A week of the Kenyan president ordering the police to shoot protestors, learning private equity is taking over healthcare, and two Black men being terrorised by the state
A week of the Kenyan president ordering the police to shoot protestors, learning private equity is taking over healthcare, and two Black men being terrorised by the state
“We just wanted to give ourselves a chance”: Berlin’s next-gen ravers talk partying and politicsThe city’s complex relationship with its clubbers and why not everything has to be activismJustin Kendall & Image: Natasha Phang Lee
Anarchy in the capitalHow music collectives in London are creating alternative mutual aid networks Erin Cobby & Image: Natasha Phang Lee
From gentrification to reclamation: revitalising club culture through Indigeneity and communityLady Shaka on her quest to Re-Indigenise Club CultureVivek Ramachandran & Image: Karla Lizethe Hunter
Kalaf Epalanga believes that Whites Can Dance TooThe musician and author’s multifacedted exploration of immigration through Kuduro and Kizomba Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi & Image: Charity Atukunda
Finding music in liminalityMaïa Barouh on her new album AÏDA and what it means to be “between”Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara & Image: Alia Romagnoli
“You grow so much being around queer people”It Man frontman Finn O’Brien on being a trans man in musicRudy Harries & Image: Salam Zaied
What the music industry could learn from sex workers’ fight for decriminalisationIn the words of Laika, “We’re people, not just performers”Erin Cobby
Looking back to see ahead: “and no one can trick me with Honey Mouth again”Beautiful Nubia's use of music for storytelling, activism and recollecting cultural memory amidst Nigeria's 2023 electionsAdebayo Quadry-Adekanbi & Image: Tinuke Fagborun
Imagining a world beyond caste discrimination through desi-futuristic musicIn conversation with Kapil Seshasayee on caste discrimination, Indian nationalism and the power of music to disrupt mainstream narrativesAkshata Kapoor & Image: Joe Habben
Meet Knife Girl, the Finnish musician defying gender and genre boundariesOn how her new album celebrates being trans, young and understanding yourself in a crazy worldIsaac Muk & Image: Sali Mudawi
Climate-conscious clubbingCan party spaces become a bastion of the climate movement?Tommy H & Image: Boe
Inside Decolonise Fest where punx of colour are reclaiming their space on the punk stageHow a festival run by and for POC is boldly reaffirming the radical roots of the punk movementMarco Marcelline & Image: Hayfaa Chalabi