Activism
Five ways to promote gender equality in everyday life
How to talk to girls — A week on from the Women’s Marches across the globe, here are five things you can do every day for the rest of your life to promote gender equality.
Written by: Naomi Westland
The Travel Diary: A Romanian paradise fading away
What you see along the way — Photographer Dan Kendall explores the Romanian coastal village of Vama Veche, a once vibrant resort now searching for a future and identity.
Written by: Dan Kendall
We tagged along with activists ad-hacking the tube
Breaking the rules — With injustice all around us, activists are constantly being forced to find new ways to grab our attention. We join campaigners from No More Deportations as they take to the London underground network at night to ad-hack, highlighting the inhumane deportations the British state subjects people to.
Written by: Oobah Butler
Making a Feminist: From girlhood to motherhood, my fight continues
From Where I Stand — On Saturday 21 January 2017, history was made. The largest ever worldwide demonstration organised by women marched on towns and cities across the globe. Much attention has been given to the stats and figures, but every women on every march has their own story of how they were made a feminist. This is Naomi Westland's.
Written by: Naomi Westland
Transgender prisoners are being failed by the system
Here's what needs to change — A crowd gathered at Pentonville Prison in London last night on Trans Prisoner Day of Action, with events held globally to highlight issues facing trans prisoners: denied hormones, misgendered, facing disproportionate levels of mental health issues, violence and abuse. Campaigner Kuchenga Shenjé addressed the vigil, and her speech is produced below.
Written by: Imani Robinson // Kuchenga Shenjé
A photographer's ode to Baltimore's beautiful street scenes
Not a moment, but a movement — From misty nightscapes to civil unrest, Josh Sinn has spent years capturing the heart of a complex, often misunderstood city.
Written by: Cian Traynor
My Month With Trump: He came in like a wrecking ball
Mary Numair kicks off — It's happened. Donald Trump is President of the United States. What lies ahead is still unknown, but throughout this Presidency Huck will be keeping track by dropping in on real people, not stats. In our new series, My Month With Trump, guest writers explain the impact this new administration is having on their lives. First up is Mary Numair: a humorist, feminist and writer from Portland, Oregon, who can't take stop staring at the car crash that is the new President's Twitter account.
Written by: Mary Numair
Women's March on London: Should we thank the new President?
A movement catalysed — On the day after America’s new President is sworn in, over 100,000 people march through the capital for the Women's March on London. But this isn't about POTUS.
Written by: Lidia Buonaiuto
This is what Havana’s growing WiFi revolution looks like
A nation gets online... sort of — After years of disconnection, Cuba's government has introduced 35 WiFi hotspots across the country, providing outdoor hubs that offer a portal to other worlds. Cuban writer Osdany Morales takes us inside that vortex – and the pixelated dreams that live there.
Written by: Osdany Morales. Translation: Tess Rankin
Anti-Trump protests hit London
'Trump's a wasteman' — Protestors and police clashed in central London last night as anti-Trump protests kicked off in the city, with a giant Trump head effigy being beaten to a pulp.
Written by: Michael Segalov