Shado Magazine

Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara and Alia Romagnoli

Finding music in liminality

Maïa Barouh on her new album AÏDA and what it means to be “between”

A week of Democrats raising the debt ceiling at the expense of people and planet, protests in Germany to free an anti-fascist, and the rollback of trans healthcare in Florida

What is the hostile environment?

Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara and Alia Romagnoli

Finding music in liminality

Maïa Barouh on her new album AÏDA and what it means to be “between”

A week of Democrats raising the debt ceiling at the expense of people and planet, protests in Germany to free an anti-fascist, and the rollback of trans healthcare in Florida

What is the hostile environment?

The Border Industry: how companies are profiting from human rights abuse

What’s our endgame? Exploring The Racial Code

Ning Chang and Charity Atukunda

Changing the culture of kill in “Chain-Gang All-Stars”

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on incarceration, abolition and dystopia in his “bruising” debut novel

Zoe Rasbash

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

Questions on whether an elite exhibition is the right space to build a decolonised and decarbonised world

Rudy Harries and Salam Zaied

“You grow so much being around queer people”

It Man frontman Finn O’Brien on being a trans man in music

Leah Cowan and Heedayah Lockman

What is the hostile environment?

Everything you need to know about the hostile environment, why it was created and who it serves, how it upholds a system of racial capitalism and what we can do to resist it.

Artist Spotlight: Sophie Phillips

Artist Spotlight: Dawit Adnew

Artist Spotlight

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Artist Spotlight: Charlene Komuntale

Artist Spotlight

Isabella Pearce

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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Eugenie Tailhandier and Sayeeda Bacchus

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

Sharlene Gandhi 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.

Eugenie Tailhandier and Thumy Phan

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 Sayeeda Bacchus

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

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Editors

Larissa Kennedy

Tommy Hodgson

Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi

O’Niel Leadon

Joey Ayoub

Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara

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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Leah Cowan and Heedayah Lockman

What is the hostile environment?

Everything you need to know about the hostile environment, why it was created and who it serves, how it upholds a system of racial capitalism and what we can do to resist it.

Elias Jahshan and Hayfaa Chalabi

What is Pinkwashing?

Everything you need to know about pinkwashing, how it evolved and why it is being used as a tool by Israel as well as resources to find out more

Ellen Miles and Tinuke Fagborun

What is Guerrilla Gardening?

Everything you need to know about guerrilla gardening, how and why it emerged and ways you can get involved

Leah Cowan and Heedayah Lockman

What is the hostile environment?

Everything you need to know about the hostile environment, why it was created and who it serves, how it upholds a system of racial capitalism and what we can do to resist it.

Comfort Angels

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

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Editors' Picks

10 tips for refugees whose asylum statuses have not been determined

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

From refugee to undocumented worker in London’s gig economy

Flipping the table: The role of food in resisting the right

How the Korean film ‘Broker’ makes room for the reality of black market baby adoptions, family-making and intergenerational justice

Editors' Picks

How the Korean film ‘Broker’ makes room for the reality of black market baby adoptions, family-making and intergenerational justice

Flipping the table: The role of food in resisting the right

From refugee to undocumented worker in London’s gig economy

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

10 tips for refugees whose asylum statuses have not been determined

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Arts as advocacy and all things visual

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Arts as advocacy and all things visual

Zoe Rasbash

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

Questions on whether an elite exhibition is the right space to build a decolonised and decarbonised world

Tommy Hodgson

From Kyiv, with comics

Zhenya Oliinyk on illustrating life in wartime Ukraine

Mai-Anh Peterson

From refugee to undocumented worker in London’s gig economy

How the new film Matar starts a conversation we should all be having.

Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara and Wei Wu

How the Korean film ‘Broker’ makes room for the reality of black market baby adoptions, family-making and intergenerational justice

In conversation with the cofounders of ESEA cinema advocacy group MilkTea on the transformative nuance of Broker and the radical potential of community film screenings.

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Music for social change and all things audible

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Music for social change and all things audible

Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara and Alia Romagnoli