03/12/2025

My thinking around ‘re-remember’ has developed slightly over the last few days. I was at first considering different pop-culture references from my childhood and adolescence, that have been censored or perhaps should have been but weren’t. Programs such as Little Britain which featured the two writer-comedians who created the series regularly donning ‘fat-suits’, or make up to appear as a different race. I then considered films I was exposed to such as Team America, which features racist and ableist language – which about all I remember of the film. I even delved into thinking about companies and brands that were subjected to censorship of some form – considering the supermarket ‘Iceland’ and it’s long-standing original slogan – “That’s why mum’s go to Iceland”, before it was changed in 2024 to “That’s why we go to Iceland”, to be more inclusive of the company’s diverse range of customers.

As I have developed more thought over the last two days, I am thinking about global news stories that I, mostly, missed live information on as the events unfolded, due to my age. I am considering presenting information I missed, alongside pop-culture references I did see at the time.

I have been researching significant events from the early 2000s as this felt like an era in which I was mostly unaware of news; although there are moments I do recall – such as part of some reports, and newspaper front pages following 9/11. Yet, even on that horrific occasion, I was only seven years old, and my own, personal, concern that evening at home was that I would be unable to watch The Flintstones if the news of devastation in America didn’t stop updating.