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Election 2024

How communities of colour fought back

Micha Frazer-Carroll examines the challenges that the UK’s minoritised communities have faced over the last five years, and reports on the ways that they have come together to organise, support and uplift one another.

Written by: Micha Frazer-Carroll

Election 2024

What it's really like to access gender affirming healthcare as a young trans woman

In explaining her often difficult, frustrating and long journey through the healthcare system, Johanna Kirkpatrick dispels many of the myths surrounding gender identity clinics.

Written by: Johanna Kirkpatrick

Election 2024

Inside life at the centre of the cost of living crisis

Jamie Ginns is the strategic lead at Greenwich Foodbank. Here he details the realities of day to day life at the bank and the stories of the many thousands they help every year.

Written by: Jamie Ginns

Election 2024

My life as an LGBTQ asylum seeker in the UK

Although the UK is more tolerant than the country they fled, the government's persecution of migrants and LGBTQ people, as well as the labyrinthine asylum system, continues to make torture survivor King feel unsafe.

Written by: King, a client at Freedom from Torture

Election 2024

Introducing Election 2024

Digital Editor Ben Smoke introduces Huck’s election coverage and lets you know what you can expect over the next five weeks.

Written by: Ben Smoke

Activism

Why have a quarter of The Great Escape’s line up pulled out?

At least 126 acts have withdrawn from the Brighton festival in protest at the inclusion of Barclays as a sponsor because of the bank's alleged links with atrocities in Gaza, Ben Smoke explains.

Written by: Ben Smoke

Culture

The Uncanny Valley: Huck’s April Newsletter

Emma Garland reflects on what we can learn from this years’ edition of Coachella festival – the canary in the coal mine of US pop culture.

Written by: Emma Garland

Culture

Inside the uplifting world of Death Cafes

Meet the young people finding life talking about death in cafes popping up across the world.

Written by: Anna Wolfe

Culture

Inside the wild world of online pig racing

The League of Pigs released its first video in 2020 and has since amassed almost 100,000 subscribers and millions of views, but the creator remains elusive.

Written by: Lucy Carter

Culture

Jack Rooke and Jon Pointing on Big Boys, masculinity and friendship

In the latest edition of our Hard Feelings column, the stars of Channel 4’s Big Boys discuss not judging books by their covers, powerful working class women and the dangers of Piña Coladas.

Written by: Robert Kazandjian

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