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Slowing the great Russian war machine

How activists are organising inside and out of Putin’s Russia

Tommy Hodgson and Mary Tolstova

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Is Big Tech ruining our dating lives?

Slowing the great Russian war machine

How activists are organising inside and out of Putin’s Russia

Tommy Hodgson and Mary Tolstova

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What is health justice?

Emotional fluffers, sex parties and ethical porn

Indigenous communities in Mexico are confronting narcos and mining by building autonomy

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First session starting Tuesday! Session only tickets available. In the first session we will be exploring All About Love by bell hooks.

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Is Big Tech ruining our dating lives?

This week the girls are tackling ‘the apps’: are they making love and dating harder, or are they simply reflecting already broken society? How far can we blame big tech for the state of dating right now? And can we even be bothered to resist it?

Zoe and Larissa talk dating horror stories, politics of desirability and why straight mens dating profiles really are just for other men. Tune in for two 5’11 queens who cannot make up their mind on how we might change modern dating to be less BLEUGHJ…

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The floating prison and uncharted waters of UK offshore immigration detention

The Bibby Stockholm and Rwanda Plan are just the beginning. Activists, legal charities, and grassroots organisations expose how Offshore Detention policies are impacting migrants in the UK and what we can do to resist.

Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara and Natasha Phang Lee

Breaking the American Dream

Talking diasporic identity and the “New Americana” with Khashayar J. Khabushani

Maia Golzar Anderson and Christina Atik

Does radical vulnerability hinder us in the digital arena of love?

Finding love is a little more complicated than a simple formula (or algorithm)

Fope Ajanaku and Esther Lalanne

Protecting the right to asylum and the right to protest in the UK is part of the same fight

But this government doesn’t want us to know that

Tigs Louis-Puttick and Naomi Gennery

Artist Spotlight: Mohammed Z Rahman

Artist Spotlight: Rashod Taylor

Artist Spotlight

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Artist Spotlight: Charity Atukunda

Artist Spotlight

The frontline groups around the world working to defend their land, water and human rights in the face of increased oppression and violence.

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Palm oil is not sustainable: defending the rights of communities in Cameroon

In conversation with Emmanuel Elong on how agro-industrial plantations are affecting local communities’ life and reinforcing violent colonial domination

Eugenie Tailhandier and Sayeeda Bacchus

“We don’t have the luxury of failing”: what it takes to preserve Indigenous farming systems in North-East India

Amid state and national pressures to cultivate palm oil, farmers are finding novel ways to preserve local food sovereignty.

Sharlene Gandhi and Sayeeda Bacchus

Fighting for the forests in Eastern Congo

How Indigenous and local communities are struggling to protect their lands from extractivism and exploitation

Eugenie Tailhandier and Thumy Phan

Palm oil is not sustainable: defending the rights of communities in Cameroon

In conversation with Emmanuel Elong on how agro-industrial plantations are affecting local communities’ life and reinforcing violent colonial domination

Eugenie Tailhandier and Sayeeda Bacchus

Editors

Marina Tricks

Tommy Hodgson

Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara

Zoe Rasbash

Larissa Kennedy

Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi

Your guide to accessible breakdowns of social justice issues including introduction to resources, key leaders in the movements and ways you can get involved.

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What is health justice?

Everything you need to know about health justice, how our access to health has changed in recent years and what movements are working towards health justice and collective liberation

Healing Justice London and Fernanda Peralta

What is #StopRosebank?

Everything you need to know about the Stop Rosebank campaign, how climate litigation is being used to hold governments to account and ways to get involved

Jessica Kleczka and Sayeeda Bacchus

What is Waste Colonialism?

Everything you need to know about waste colonialism, how it evolved and the scale of the problem today, its links to overconsumption and capitalise and what can do done to resist it

Joycelyn Longdon and Walker Gawande

What is health justice?

Everything you need to know about health justice, how our access to health has changed in recent years and what movements are working towards health justice and collective liberation

Healing Justice London and Fernanda Peralta

Comfort Angels

Meet the team bringing inclusion and integration to refugees and people seeking asylum in Liverpool

WATCH Video

Editors' Picks

Venice Architecture Biennale: how radical can an architectural fair be?

What is the hostile environment?

The NHS as a site of structural violence

“Talking about the stars whilst standing in the mud”

The fight for reparations for women affected by forced sterilisations in Peru

Editors' Picks

The fight for reparations for women affected by forced sterilisations in Peru

“Talking about the stars whilst standing in the mud”

The NHS as a site of structural violence

What is the hostile environment?

Venice Architecture Biennale: how radical can an architectural fair be?

See

Arts as advocacy and all things visual

SEE

Arts as advocacy and all things visual

12 Weeks is not an Abortion Film

Anna Isabelle Matutina’s feature film debut encapsulates a richness of detail and emotion in realism, and is a poignant examination of women's rights in the Philippines.

Ning Chang

On documenting heritage

By revisiting the past, we pave the way for a proud and joyful future

Mai-Anh Vu Peterson and Natasha Phang Lee

If exclusion is retribution, abolition in education is freedom!

In conversation with Marcus Bernard about how abolishing exclusions is a necessary step for transforming our schools and society

Simmone Ahiaku and Marcie Mintrose

The news is a Khartoon

How Khalid Albaih navigates the role of art in political resistance in Sudan

Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi

Hear

Music for social change and all things audible

HEAR

Music for social change and all things audible

From Raves to Resistance: Amsterdam’s nightlife is moving beyond hedonism

How music collectives are rebuilding communities

Safiya Bashir and Natasha Phang Lee

“We just wanted to give ourselves a chance”: Berlin’s next-gen ravers talk partying and politics

The city’s complex relationship with its clubbers and why not everything has to be activism

Justin Kendall and Natasha Phang Lee

Anarchy in the capital

How music collectives in London are creating alternative mutual aid networks

Erin Cobby and Natasha Phang Lee

From gentrification to reclamation: revitalising club culture through Indigeneity and community

Lady Shaka on her quest to Re-Indigenise Club Culture

Vivek Ramachandran and Karla Lizethe Hunter

Act

Protests, movement-building and collective actions being taken on the ground

ACT

Protests, movement-building and collective actions being taken on the ground

Slowing the great Russian war machine

How activists are organising inside and out of Putin’s Russia

Tommy Hodgson and Mary Tolstova

The floating prison and uncharted waters of UK offshore immigration detention

Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara and Natasha Phang Lee

Protecting the right to asylum and the right to protest in the UK is part of the same fight

But this government doesn’t want us to know that

Tigs Louis-Puttick and Naomi Gennery

What we can learn from the Right to Remain Toolkit 10 years after its creation

How grassroots legal education is responding to the collapse of the legal aid sector and expanding Hostile Environment by building sustainable communities of knowledge and radical solidarity at the local level.

Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara and Heedayah Lockman

Inspirational individuals, organisations and ways we can all be activists

Inspirational individuals, organisations and ways we can all be activists

Breaking the American Dream

Talking diasporic identity and the “New Americana” with Khashayar J. Khabushani

Maia Golzar Anderson and Christina Atik

Small Worlds, big impact: Caleb Azumah Nelson’s latest triumph

Luke Crompton sits down with award-winning author Caleb Azumah Nelson – discussing his art, his inspiration, and how his second novel Small Worlds helped him hone his craft.

Luke Crompton and Karis Beaumont

Boys 2 Men: Preserving the essence of boyhood

Ben Hurst’s reflection on the adultifying of young boys and how traditional masculinity affects men’s wellbeing and sexual pleasure

Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi and Karis Beaumont

The NHS as a site of structural violence

Divided: In conversation with Annabel Sowemimo

Kavian Kulasabanathan and Sali Mudawi

Opinion

First-hand perspectives and op-eds

OPINION

First-hand perspectives and op-eds

Does radical vulnerability hinder us in the digital arena of love?

Finding love is a little more complicated than a simple formula (or algorithm)

Fope Ajanaku and Esther Lalanne

How new fictions are exploring Yellowfacing

Yellow peril, selling racial trauma and resisting the model minority myth in Yellowface and Bad Fruit

Ella King and Wei Wu

Abolition Feminism is the only solution for the criminalisation of gender-violence survivors

Leigh Goodmark explains why “imperfect” victims of gender violence are criminalised

Marcela Onyango and Tinuke Fagborun

“Queer liberation is the only sustainable solution”: A conversation with Ani Kayode Somtochukwu

The activist and debut author on the role of anger in the destruction of queerphobia in Nigeria

Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi and Marcie Mintrose

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In our latest piece shado editor @tomski.91 speaks

$In our latest piece shado editor @tomski.91 speaks to activists including @fem_antiwar_resistance and @loljanordic to find out how groups are organising inside and out of Putin’s Russia. “When FAR started, we were only thinking about street protests,” Lölja tells me. “Now, a year and a half later, we are a bigger movement, a network of working groups with very specific aims. Agitation is one, supporting refugees another, as are helping political prisoners and activists who need to self-exile because their lives are in danger. We advocate for those who can’t be as public as me and speak for themselves because they are in Russia.” 🎨 @daftpattern who says “The illustration shows a community of people who are against war. Some of them are not in Russia – they have a suitcase with their belongings and the freedom of speech to call the war a war. Others, reflected and refracted at the bottom of the water, are in Russia. Their country has unleashed a monstrous war, they are deprived of a voice and the ability to speak, but they can act. Therefore, the suitcase turns into a gasoline canister, and the letters into asterisks.”$