Cheryll is a London based artist with a passion for making honest and feel good music. Her love for music has driven her to hone in on her craft and continue to embrace her alternative style of music. Her sound is very sensory and intimate, and yet she still manages...
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Erin Cobby is the Senior Editor at shado magazine. She has been working as a journalist and editor for over four years and specialises on the intersection of politics and culture, especially when it comes to music.
Her work has been featured in numerous publications including Boiler Room, Wonderland, Port, Reuters and Rollacoaster.
https://www.erincobby.com/
Bridget is a south London jazz and soul singer. She writes and performs her own music and does covers; at our launch event of Issue 02 we were lucky enough to hear her version of Sasha Keable’s Treat Me Like I’m All Yours. Bridget also performs as part of the...
Megan Beech is a performance poet and activist. She was the winner of the Poetry Society’s SLAMbassadors national youth slam in 2011. She has performed at venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Parliament, the Southbank Centre, Glastonbury Festival and Cheltenham Literature Festival. Her debut collection ‘When I Grow Up I...
It was a momentous day to be entering The Houses of Parliament. That afternoon 10,000 people would amass in the streets protesting Britain’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson, exercising their right to freedom of speech by showing their anger against a government they felt was non-representative. In stark contrast, on...
Networks were being cultivated everywhere. In all corners of the Hoxton Hotel on Wednesday evening inspiring and aspiring young creatives were meeting with wonderful results. Unlike other panel discussions I’ve attended, which turn stale due to formulaic organisation, this event seemed to grow organically, keeping the idea of equal conversational...
Slow Tongue is a powerful collection, using language and design in an innovative way to create a new space for emerging voices. The title evokes the image of languid sexuality, a theme which pervades the collection, described by ripe fruit, “licking”, “sucking” and breathing heat. Douglass uses abstract imagery coupled...
Erin Cobby & Illustration: Rosa O Mara
“I was born a woman, but I never lived as a woman.” These are the words of Kim Bok-Dong, who prior to her death in January 2019, was one of the last surviving Korean ‘comfort women’ still waiting for an adequate apology from the Japanese government. Her funeral was a...
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