A letter from the editor
Volume 4. Issue 4: a powerful, Travis Scott-fronted issue that takes on the pandemic, politics and protest, sports, stars and style.
Politics
The Black Art Matters protesters calling for change
We hear from the people on the ground standing against the severe under-representation of Black/POC artists and faces in the UK’s long standing art institutions.
The battle for Exarchia: Athens’ anarchist neighbourhood
Activists, police and government are fighting it out for the future of an area known for its egalitarian principles and legacy of resistance. Who’s going to win out?
Shirt power: how football kits got political
From BLM to gay pride, local teams are showing the big boys of the Premiership how to do football strip politics.
Andrea Jenkins: “I am the right’s worst nightmare, a Black trans woman with political power”
We speak to the rising tide of trans US politicians winning public office: Colorado’s Brianna Titone, Rosemary Ketchum, West Virginia’s first openly trans lawmaker, and Andrea Jenkins, founder of Trans United Fund and the first trans Black woman to be elected to office.