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In the summer of 2018, I was piecing myself back together after a serious mental health crisis, and looking for healthy ways to communicate my vulnerability to those around me. Hak Baker’s debut Misfits EP was a huge part of that healing process.

Fifty years after women helped shape punk’s music, art and identity, their legacy is being celebrated with a new London exhibition and a one-night-only performance bringing musicians from across generations together. The centrepiece is Up Yours! God Save the Queens, a free exhibition at the Museum of Youth Culture running from 22 October to 22 November.

Back in the early 1960s, Stephen DiRado remembers sitting in the backseat of the family Volkswagen Beetle, his mother at the wheel, wholly undeterred by a chaotic storm of thunder and hail pummelling the streets of Worcester, Massachusetts, Just as they came to the summit of Belmont Hill, a bolt of lightning hit the car. ​“We all screamed, but nothing happened,” DiRado says. ​“Then I saw another lightning bolt hit Bell Pond.

On ​‘Never Leave Me’, the latest single from Cristale’s upcoming debut mixtape Clear Intentions, the rapper leaves some of her usual swagger behind.

Growing up in North Philadelphia, Dr. Deborah Willis spent countless hours in her mother’s beauty shop, perusing the luminous colour photographs that filled the glossy pages of Ebony, Jet, Look, and Life magazines – the last of which employed Gordon Parks as the first and only Black staff photographer for more than two decades.

At the age of 13, Nick Danziger arrived in Paris with neither plane ticket nor passport, embarking upon the first of many adventures to come. The London-born, Monaco and Switzerland-raised photographer was by nature and nurture a citizen of the world. His father was a New Yorker, son of a farmer in turn of the century Brooklyn, with Danzinger evoking scenes from a bygone world while speaking with a mid-Atlantic accent. ​“I didn’t feel particularly British.

This column first featured in Club Huck’s culture newsletter. Sign up for free here to make sure it lands in your inbox every month. 2026 was the year of slop. March 2026 saw the term ​“AI Slop” spike to its highest ever ranking in Google search results, an indicator that it’s a topic everyone has an opinion on.

In 1964, Jean-Pierre Laffont was in New York, trying pull together work as a photographer. He had moved to the USA from France that year with very little money to his name, and while he had a visa, he didn’t have a green card and the credentials to fully work as a photojournalist. But on arrival he found a city that towed the line between beauty and being on the brink. It was a situation that felt ripe for documentation.

After realising he would never inherit the family farm, Melonie Bennett​’s father struck out on his own, purchasing a 130-acre dairy farm in Gotham, Maine, for himself, wife, and three children. Bennett, the oldest, was only seven years old at the time, and remembers ​“the pressure my parents were under – the financial strain, the exhaustion, and the sheer amount of work that comes with running a 100-head dairy farm.

Once one of northern England’s brightest jewels, present day Blackpool is a city lined with chipped paint, neon-clad bars and the cheapest burger in the UK. The seaside town has been battered by years of neglect, but aside from its famous illuminations, there is a rich lineage of music and culture just below the eyeline. It’s perhaps most evident in the Blackpool Opera House – a music hall that has gone through three iterations on the same site since originally opening in 1889.