Cassandra Green

5 days ago | mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green

It was February 2024 in Saldanha Bay, Cape Town, when Joshlin Smith was seen for the last time. The six-year-old mysteriously disappeared from her hometown, sparking a highly publicised search for her. It would take over a year to see justice served. On Thursday, her mother, South African woman Racquel "Kelly" Smith, was found guilty of kidnapping and trafficking Joshlin, alongside accomplices, boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno van Rhyn.

3 weeks ago | mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green

We all know that feeling. When the moisture, pressure and heat build in the inner corner of your eye, you try to blink or look up to stop it from falling. We all cry at some point in our lives. Some of us cry at weddings. Others cry when they're tired, or stressed, or when a friend opens up about their heartbreak. It's a universal human experience, and yet, it can be so different from one person to the next.

1 month ago | mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green

I sat at a table in a brewery in Sydney on Saturday night when my phone went off with a Mamamia Instagram notification. There was a new post, telling me and my Millennial friends that Anthony Albanese had been elected Prime Minister. I watched on throughout the pub as phone notifications went off en masse. A very new-age way to hear an election get called. But it was also very apt, as this was an election unlike any other.

1 month ago | mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green

Michelle said she had been "living in fear for the past year". After being threatened so many times, she had no confidence that the police could help her. Michelle thought she'd be happy when she first married Torrens in 2022, but it didn't take long for him to turn. "I could see a change, and it would just flip. It would just change automatically, like I can never predict it when it was going to happen," she said. At Easter in 2024, the pair split when things began to get dangerous.

1 month ago | mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green

"Historically, the term Dandy was used to describe someone, often a man, who was extremely devoted to aesthetics and approached it as a lifestyle," author Monica L. Miller told The Met YouTube Channel. "It was imposed on black men in Europe during the 1700s as the Atlantic slave trade created a trend in fashionably dressed or 'dandified' servants. Free and enslaved black people came to understand the power of clothing and style and signalling hierarchies of race class and gender.