#gal-dem

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Rina Sawayama wearing RICHARD QUINN – GAL-DEM

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gal-dem going out of business at a time when very few media outlets are doing serious work on trans issues, in a country where white middle-class voices dominate the media, is really fucking grim.

anyway, here's a classic to remind you what we're losing:

Keir Starmer is a wet wipe

The Labour leader's 2020 has been defined by fence-sitting.

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'Productivity Culture at Oxford Uni, My Chronic Illness and Me', as published in gal-dem.

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Amita Suman's Interview with gal-dem is amazing!

About what Amita feels she brought to Inej due to her personal experiences:

“As a brown character predominantly in a white place, even in Ketterdam, she celebrates her uniqueness, and she fights for equality in such a powerful way. So that’s something that I took away as well – to try and do that, not out of fear, but out of empowerment. That was a really, really important lesson that I didn’t know I needed to learn until I did and it’s something that I will always carry forward with me.”

About Inej as a survivor of sexual exploitation:

“Everyone has their own choice of how they want to deal with their trauma, and no matter what their choice is, it should always be respected.[...] With Inej, even though she’s gone through all of this and it will always be a huge part of her, she’s learned to still move forward, live life and make sure that other people don’t go through the same thing. Just seeing someone still move on, but not forget, and have those scars, but still live their life to the fullest. It’s a really inspiring story.”

About the Brown Face Issue:

“I would love to answer it. But because I didn’t have any choice of who my stunt double was going to be, I think that’s a great question for Netflix. I don’t feel it’s right for me to say anything as of yet.”

READ FULL HERE

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Rina Sawayama x Gal-Dem Magazine

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'The state will not save us, only we can save us': a collective response to Covid-19 | gal-dem

An open letter, on what we must do to mitigate this crisis.

“Coronavirus is a political issue. At root, this pandemic is a disease of global capitalism, both in its genesis and its transmission. Without the drive towards overproduction, the particular conditions for the increased occurrence of infectious disease would not exist; without global commodity chains and regular labour migration, the spread of disease would not be so rapid; without the ruling classes’ vested interests in maintaining capital flow, people would not be forced to continue to work, further exposing themselves to the virus.As abolitionist organisers, our resistance to the effects of this virus are rooted in a vision of a world without borders, prisons, or the police – structures that exclude and exploit the most marginalised.

 The world we need now is one that we have always needed: a world where everyone can access healthcare, where everyone has a safe place to live, where no one is locked in a cage, where there is no imperative to work – a world that is accessible to disabled people. What this pandemic puts in sharp relief is the fact that the same conditions that already place certain communities at greater proximity to death are detrimental to the health of all. “

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Leigh-Anne will be live on Gal-Dem’s Instagram 19th May at 5:30pm BST - via Instagram Stories, 18th May 2020

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Conan Gray is the YouTuber-turned-popstar carving out space for Asian artists | gal-dem

In the midst of his European tour, we caught up with pop sensation Conan Gray to talk music, growing-up mixed race and his fiercely dedicate

Conan’s interview with Gal-Dem

May 9, 2019