' letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWhy slower news is so appealing in a post-coronavirus world

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteThe Million People March is a reminder of Carnival’s anti-racist roots

Editor’s letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteListen to students and teachers if you want to understand exams chaos

UK Politics

Dawn Butler interview: ‘the PM knows there’s institutional racism'

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteIs it fair to punish Kylie Jenner for her cameo in Cardi B's video?

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWe all love television repeats, so where are the black shows?

Features

Chinonye Chukwu: ‘Society doesn’t care about black women’s humanity’

Voices

Kuba Shand-Baptiste‘Cancel culture’ letter proves the privileged hate being challenged

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteStarmer’s dismissal of defunding the police has lost him black support

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteGen Z are coming for us millennials, and it stings bad

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteSay it with me: This is Britain, and it has a racism problem

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteBlackout Tuesday is over – now be prepared for the real hard work

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteBritain exported authority across the globe – we must answer for a lot

Editor’s letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWe are moving in the right direction over racism, but painfully slowly

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteThe Immigration Bill proves government is obsessed with border control

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteMichelle Obama is a reminder that we need to keep conversations going

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteYour excitement about Adele’s weight loss says more about you than her

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteI’ve had it with all these lockdown ads and their sentimental messages

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteYou clap for me now – but after coronavirus, it’ll be racism as usual

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteNo, Karen is not the equivalent of the N-word for white women

Editor’s letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteCoronavirus isn't the only thing worth having an opinion on right now

Editor’s letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteHow our Alien Nation series changes the narrative on UK immigration

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteInternational Women’s Day reduces feminism to brunches and slogans

Features

Masali Baduza: ‘I think of what my ancestors have been through’

Voices

Kuba Shand-Baptiste#BeKind – but don’t conflate criticism of Laurence Fox with bullying

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteFacial recognition doesn't work – you should worry about its use

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteThe latest deportations show there is no end to ‘hostile environment’

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteJoaquin Phoenix hit the nail on the head with his Baftas speech

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteJournalists like me have stopped going on TV to save our sanity

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteMeghan Markle doesn’t ‘owe’ her father a thing – despite what he says

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteI'd quit smoking too for extra days of holiday – or so I'd pretend

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteA reckoning over racism against black kids in UK schools is overdue

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWhere were the celebrity pledges when the climate crisis hit Malawi?

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteThe viral stars of Black Twitter are finally being recognised

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWhy are cyber hoaxes like the Momo challenge so popular?

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteAfter years of strict family gatherings, I’m doing Christmas my way

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteMale power and Harvey Weinstein’s reaction to his lost reputation

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteThe Tories have won – and this is what you really voted for

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWhy isn’t Grenfell an election issue? Because politicians don’t care

Editors' letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteHow journalism helps us make sense of tragedies like London Bridge

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteTory voters ‘don’t give a toss’ about the party’s lies

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteChildren who accuse their teachers of racism should never be ignored

Editors' letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteReading other opinions is a great way to make sense of politics

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteThis election could be won by the dangerous power of deepfakes

Reviews

Warrior Women is not a neat tale of triumph over evil

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteClimate is a class and race issue. XR needs to grasp this quickly

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteThe UK’s immigration system is ideologically broken

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteMen are 230 times more likely to be raped than wrongly called a rapist

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteGreta Thunberg’s passion is being exploited by childish adults

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteTheresa May proved how pointless the honours system really is

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteX Factor is dying, so why is it falling back on a discredited past?

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteCommercialisation is ruining Notting Hill Carnival

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteMen shouldn’t stay silent when it comes to sexual harassment

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteThe Home Office thinks it can solve knife crime with chicken

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteJohnson is whipping up white fear to enforce a racist policing agenda

Editors' letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWhy writing about the loss of icons like Toni Morrison is so difficult

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteToni Morrison's death is a blow in the fight against white supremacy

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWhy I'm taking accusations of plagiarism against Beyoncé seriously

Editors' letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWhy did it take Trump’s comments for the media to call out racism?

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWhy won’t the UK even talk about reparations for slavery?

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteSerena Williams’ honesty made me face my own prejudices

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWhy are black babies more likely to be stillborn? Institutional racism

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteFilming strippers without their consent is no heroic feminist act

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteOf course women outperform men when universities stop rigging exams

Editors' letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteHow we’ve kept momentum going in the fight for a Final Say on Brexit

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWill Zuckerberg blink in the battle of the internet deepfakes?

Editors' letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWhy going straight to the source matters when it comes to protests

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteSexual health clinics are dying on the austerity front line

Long Reads

Kuba Shand-BaptisteWhy the problem of afro alopecia needs research, not ridicule

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteLike Moby, did my older admirer also think we were dating?

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteThe rise of ‘survival sex’ is a crushing legacy of austerity

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteAlabama’s new abortion law will destroy countless women’s lives

Editors' letters

Kuba Shand-BaptisteHow opinion articles keep us abreast of the stories Brexit buries

Voices

Kuba Shand-BaptisteDanny Baker’s excuses don’t cut it – impact is inseparable from intent

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