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Madeleine Holden

Kaituhi Tūtahi | Contributing Writer

Madeleine Holden is a lawyer and writer currently based in London. You can follow her on twitter @moscaddie

Everything By: Madeleine Holden

Features27.11.13

All My Real Thugs Come Cry With Us: On Sad Rap and Trivialising Depression

Sad rap - samples of sobbing women and mournful anime themes paired up with crushing, mundane, paralytic sadness - sounds like it's not much fun. Except for when it is, and for when it saves you. Madeleine Holden on Little Pain, Yung Lean, and why we seem to demand stoic depressives 24/7.

By Madeleine Holden
Read Time: 21 mins
Features01.05.13

An Open Letter to Rakhi Kumar, Beyonce-Hater: Your Feminism Is Not My Feminism

Rakhi Kumar claimed her challenge to Michelle Obama to stop treating Beyonce as a role model 'flew in the face of popular culture'. Madeleine explains why it didn't, and why she's wrong.

By Madeleine Holden
Read Time: 24 mins
Features25.03.13

Eat It Up and Lay Wit It: Hip Hop, Cunnilingus and Morality in Entertainment

After turning a friend's offhand comment into a quest for the ultimate CD-R of rappers who go down, Madeleine Holden takes a long hard look at rap's sexual and social hang-ups (Spoiler: they're everyone's).

By Madeleine Holden
Read Time: 40 mins
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