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Brexit unpacked: your bullshit-free guide to the current mess
What is happening? — While it’s easy to switch off, Brexit will shape British politics, and our lives, for a generation – so we owe it to ourselves not to clock out. Writer Ben Smoke talks us through the mess.
Written by: Ben Smoke
Surreal snapshots of everyday Los Angeles
Plastic fantastic — Street photographer Isaac Diggs captures a city at odds with itself, using a wide array of formats to explore the complex and layered nuances of LA life.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Meet the women of the incel movement
The truth about femcels — The ‘involuntarily celibate’ community is typically seen as being male-dominated, with female members – otherwise known as ‘femcels’ – often being overlooked. Writer Nick Chester meets the women who are being left behind.
Written by: Nick Chester
Inside the UK’s most radical indie publishers
Part Eight: Silver Press — From Audre Lorde to Leonora Carrington, Silver Press is the London publishing house uncovering forgotten feminist gems: ‘We’re working on bringing back into print strange women writers who we feel offer some reflection or guidance for the present – we think of them a little as mothers of the press.’
Written by: Kit Caless
The story of Noirwave, Africa’s pioneering punk movement
The black house — What began as an artistic practice by musician Petite Noir has quickly morphed into a state of mind; a way of expressing the powerful but fragmented identity of today’s African diaspora.
Written by: Alexandra Genova
Back in the day: photos of Liverpool in the 1980s
Street style — Photographer Rob Bremner captures a city brimming with character and style; filled with people living defiantly in the face of difficulty.
Written by: Jonathan Turton
The everyday beauty of Manila, like you've never seen it before
Invisible Cities — Against the backdrop of a drug war, where fear and violence have become normalised, photographer Hannah Reyes Morales has been seeking out moments of tenderness amid the adversity... while learning to understand the place that’s shaped her.
Written by: Hannah Reyes Morales
What Netflix did next: cam girls & stolen identities
Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into the latest Netflix Original releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is even worth our time anymore. This week, it’s Cam: an uncanny (and actually good!) thriller about social media and sex work.
Written by: Megan Nolan
Genesis Owusu: ‘I see cultural appropriation every single day’
Straight outta Canberra — The heavily hyped Australian rapper talks bible verses, life as a hermit, and the toxic powers of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West: ‘I’m just waiting for someone I can school, I can educate. I’m ready.’
Written by: Biju Belinky
Face In The Crowd: vintage shots of British football fans
On the terrace — Historian Alan Dein has compiled a visual archive of old-school football crowds that harks back to a much simpler time: when the beautiful game was still about the fans.
Written by: Jacob Charles Wilson
