Episode 5: Beauty journalist, Brand consultant and former magazine editor Keysha Davis talks to us about community spirit and raising two boys during lockdown, why black hair matters and feeling starstruck by Janet Jackson and Tyler Perry.

Comms from the Shed: interviewing diverse voices on our present and the future.

Beauty journalist, Brand consultant and former magazine editor Keysha Davis talks to us about community spirit and raising two boys during lockdown, why black hair matters and feeling star-struck by Janet Jackson and Tyler Perry.

Show summary

1min – Lockdown living with two young sons at home, and what matters in life.

2mins30s – Unconventional career route: intern to entertainment at Pride, and Editor at BlackHair magazine.

7mins – switching from print to digital, with feet in both the analogue and digital worlds.

8mins30s – virtuous circle of experience: fashion, beauty and music.

9mins45s – interviewing Janet Jackson and Tyler Perry, my ‘pinch me moment’.

12mins08s – Black hair and hair discrimination: ‘it’s just hair, but it’s our hair.’ Brand responses.

16mins – Instagram and IG live: heroes, heroines, health and beauty.

19mins30s – “MsQuiche”.

20mins – Collective Covid grief and information overload.

23mins – Filtering social media and the ‘hive mind’.

26mins45s – Inspired by, and the importance of, the local community.

31mins30s – Spending quality time and rediscovering your life partner.

33mins – Comfort content, favourite new books and Judi Love’s date nights.

39mins30s – Hopes and aspirations for the future – imposter syndrome, and going out again.