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06/08/2024

Last few tickets available to our upcoming book club featuring these three brilliant core texts, Assata, the Trinity of Fundamentals and I Rigoberta Menchu ! 📚

Regular membership includes the core texts, a wonderful bag and a range of goodies including additional books and products by .co and more!

The theme is Literature for Liberation and will be running from September to November and hosted by our brilliant editor and book club host

What to expect:

As censorship tightens its grip on political discourse worldwide, and the foundations of independent media appear to be shaken to their core, shado’s seventh book cluster dares to imagine what a liberation media landscape could look like.

Weaving together a tapestry of seminal autobiographies from revolutionaries across various struggles, readers are invited to explore the role of storytelling in our collective political education and movement ecosystems.

In each session, we will feature organisers from today’s movements as speakers – guiding us through the lessons we can learn from these powerful testimonies.

Tickets: https://shado-mag.com/shados-bookshelf-07-literature-for-liberation/

02/08/2024

Today would have been James Baldwin’s 100th birthday.

shado editor writes a piece reflecting on Baldwin’s legacy of hope as a matter of politics and how Palestinians are embodying this optimism as a means of survival.

Elia writes: “It is very revealing indeed that when not posting about the living hell that Israel has brought upon them, Palestinians on social media are posting videos of being in community. They’re cooking for others using humanitarian aid, they’re DIY-ing the rubble of destroyed homes and dreams into works of art, they’re getting their hair cut, they’re hanging out with loved ones and just being there for one another. If anyone needs examples of mutual aid, they’re there, every day. Palestinians are turning death into life, even as the world’s so-called democracies condemned them all to death. Why would they even bother if there was never any hope?“

🎨 .illustration

[id: Elia’s title over Tinuke’s illustration, which is of the famous portrait of Baldwin smoking a cigarette, wearing a green shirt and a purple cravat.]

02/08/2024

Sometimes a picture (or tweet) says a thousand words… here’s a moodboard for our upcoming shado bookshelf cluster Literature for Liberation 📚⛓️‍💥

Sign up via link in bio!

Image 1 - X/twitter: tamara k. nopper

Image 2 - X/twitter: 1964 archives

Image 3 - Cherrie Moraga, preface to the fourth edition of This Bridge Called My Back

Image 4 - X/twitter: 1964 archives , from “ the hidden half “ (2001) dir. Tahmine Milani

Image 5 - Affirmation by Assata Shakur

Image 6 - Students read The revolution of ‘36 and ‘39 in Palestine by Ghassan Kanafani and The Trinity of Fundamentals by Wisam Rafeedie

Image 7 - @1804 books

Image 8 - source unknown

31/07/2024

writes our latest piece, all about how surveillance culture isn’t just coming from above — we’re all entrenched in the society of the spectacle.

Adele writes: “Our cultural norms have shifted, making peer to peer surveillance more acceptable, whilst the tech companies give us tools that make it ever so convenient to spy on our own communities. As journalist Kashmir Hill writes in ‘Your Face Belongs To Us,’ it’s no longer just Big Brother that of governments and police departments – but our surveillance infrastructure has trickled down to Little Brother too – neighbours, ex-partners, strangers.“

🎨 who says: “I wanted to emphasise hiding behind a digital screen, always watching always being able to access parts of people’s lives that have never been available to us before.”

⛓️‍💥 link in .mag bio

[id: Adele’s title over Rosa’s illustration, which shows a figure holding a phone over their eyes, headphones in, with a number of colourful screens behind them.]

30/07/2024

New podcast episode! 🎶 📚

Do you often feel hopeless? Do you find it hard to imagine a better future for our world? So do we – which is why and are bringing you this 3 part mini-series with : World Building and Re-Imagination: How Fiction Can Free Us

Our bookclub – shado’s bookshelf – ran earlier this year, and was a journey through some of the best science fiction, speculative and political fiction of past and present. How can fiction help us imagine and create different worlds? These kind of questions are more necessary now than ever, in a political moment defined by apathy and fear.

We need radical and visionary politics of action and creation! This mini-series we’ll be taking each book and delving into the stories that can help us imagine otherwise, sharing insights from our book club for those who missed it.

Our first book, Palestine+100, is an anthology which poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba?

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2bT1cTUwvv8xEwtuxAndY5?si=339f754a782a46e5

Design:
Podcast producer .carla

29/07/2024

Simón Sedillo has spent the last 25 years investigating + documenting historical and contemporary acts of military and paramilitary violence in Mexico. He argues that the brutality of the so-called “counter-protestors” attacking pro-Palestine students in is directly linked to the “dirty war” tactics of the CIA in Mexico.

Simón writes: “What was witnessed at UCLA in May this year can easily be associated with the Mexican dirty war strategy of porrismo, first and foremost because of the level of documented impunity granted to the violent attackers by the university and the police. It is this impunity that exposes a clear relationship between supposed fringe counter-protestors and university and police authorities. We do not have any footage of the police or military standing by during a porro attack in Mexico since the early 1970s. As a result attacks have become extremely violent and even deadly in the coming decades.”

🎨 who says: “For this illustration, I wanted to emphasize the point in this article that police not only execute violence on behalf of the state, but also determine permissible violence within society. By “looking the other way”, American police officers give license to rightwing paramilitary individuals and organizations to enact violence on those deemed a threat to state interests. This tactic is now being employed to intimidate, maim, and demoralize the anti-genocide movement in the US.”

[id: Simón’s title over Walker’s illustration, which shows a figure holding a 🇵🇸 flag being beaten by two figures in grey. A policeman is in the foreground of the image, ignoring the violence.]

29/07/2024

Tickets now live! 📚

We are thrilled to announce our 7th book club cluster: Literature for Liberation running from September to November and hosted by our brilliant editor and book club host

What to expect:

As censorship tightens its grip on political discourse worldwide, and the foundations of independent media appear to be shaken to their core, shado’s seventh book cluster dares to imagine what a liberation media landscape could look like.

Weaving together a tapestry of seminal autobiographies from revolutionaries across various struggles, readers are invited to explore the role of storytelling in our collective political education and movement ecosystems.

In each session, we will feature organisers from today’s movements as speakers – guiding us through the lessons we can learn from these powerful testimonies.

Tickets: https://shado-mag.com/shados-bookshelf-07-literature-for-liberation/

Design

27/07/2024

Artist Spotlight! 🎨✨

In our weekly .mag newsletter we speak to different artists from around the world, using their practice for social justice.

This week we spotlighted the work of (he/him), a Black British London-based freelance artist and illustrator. His work is characterised by the use of patterns, textures, and vibrant colours to create compelling and vivid characters that celebrate Black culture and identity.

[ID: in the image there is a pink and blue galaxy effect background with a orangey pink heart shape in the middle with the name Dwayne Parkinson Williams on it. In the corner of the image is a headshot of Dwayne.]

26/07/2024

Now live on the site, from shado’s mentorship programme writes about how, in one of the biggest global election years, we should be conscious of the threats to our freedom posed by AI.

Nikta writes: “The integrity of the information that holds our attention has no bearing on revenues. If anything, the more corrupt the information, the better bait to drive extraction. Journalists are pushed out of the picture, and news content now operates in an engagement-based zone, away from the public and professional standards of news institutions, into a path where misinformation flourishes because Big Tech prioritises revenues.”

🎨 who says: “A glitchy eye preys on a man, feeding him content. Its invisible hands eventually drag him away into a ballot box, turning his voice irrelevant.”

[id: Nikta’s title over Driss’ image, which shows a man in a red shirt being grabbed by white hands as he looks at a phone screen.]

25/07/2024

Did you know that the five .stopoil activists who got sentenced last week were given the longest sentence in British history for non-violent protest?

writes about why this clampdown on protest should alarm us all. “Hemingway once wrote that a person goes bankrupt “gradually, then suddenly.” The same applies to losing our civil liberties. What we are seeing now is the gradual erosion rights and liberties – for all of us. Even if most people don’t realise it or claim not to care, weakening our right to protest government policy should cause outrage in all of us. We must speak up before we lose even more.”

[id: Henry’s title over an image of JSO protestors marching in London, with Big Ben in the background, holding a yellow sign reading CHANGE IS NOW]

24/07/2024

Hope you’re all sitting down for this one, because we’ve got a conversation between two powerhouses for you. chats with about her brilliant new book: ‘Why would feminists trust the police?’

Not only does Leah come up with an entirely new term - “sectorification” - the pair also deep dive into white supremacy, the policing of Black q***r joy, and ultimately the fact that British feminism, policing and fascism have *always* been intertwined.

As Larissa writes, “From neighbourly chat, to the camaraderie of our organising spaces, it is through connection and community that liberation-oriented feminist movements have won, and will win. Why would feminists trust the police? is soul-baring in retelling the reality of conflict within the feminist movement in the UK, depicting exactly why abolitionist feminists don’t trust policing to save us. It does so, not only to change our understanding of the past, but to take off rose-tinted glasses in the present, and shape our vision for abolitionist feminist futures – compelling us to get organised.”

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[id: Larissa’s title over Alia’s photos, which are two film-style images of Leah twirling around in Hampstead Heath. She’s wearing a long sleeved pale yellow top, black trousers and a black belt.]

20/07/2024

This was a difficult one, but we also had a lot of fun compiling this in the process. Above are a list of shado’s editors best books of the 21st century, spanning fiction, non-fiction and autobiographies.

Reccomendations from .91

What have we missed? What else have you loved? Share your recommendations in the comments!

18/07/2024

“As an anti-capitalist with a background in organising, there was one realisation that made me pivot to teaching s*x education, writes Tara Michaela, founder of . “Sex negativity, or the taboo nature of s*x, is as pervasive as it is because it is profitable.”

Tara writes about the links between proper s*x education, abolition, reducing s*xual harm and how real advocacy is revolutionary.

Full piece ⛓️‍💥 in .mag bio!

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[id: Tara’s title over Esther’s illustration, which sees a couple embracing, framed by broken chains. The background is purple.]

16/07/2024

Now live on the site: writes all about the co-option of climate activists by a capitalist system and the idea of “elite capture” — a term that Olúfémi O. Táíwo attributes to the notion of how the powerful have taken over identity politics.

Padmini writes: With sustainability now given the verified “blue tick” by capitalism, luxury brands, the economic elite, and even large companies marketed as sustainable and ethical have increasingly used climate activists and sustainability influencers as a way to amass and justify their growing profits. Via association with climate activists, the product-pushing powers are provided with the social licence to continue operating on flawed capitalist structures – a type of insidious greenwashing, or “social-washing.”

🎨 .k who says: “The large wealthy hand symbolises luxury brands, poised to grip elite environmental activists. The mist to the side represents the smokescreen of sustainability and ethicality that conceals these industries’ true intentions, enabling them to sustain and justify their growing profits.”

[id: Padmini’s title over Emilie’s purple illustration, which is of a hand covered in jewellery holding a figure holding a “go green” banner.]

12/07/2024

Guest episode: For First Nations Storytelling is Self-determination

is back with another guest episode, this time discussing the power of storytelling through a First Nations worldview with distinguished professor Larissa Behrendt AO.

Larissa has a legal background with a strong track record in the areas of Indigenous law, policy, creative arts, education and research. She is a Native Title holder and member of the Yuwaalaraay (yuwalarai) Euahlayi Aboriginal Corporation and is also a member of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council.

Larissa is also an award-winning author, filmmaker and host of Speaking Out on ABC Radio. In this episode, Larissa shares about her upbringing as an Aboriginal woman and how storytelling has been a practice for cultural preservation, healing and advocacy for her.

Podcast producer .carla
Assets .bacchus

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3buNwIvHex39GGfPQzjlrU?si=079980c8f8414df5

10/07/2024

Read on for an intergenerational conversation between two Filipino climate activists 🇵🇭

Earlier this year, from sat down with to talk about the importance of the Filipino diaspora in amplifying the demands of those in the Philippines who are at the frontline of the climate breakdown.

They talk about parental responsibility, the power of hope, and the strength of community.

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[id: Rachelle’s title over Natasha’s illustration, which is a mixture of brightly coloured painting of figures walking on a globe towards the sun, and collages of Mitzi in action.]

08/07/2024

In 2020, met Palestinian artist to talk about his work, politics and creative outlook.

Now, amidst a vastly different backdrop of ongoing genocide, Phoebe speaks with the artist again. From his home in Ramallah, Wafa talks about the role of art in reimagining otherwise, the universality of his work, and the importance of hope.

⛓️‍💥 link to read in bio!

[id: Phoebe’s title over an image from Wafa’s series ‘The Image of Everything’, where there is an aerial view of Gaza and a figure sitting at a desk covered in books and a human skull. The background is a colourful collage, from the same series.]

02/07/2024

writes about her experience of vaginismus and how her Catholic schooling and upbringing in rural Ireland - which created a stigma around anything perceived to be s*xual - stifled medical professionalism.

“Children don’t need shame or policing; they need care and curiosity. They deserve to live in a society where we become women at 18, not when, as a family member once generously inferred, there is something to imagine beneath our clothes. They deserve to spend their 20s living a life they are bold enough to choose and create, rather than recovering from their upbringing. And, for those of us who can’t change the past, we deserve resources.“

One of these resources Maedbh signposts is - and she speaks to its founder, about their shared experiences of tired tropes from GPs and Ireland’s history of institutionalised misogyny.

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[id: Maedbh’s title over Rosa’s illustration, which sees a figure kneeling in prayer, with a sun behind them, enveloped in a purple plant.]

27/06/2024

it’s less than 24 hours until our glasto panel on the information stage in silver hayes 🏕️ are you as excited as we are?!?

this is a crucial moment to talk about the power of boycott. all of us have a role to play in making collective action so loud that it can’t be ignored!!! from fair fashion to Palestinian liberation, boycotts are powerful tools and WE WILL WIN.

come along to find out how from our incredible panellists. add the event to your line up on the glasto app so you don’t forget + see you tomorrow❤️‍🔥

[id: blue black ground with pink details and pink writing which reads: shado mag panel:The Power of Boycott

12:00-13:00 Friday 28th June The Information Silver Hayes

Speakers: YIZ - NOVO, NIK - Q***R HOUSE PARTY,
AHMED ALNAOUQ - WE ARE NOT NUMBERS, VENETIA LA MANNA - REMEMBER WHO MADE THEM

HOST: LARISSA KENNEDY]

26/06/2024

To urge the environmentalist movement to be more intersectional, Chico Mendes famously said: “environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening.” However, believes this underestimates the radical potential that gardening can have. She writes a piece about ***rgardening - a q***r gardening group in Newcastle, which she’s been part of since 2023.

“TopSoil embodies the future we are fighting for: one of q***r joy, community support and togetherness. Where our q***rness is not at odds with our connection to nature. Nature does not fit into neat binary categories or expectations. From gay penguins to multi-partnered fungi (as described by .sheldrake in his book Entangled Life), nature defies heteronormative, binary and monogamous expectations.

The future TopSoil imagines a future where rest, taking things slowly, connecting to the earth and producing on a small scale is not questioned but celebrated. It is anti-capitalism in action.“

🎨 .s who says: “Reading Jemima’s piece was so nurturing and soul-warming. I wanted to really capture what TopSoil are doing for our community and how healing and special the space is. The act of gardening as a political movement is one thing, but the way it can nurture q***r bodies is another thing in itself. Jemima’s experience was beautiful to read and so thought provoking.”

[id: Jemima’s title over Boe’s illustration, which is of a pink flower which has two little cartoon heads inside it, smiling.]

24/06/2024

- founder of - is part of local conservation efforts in rural Perthshire. She writes a piece on how white environmentalism and legacies of colonialism and ecofascism are still at play in the conservation space.

“As a migrant and person of mixed heritage, I’ve often struggled with the xenophobic language that surrounds UK conservation. Species that are considered “invasive” are linked to being “non-native”, often with their country of origin mentioned to emphasise their foreignness, like Japanese knotweed and Himalayan balsam. Blame is put on the immigrant.

This is, in part, driven by government efforts. The Non-Native Species Secretariat (NNSS) represents the governments of England, Scotland and Wales. It is dedicated to taking action against the “threat of invasive non-native species.” This rhetoric mirrors Suella Braverman’s racist comments describing the movement of people crossing the Channel to seek asylum as an “invasion.”

🎨 .bacchus who says: As described in Aileen’s piece, Botanist Hewett Cottrell Watson was one of the first to introduce categories as a way to describe plants in Britain – “native”, “denizen” and “alien”:
“Native” – The Poppy flower is a symbol of Remembrance and support for military forces, which is represented as ‘native’ in the UK. The Poppy is native to Palestine and holds many deep symbolism, e.g. Palestinian heritage, resistance, resilience and hope.
“Denizen” – The Cherry Blossom is native to the entirety of eastern Asia, also called Sakura in Japan. The flowers are grown in the UK and perfectly adapted to the British spring weather.
“Alien” – The Faqqua Iris is the national flower of Palestine which thrives in the special climate of the Faqqua mountains. The flower is rarely cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions, for example the UK.”

[id: a screenshot of Aileen’s title over Sayeeda’s illustration of a red poppy, a pink cherry blossom, and purple iris, each with flags over the top (japanese, british and palestinian).]

20/06/2024

Agnieszka Holland’s latest release, Green Border, is out in the UK and Ireland tomorrow. Back in March, chatted with her about the film - which is fictional but heavily influenced by real events at the Belarus-Poland border - as a piece which weaves together many perspectives, from local activists, to border guards, to of course the people attempting to cross the border.

Henry writes: “If Agnieszka was inspired to make Green Border from anger, she certainly instils that feeling in her viewers. Watching the film, my emotions ranged from rage to despair to shame to determination. Often, all at the same time. Cinema makes passive subjects of us; we are forced to watch something we can’t control. But films can also make us active citizens and campaigners. If nothing else, I hope people watching Green Border will start to question the very nature of borders and the trials of statelessness.”

[id: a screenshot of henry’s title over a still from the film, which is a black-and-white shot of a man with his hands on his head and a young girl looking at a border guard.]

17/06/2024

Earlier this year, .c.energy sat down with - poet, theatre-maker, actor and writer who set up the s*x worker-led performing arts company *xquisite.events back in 2019. Along with co-founder Alex, Maedb also set up - a meaningfully intersectional, POC and s*x worker led kink night.

Nicole chats to Maedb about the importance of building community for s*x workers, whose profession can make them uniquely isolated from society; the stigmas against s*x work which create organisational barriers for both collectives; and some of the wins in the movement.

⛓️‍💥 link in .mag bio!

🎨 who gives the id: “The picture shows a collage of individuals striking various poses in the forefront. This is mixed in with line drawn figures in the background. In a vibrant yellow, the line drawings depict figures acrobatically dancing around poles and hoops. The pink box in the top left of the piece holds the title of the piece: Destigmatising s*x work.”

14/06/2024

Artist Spotlight! 🎨✨

In our weekly .mag newsletter we speak to different artists from around the world, using their practice for social justice.

This week we spotlighted the work of , a Freelance Art Director and 3D Artist in London whose work focuses on cultural preservation and digital inclusivity

[ID: in the image there is a pink and blue galaxy effect background with a orangey pink heart shape in the middle with the name Natalie Liu on it. In the corner of the image is a headshot of Natalie]

13/06/2024

Claudia Jones said: “a people’s art is the genesis of their freedom.”

In May, worked with and the local Latimer Road community to paint a mural under the Westway dual carriageway. Painted the week after Nakba Day and the weeks before the anniversary of Grenfell, its timing and location was significant.

As PYM write, “the mural was a project of material solidarity that highlights the interconnected nature of our struggles and affirms our collective commitment to resistance until justice from Grenfell to Gaza.”

Full piece in .mag bio ⛓️‍💥

[id: a screenshot of the title over an image taken of people painting the mural on Latimer Road - with pomegranates, poppies, keffiyehs and olives.]

10/06/2024

is the latest mentee in our writers programme to publish a piece, now live on the site. In her article, Lillie speaks with fellow Tunisian climate activist .zrelli about their shared Amazigh roots, youth action and how re-Indigenising their relationship with Earth informs their activism from different sides of the world.

As Lillie writes: “As our archives are living, embedded in our culture, they can feel intangible and difficult to grasp. This requires us to step up and radically engage with our elders and our communities and ensure this knowledge is passed down and preserved. It requires us to build our archives by hand, for us, by us.“

🎨 who says: “I wanted to illustrate the Amazigh women wrapped in their Indigenous culture and landscapes of Tunisia. Inspired by the beautiful exploration of the symbiotic practices of Tunisian Amazigh women in the piece.”

[id: a screenshot of Lillie’s title over Javie’s illustration, which shows two faces of Amazigh women, over olive trees and a bright sun.]

09/06/2024

What is settler colonialism?

Our social feeds and organising spaces are often filled with activist terminology - but without deconstructing these concepts and recognising the grassroots movements where they originated, many of us can be left behind. Our Knowledge Pages aim to break down and decolonise these concepts and topics in an accessible way, show how they link to wider global movements and give guidelines on how you can take action.

In our latest Knowledge Page, explain what settler colonialism is, how it differs from colonialism, global examples and how communities are resisting it.

“Under settler colonialism, the colonised population is not just subjugated: it is physically removed and then replaced by a settler population. This physical removal can occur through displacement, forced expulsion, and/or actual extermination and genocide.

In settler colonial contexts, the colonised population, or the Indigenous inhabitants, are seen as obstacles in the way of control of the land and its resources. For this reason, settler colonialism is often seen as the most violent and even deadly form of colonial rule.”

🎨 who says “This image depicts the contrast between the impacts of war. It showcases a viewer holding an old photo of a landscape view of an olive orchard with the Dome of the Rock in the distance. It was taken before the settler colonialism in Palestine. The background illustrates the olive orchard destroyed by fire and the vicinity of the Dome of the Rock engulfed in smoke.”

05/06/2024

SHADO MAG COMMITS TO PACBI: The Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

In the words of one of our writers, Masa Nazzal, “To grieve is to act on this injustice. To grieve is to move against the tide of order. To grieve is to fight for justice. To grieve is to enter truth. To grieve is to return to the oneness of reality. To grieve is to become.”

In this spirit, we are proud to adhere to the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), because decolonisation never was, and never will be, a metaphor.

We refuse to accept that any cultural or academic development should come at the cost of Palestinian freedom, justice, and equality.

To read our full statement of commitment to PACBI and learn more about the boycott, please visit our website via the link in bio

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02/06/2024

Artist Spotlight! 🎨✨

In our weekly .mag newsletter we speak to different artists from around the world, using their practice for social justice.

This week we spotlighted the work of Ashley Suszczynski, a visual anthropologist based in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, focused on capturing ancient traditions in the modern day. She aims to raise awareness about how lesser known cultures, relics, rites, and rituals have withstood time and evolved in our ever-changing world. Through visual storytelling, she hopes to share knowledge and understanding of these age-old customs in order to continue their preservation and social approval.

[ID: in the image there is a pink and blue galaxy effect background with a orangey pink heart shape in the middle with the name Ashley Suszczynski on it. In the corner of the image is a headshot of Ashley]

31/05/2024

This year we’ve been excited to work with the wonderful team at to spotlight some of the exciting filmmakers and films in their programme this year.

In todays interview speaks to Sula Douglas-Folkes about delving into Black women in cinema, the influence of religion, and her hopes for the future.

Nikki writes, “The future of cinema, and the need for it to be more inclusive, robust and vibrant, should always be asserted. However, what programming like Sula’s shows, is that, we shouldn’t forget to also look to the past, and be undeniably thankful to the enduring legacy of Black women storytellers who dared to dream before we did.”

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https://shado-mag.com/see/archiving-film-history-belongs-to-those-that-document-it/

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shado is expanding, and we are beyond excited to share our new team of editors! Meet Addis (USA), Joey (Switzerland via Lebanon), Tommy (London), Marina (Mexico), Niel (The Bahamas) and Samara (USA/Occupied Territory) and head to the link in bio to find out more! 🎥 @finmelluish

@shado.mag has launched a bookclub! shado's Bookshelf has been established to bring people together to explore some of the brilliant authors using storytelling for social justice, led by the @sharlene_gandhi And we're doing things a bit differently – splitting the sessions into 3-month clusters where we will be exploring one specific theme through a fiction, memoir and non-fiction book. Our first theme is Caste and Identity and our first fiction had to be 'God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy, which we'll use as a starting point to talk through what caste discrimination looks like in South Asia, and how cultural norms perpetuate this type of discrimination too. First session: Monday 25th April 6.30pm **To keep the book club a space for conversation, resource sharing and action we are limiting attendees to 20 people. Link in bio to sign up! Video @finmelluish Assets @tinuke.illustration

Over two years in the making and we’re so thrilled with our collaboration with Comfort Angels – a documentary short spotlighting the power of football in bringing communities together. In the video, we hear from Comfort, Hane, Kate and Mansura about their experiences of the UK’s asylum system, the barriers faced by women and why safe spaces like this football team are so important for inclusion and community. Watch the video and donate to the team via the link in bio! Please support and share! A huge thank you to @thisfangirl_ and @mishcon_de_reya for their support in bringing this to life. Videography and Direction: @ines_hachou Production: @shado.mag Sound: Kian Johnson Music: David Nicholas @flat6music Additional support and consultation: @nazihakarima and Tasneem Tawil

We are unbelievably excited to finally release a @shado.mag project we’ve been working on for over two years in collaboration with @amnestyuk and @comfortangels21 ! Since 2020, we’ve had the privilege of working with Comfort Etim and the women who form Comfort Angels, a football team bringing inclusion and integration to refugees and women seeking asylum in Liverpool. Click through to watch the full video and find out more about ways to support the team and the specific barriers faced by women going through the asylum seeking process. A huge thank you to @thisfangirl_ and @mishcon_de_reya for their support in bringing this to life. Videography and Direction: @ines_hachou Production: shado Sound: Kian Johnson Music: David Nicholas Additional support and consultation: Naziha Arebi and @t_eltaweel

Last summer, @sylkysydney led on some workshops with the Lanfranc girls at @footballbeyondborders for a @shado.mag collab. Check out some of what they got up to in this video by @finmelluish with beats by @mom.tudie ✨✨✨

Borders, Bills and the Hostile Environment

A couple of weeks ago @shado.mag were extremely lucky to hold an incredible conversation on the topics of ancestry, reconnecting to Indigenous knowledge, the power of youth and the fight for climate justice. Here, one of our panelists @nuestrasraicesverdes talks about growing up in diaspora in the US and discerning her Indigenous lived experience from that of the white Latina. 🎨 @alexefrancis [ID: @nuestrasraicesverdes speaks in the middle of the video. The border is dark green with orange flowers. Samara’s name is in a bright green cloud shape at the top and the subtitles are shown in a light green cloud shape at the bottom]

A couple of weeks ago @shado.mag were lucky to hold an incredible conversation on the topics of ancestry, reconnecting to Indigenous knowledge, the power of youth and the fight for climate justice. Here, one of our panelists @clayton_thomas_muller talks about the importance of language and how it is within Indigenous language that this crucial connection to Mother Earth is housed. Clayton also spoke about the current movements for land sovereignty and climate justice and the importance of involving Indigenous youth in these movements. 🎨 @alexefrancis [ID: @clayton_thomas_muller speaks in the middle of the video. The border is dark green with orange flowers. Clayton’s name is in a bright green cloud shape at the top and the subtitles are shown in a light green cloud shape at the bottom]

Last week we held an incredible conversation on the topics of ancestry, reconnecting to Indigenous knowledge, the power of youth movements and the fight for climate justice. Here one of our panelists @thebonitachola talks about the her role as an ancestor and the importance of education young people so that Indigenous knowledge is passed down through generations 🎨 @alexefrancis [ID: @thebonitachola speaks in the middle of the video. The border is dark green with orange flowers. Angela’s name is in a bright green cloud shape at the top and the subtitles are shown in a like green cloud shape at the bottom ]

Legacies of ancestry: how do we lay the paths for future generations?

SHADO ARTIST GRANT - MANCHESTER We’re offering an exciting opportunity for 10 Manchester based artists to work with shado on the development of a collaborative project and community event around the theme of Reimagination. Each artist will receive a grant of £500 to develop their work and the project will culminate in their work being exhibited at the community event later this year. If this sounds of interest, please get in touch and email [email protected] with your portfolio by Friday 18th February. 🎨 @alexefrancis [ID: There is a bright pink background with the words ‘submissions from Manchester Based artists’ in the middle. On the borders of the image are red roses which represent the city of Manchester]

SHADO ARTIST GRANT - CARDIFF We’re offering an exciting opportunity for 10 Cardiff based artists to work with shado on the development of a collaborative project and community event around the theme of Reimagination. Each artist will receive a grant of £500 to develop their work and the project will culminate in their work being exhibited at the community event later this year. If this sounds of interest, please get in touch and email [email protected] with your portfolio by Friday 18th February. 🎨 @alexefrancis [ID: There is a bright orange background with the words ‘submissions from Cardiff Based artists’ in the middle. On the borders of the image are daffodils which represent the city of Cardiff’]

SHADO ARTIST GRANT - BIRMINGHAM We’re offering an exciting opportunity for 10 Birmingham based artists to work with shado on the development of a collaborative project and community event around the theme of Reimagination. Each artist will receive a grant of £500 to develop their work and the project will culminate in their work being exhibited at the community event later this year. If this sounds of interest, please get in touch and email [email protected] with your portfolio by Friday 18th February. 🎨 @alexefrancis [ID: there is a purple background and on the borders are illustrations of an anchor and chains which are the symbol that represents Birmingham. ]

Why reparations are crucial to climate solutions

This week we’re celebrating the release of our 100th newsletter! Each week, our team of editors curate their recommendations from inside shado and out, spotlighting the incredible work being done by folks on the frontline. One of our readers said: “This is the only newsletter I look forward to opening every week – it’s the best collection of intersectional issues, amazing artist spotlights and calls to action for those of us feeling overwhelmed at how we can help.” So what have you been missing out on and why should you subscribe? Each week we offer: ✨ Exclusive interviews with emerging creatives and frontline organisations ✨ Our picks of upcoming online and in-person events ✨ Book reviews ✨ Job opportunities across the media, activism and arts sector ✨ Article, song, podcast and film recommendations ✨ News from shado’s contributors Sign up now for free (link in bio) to receive our next newsletter – out this Friday. 🎨 @alexefrancis [ID: The animation design concept centres around an eye: this is to represent how the newsletter keeps up to date with all shado’s recommendations, with the transition between frames being the eye blinking. The eye is in the centre of each frame and has a bright orange border. On the first frame there is an image of a person standing side on, looking to the right of the image, with blue sky and long green grass in the background. They have a long ponytail and wear a yellow top. In the second frame, a group of people stand on a grassy hill against a city skyline. The third frame has two models dressed in white with bare feet, posing on a striped rug. One of the models wears a headdress made of shells. On the fourth frame, there is a picture of a job opportunity from It’s Freezing in LA (@itsfreezinginla ). There are letters on top of a inky background. On the fifth frame, there is an image of the front cover of Paul Mendez’s book ‘Rainbow Milk’ (@pxxlmxndxz ) which shows a figure lying on

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We are Shado, an online and print publication celebrating the engagement between arts, activism and academia, and their joint role in spotlighting marginalised issues. Shado exists to support the voices and work of those at the frontline of political, social and cultural change.

Each issue explores a different topic and showcases the unique responses of artists, activists and academics from around the world.