The British carceral state’s rotten food system and what needs to be done to change it
Tommy H & Image: Javie Huxley
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Javie Huxley is a British-Chilean illustrator based in London, and the co-chair for the Save Latin Village campaign. Following Javie's MA in Children's Literature & Illustration, her main focus has been on socially engaged editorial illustration for magazines such as Shado and gal-dem. Javie strongly believes in the importance of art as advocacy, her work focuses on themes such as identity and current social issues. Javie also uses her art to celebrate and platform Latinx voices in the UK. See her instagram for more work or get in touch via javierahuxley@gmail.com
shado sits down with Alina la Histérica to find out more about how she is making Mariachi a feminist issue and reclaiming public space.
Erin Cobby & Image: Javie Huxley
When I first entered filmmaking some 25 years ago there were almost no Iñupiaq or other First Nations filmmakers in Alaska and less Iñupiaq content on our screen. The only on-screen representation we saw of Iñupiaq people was through the biased, racist, western gaze of those filmmakers and media makers...
Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson & Image: Javie Huxley
Last month, over 500 Argentinians participated in a public protest against the development of a brand new offshore oil exploration project. The project, developed in collaboration with Norwegian company Equinor, would be the first offshore exploration in Argentina. Environmentalists, alongside local fishermen and those in the tourism industry have come...
Maria Azul Schvartzman & Image: Javie Huxley
The cottage-core crime which fights land injustice, inequality, nature deprivation, environmental degradation and the mental health crisis: guerrilla gardening. I spoke with Ellen Miles AKA Octavia Chill, a TikTok sensation and founder of the Dream Green platform, bringing guerrilla gardening back in a big way. I first stumbled across “Octavia...
Zoe Rasbash & Image: Javie Huxley
The international community seems to suffer from short-term memory loss. Few seem to remember that during the 70s and 80s, the United States put into motion a plan to politically control what they always considered their ‘backyard’: Latin America. A plan which involved multiple political coups, violence and the establishment...
Maria Azul Schvartzman & Image: Javie Huxley
Samara Almonte explains why she no longer dreams of the apocalypse and instead why her focus is on dreaming about our liberation.
Samara Almonte & Image: Javie Huxley
This seemingly innocuous message from a friend in early June opened our eyes and inboxes to the treasure trove that is the Vittles newsletter. This WhatsApp exchange is indicative of the organic success of the food writing platform – friends telling friends about a new form of distraction during lockdown...
Hannah Robathan, Isabella Pearce, Jonathan Nunn & Image: Javie Huxley
With a lot of media attention focused on hospitals and the amazing work that doctors and nurses are doing within them, shado sat down with a London GP to discuss how his practice has been dealing with COVID-19 and the potential positive effect that this pandemic might have on NHS...
Erin Cobby & Image: Javie Huxley
With the UK’s death toll rapidly rising and NHS healthcare workers speaking out against working conditions and the lack of PPE in hospitals over the UK, it is more important than ever to hear from those putting their lives on the line within the structure of a massively overstretched and...
Isabella Pearce, Hannah Robathan & Image: Javie Huxley
With the UK’s death toll rapidly increasing and NHS healthcare workers speaking out against working conditions and the lack of PPE in hospitals over the UK, it is more important than ever to hear from those putting their lives on the line within the structure of a massively overstretched and...
Isabella Pearce, Javie Huxley & Image: Hannah Robathan
With the UK’s death toll rapidly increasing and NHS healthcare workers speaking out against working conditions and the lack of PPE in hospitals over the UK, it is more important than ever to hear from those putting their lives on the line within the structure of a massively overstretched and...
Isabella Pearce, Hannah Robathan & Image: Javie Huxley