Kenya Hunt, Fashion director at Grazia and author of new book, GIRL.
Kenya Hunt is an American editor and writer based in London. She is currently the Fashion Director at Grazia UK and previous positions include Deputy Editor at ELLE. Kenya also founded R.O.O.M. Mentoring, which provides support for those trying to get into the fashion industry and works to help the sector become more diverse. Kenya’s book GIRL: Essays on Black Womanhood is a collection of essays about what it means to be a black woman in our time, told through her own story and experiences and those of some of her peers. It was published in November 2020. In this episode, we talk about: Who Kenya had in mind when writing the book and the mantra ‘For us, by us’ she kept returning to Social media and hashtag culture, and the role of women in social movements and the recent US election (2:51) How Kenya thinks about the experience of being a black woman today, and her hopes for how she would like this to evolve (12:15) The influence of Kenya’s parents, and how they continue to impact her own approach to parenting (16:04) How Kenya finds joy spending time with family and writing (18:23)