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Inside Kazakhstan’s secret drag scene

The gay club in Astana, Kazakhstan is unassuming, hidden behind a plain door in one of the city’s many Soviet-era housing blocks. Inside, it’s the centre of an entire community.

  • Culture
  • Isobel Knight

Hard Feelings: Larry June

The San Franscican rapper talks homelessness, hustling and healing in the latest edition of our column on fatherhood and masculinity.

  • Music
  • Robert Kazandjian

Bread binned: the true number of slices wasted

One of Britain’s best bakers explains why we need to rebuild our relationship with loaves.

  • Food
  • David Wright

What happens when you leave a crime gang

From gun fights in her flat to wrapping pebs and running county lines, Danielle Marin had seen it all, but she needed out. Here's how she did it.

  • Culture
  • Robin Eveleigh

Hard Feelings: Gabriel Krauze

In a new column about fatherhood and masculinity, we speak to the author about emotional availability, the immigrant experience and more.

  • Culture
  • Robert Kazandjian

What ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ have in common

Or; why the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

  • Film
  • Ben Smoke

The queer activists reclaiming Norse myth from the far-right

Make vikings gay again — At the Capitol riots, one figure stood out from the crowd: the QAnon Shaman, covered in tattoos of Norse symbols. White supremacy and Norse myth have long been interconnected – but a community of LGBTQ+ activists and allies are fighting to save this noble tradition from hate.

  • Activism
  • Poppy Koronka

The Facebook group where it‘s always 2009

#TBT — While the rest of the world entered the uncertainty of 2021, in recent months, hundreds of thousands of Facebook users have signed up to groups that offer an escape from our current times.

  • Reportage
  • Andrew Lloyd

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