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Articles by Alia Romagnoli
“There’s a very short step between suffragette organising and fascism.”
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?
Queer joy and Punjabi diasporic cooking: in conversation with Gurdeep Loyal
“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.
Finding music in liminality
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.
“Through Me, These Queer Ancestors are Visual”
Vincent Martell is a Chicago-born filmmaker and the Founder/CEO of VAM STUDIO, an award-winning production company with a diverse team of queer people of colour filmmakers in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. After watching one of VAM’s latest productions, Finesse, I was eager to speak to the mind behind it.
Activist Ayisha Siddiqa: “I’m not in the business of selling the future”
Ayisha Siddiqa – organiser, speaker and poet – was at the heart of mobilising the 2019 climate strikes in New York. You might remember the photos: over 350,000 people went on strike across the US, setting records for the largest protests since the anti-Vietnam demonstrations decades before. Ayisha, fresh from student protests on a smaller scale, was thrown into collaboratively organising this mass demonstration in the lead up to the 2019 UN New York Climate Summit.
ReDress the Future: on sustainable solutions and holding the fashion industry to account
WaterBear, a free streaming platform dedicated to the future of our planet, has launched its newest original content series, ReDress the Future, to explore some of the fashion industry’s most damaging factors and tangible solutions ahead of the infamous ‘month of fashion’.
“Being a bimbo doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a dumbass”: reclaiming Bimboism with Chrissy Chlapecka
I’ve recently been thinking about the ‘discourse’ that inevitably surfaces when a TikTok trend goes viral. It’s a blessing and a curse which has come to be synonymous with the territory, yet it’s definitely something that Vine, despite being the de facto blueprint of the social media channel, didn’t have to put up with.
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