Alia Romagnoli

We all know that the story we are popularly told about the linear waves of feminism is reductionist, often depicting the struggles of Black women and women of colour, queer women and disabled women at the margins – if at all. But how often do we consider that it is also obscuring the unsavoury underbelly of the feminist movement itself? With its revelatory history lesson about feminism, Leah Cowan’s latest book Why would feminists trust the police?

“There is, absolutely, a queer sentimentality to my cooking… There is no binary of yes and no, this is allowed, this is not… I’m celebrating the inbetween-ness.” Gurdeep Loyal, winner of the Jane Grigson Trust award, chef, food writer, musician, and like me a queer British Punjabi Sikh, speaks with the most extraordinary fluid joy about the way he cooks.

Before she could even walk, Maïa Barouh found herself in the groove. Going along to shows with her parents as a one year old trying to stand up and dance to music was just the beginning of what would become her life-long experimentation with rhythms, melodies and harmonies from around the world.