Isabella Pearce, Author at Shado Magazine

ReDress the Future: on sustainable solutions and holding the fashion industry to account

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 & Image: Hannah Robathan

Holding Her Breath: Family secrets, loss and coming of age

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 & Image: Hannah Robathan

B[L]ackground: an exploration of existence and non-existence

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 & Image: Hannah Robathan

Support for Medical Aid for Palestinians: DJ Livestream

Join RepresentAsian and shado for a live DJ stream raising money for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Register for tickets HERE About this event RepresentAsian (@RepresentAsian_podcast) and shado (@shado.mag) are very excited to present a live DJ stream raising money for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Join us on Thursday 8th July...

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shado x Instagram present: a pride prom – bringing LGBTQI+ youth the party they’ve been denied

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 & Image: Erin Cobby

An introduction to abolition in the UK

9th June, 6pm BST In this event, we will offer an introduction to abolition and seek to answer the question of what an abolitionist approach looks like and how it can be achieved. While organisers have been calling for abolition for years, 2020-2021 in particular has woken the rest of...

Isabella Pearce

There is nothing complicated about the situation in Palestine

Elia J. Ayoub on human rights violations, settler colonialism and what’s next

Hannah Robathan, Isabella Pearce & Image: Elia J. Ayoub

Caleb Azumah Nelson on Open Water

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 & Image: Mariochukwu Washington-Ihieme

Imagining a Black Future: Youth voices on anti-racism

Imagining a Black Future: Youth voices on anti-racism Sign up for free tickets HERE Youth are being heard like never before, as we enter into this unknown transitional period it is their voices we must centre when discussing how to create an anti-racist future. This event will platform the voices...

Isabella Pearce

Rewriting histories with Dawnie Walton and K Bailey Obazee

shado presents: Rewriting histories with Dawnie Walton and K Bailey Obazee The revival of Black narratives and music in a whitewashed history This month, shado will be hosting a conversation between K Bailey Obazee, founder of PRIM.BLACK and queer Black book club OKHA, and Dawnie Walton, author of newly released...

Isabella Pearce

In My Blood It Runs: a fight for the revitalisation of First Nation culture and histories

In My Blood it Runs is a coming of age documentary which follows the story of Dujuan and his family as they navigate the systemic racism which seeps into every area of their lives. With a focus on self-narration and collaboration with Indigenous communities in the Northern Territories, the film...

Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson, Hannah Robathan, Isabella Pearce & Image: Erin Cobby

Generation Change: the role of young people in the fight for climate justice

Generation Change: the role of young people in the fight for climate justice Date: March 4th 6pm GMT Register for tickets HERE Young people are on the frontline, witnessing and fighting the impacts of the crisis which they did not contribute to but are forced to experience in real time....

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