In conversation with filmmaker Saoud Khalaf about colonialism, diasporic identity and setting the story straight through film.
Hannah Robathan & Illustration: Naomi Gennery
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Maria Patsalos on the hostile environment, the UK's culture of disbelief and the power of football for people seeking asylum
Hannah Robathan & Illustration: Javie Huxley
Join shado, Helena Gualinga, Bernard Kato Ewekia, Jhannel Tomlinson and Sam Siva as we delve into the debt owed by the Global North to the Global South and how reparations are a crucial measure to end the legacies of colonialism and extraction which have caused the acceleration of the climate crisis.
Date and Time: Wednesday 2nd February, 6.30pm
Location: online webinar (streamed to shado's Facebook)
Tickets: Free
shado's editors speak to De Nichols about her new book 'Art of Protest', a beginner's guide to how art can create change.
Isabella Pearce & Illustration: Hannah Robathan
WaterBear, a free streaming platform dedicated to the future of our planet, has launched its newest original content series, ReDress the Future, to explore some of the fashion industry’s most damaging factors and tangible solutions ahead of the infamous ‘month of fashion’. Premiered on the platform on 10th September and...
Isabella Pearce, Alia Romagnoli & Illustration: Hannah Robathan
7th September, 6pm BST shado and GoClimate are collaborating again for an event on the importance of action around food and land in the climate justice movement. We’ll be discussing a range of topics with activists from the UK and the US, including how anti-racism and de-colonialism are implicit to...
She has the whole pool to herself. She has seen the others off: the rugby players in for their recovery swim, who splash around for twenty minutes and then retire to the sauna; the slow, steady pensioners who breaststroke endless laps. Beth counts them leaving, one by one, as she...
Isabella Pearce & Illustration: Hannah Robathan
shado speaks to Bimbo TikTok star Chrissy Chlapecka
Hannah Robathan & Illustration: Alia Romagnoli
While there is no shortage of politically-charged art, it’s rarer to come across an artist whose work is both a byproduct and manifestation of real-life social justice work. Suley Wellings-Longmore is one of those individuals; human rights lawyer by day, artist by night, he unites his passions with a drive...
Isabella Pearce & Illustration: Hannah Robathan
Young people have been dealt a terrible hand this past year. In what feels like a never-ending string of lockdowns and false promises stripping away social interactions and throwing futures into jeopardy, UK’s youth have been one of the groups who have been hit hardest by COVID-19. For 2020 and...
Isabella Pearce, Hannah Robathan & Illustration: Erin Cobby
Elia J. Ayoub on human rights violations, settler colonialism and what’s next
Hannah Robathan, Isabella Pearce & Illustration: Elia J. Ayoub
It’s difficult to add anything new to the excitable discourse around Caleb Azumah Nelson and his debut novel Open Water. The 27 year old writer and photographer has cut through the noise of first-time novelists with a beautiful meditation on Blackness, first love, masculinity, loss and growing up in London....
Isabella Pearce, Hannah Robathan & Illustration: Mariochukwu Washington-Ihieme