Haaniyah Awale Angus is an essayist, culture journalist, and screenwriter based in North London. She specialises in writing about film, internet culture, body image, mental health, and hot takes that plague her mind.
She holds a BA (Hons) in Communications, Media and Culture with Film Studies from Oxford Brookes University.
Angus' work has appeared in various online publications such as Gal-Dem, Metro, DAZED, Refinery29, VICE, and PAPERMAG. In 2021, her essay, "Keys to the Kingdom", was published by Penguin Random House in the anthology book Black Joy. In the essay, she examines racism in British cinema and deconstructs the concept of representation.
In addition, Angus publishes personal essays on her Substack called in a panoramic & pens a monthly film column for London-based film magazine A Rabbit’s Foot.
recent work
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for women who talk too much
musings on being annoying, anxiety and adulthood
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Notes from a weekend of Horror
A Rabbit’s Foot columnist, Haaniyah Awale Angus, beats a months-long cinema slump by taking to the movies for back-to-back screenings of the Summer’s most talked-about horror films
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How Queen Latifah helped me fall in love with fashion—and myself
In her latest column for A Rabbit’s Foot, Haaniyah Awale Angus describes how finding a pirated DVD of Beauty Shop (2005) starring Queen Latifah provided her with the role model in style and beauty that had long eluded her.