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24/09/2026

In today’s piece, Francesca Humi speaks with different anti-raids activists organising against state violence, exploring their power from Haringey to Kenmure Street.

As Francesca writes: “Organising against immigration raids is not just about making the work of immigration enforcement more difficult, it is also about building stronger communities: knowing your neighbours, and building a sense of responsibility and care for each other. Community resistance to raids will be strongest where there is a strong sense of community.”

Pinar Aksu
Everybody To Kenmure Street!

🎨 Natasha Phang-Lee who says: “The illustration shows a collage of imagery – three figures are drawn enclosed behind wire fencing, a lawyer stands dressed in legal uniform holding documents, policemen and armed forces are depicted in black, with barbed wire fencing shown in black and white. Around these illustrations are cut outs of a British Passport, and passport stamps. The phrase, ‘grounds for detention and conditions in centres have become significantly worse’ sits in the centre of the image in black and white.”

11/09/2026

“How do I get the mandem to come to the opera?”

This is the question posed by composer Renell Shaw as he spoke with editor Adébáyọ̀ (NOT Ade) about his new opera Our Eyes Looking for God, ahead of its run at The Barbican. While it looks at the intersection of Black boyhood and state violence, Remell insists that “the nucleus of the story is Black boy joy.”

Adebayo writes: “Weeks of table work, the company sitting together reading and pulling the script apart, sent Remell back through his own childhood and made him see its shape for the first time. “When you’re trying to just get through, you don’t consider how complex survival is. Violence isn’t always physical. Sometimes it’s deeply psychological, and you don’t even know that until you have the space to stop and say, ‘Whose voice is saying this?’ Is it even me believing this thing I’m saying about myself, or has this been imprinted through something else?”

This is where getting the mandem to the opera goes beyond the material conditions that restrict access to the space. It instead looks at the artistic choices, and how the mandem experience the play once access is granted. This is especially captured in Renell’s choice with the music.”

https://shado-mag.com/articles/see/im-singing-because-i-cant-talk-this-sh*t-anymore/

📸 DANNY KAAN

The show’s limited run finishes this Sunday. Head to The Barbican website for more info!

09/09/2026

Back in July, Elia Ayoub went to Belfast during the week of July that includes the yearly bonfires on the 11th as well as the Orangemen’s march on the 12th, to see what – if any – similarities existed between sectarian issues in Northern Ireland / the North of Ireland (NI) and his home country of Lebanon.

He speaks with members of Anaka Women’s Collective - a community group that empowers and supports migrant and refugee women in NI - who have been monitoring the groups responsible for acts of violence against people of colour. In doing so, he discovered that they are rarely spontaneous, and instead products of organised far right strategy.

However, Elia writes, “far right and racist-sectarian actors are not the only organised groups operating in Belfast. One of the surprising things I heard from the Anaka Collective is that, despite the ongoing risks posed by the far right, they felt less anxious around the eleventh and twelfth this year thanks to the massive demonstration against racism that Belfast saw days after the pogroms in June.

One thing I’ve learned from Lebanon is that the process of sectarianisation – the process through which sectarianism is created and reproduced – is not some impermutable law of nature. It is a social construct that also contains within it the potential for its antithesis, de-sectarianisation. The same is true of racialisation, both of which are intimately linked in NI.”

🎨 Alexandra Francis 🌞

https://shado-mag.com/articles/opinion/how-belfast-came-together-after-the-pogrom/

30/08/2026

Important Bank Holiday reading from doctors Dr George Hezekiah Webster MBChB, BSc, MSc and Dr Annabel Sowemimo MBBS MFSRH MSc DipGUM DTM&H DIPM who write about the implications they have witnessed as health workers following the “biologically illiterate” 2024 UK Supreme Court ruling on the legal definitions of ‘sex’, ‘man’ and ‘woman’ (more recently adopted by the EHRC code of practice).

“We have both witnessed the far-reaching implications of the ruling every day on our patients,” they write. “This has included trans patients voicing their distrust of health workers, self-discharging from hospital due to fears about which wards they may be placed on or even refusing necessary medical input altogether. Not only do we feel that this is affecting our patients, but our local communities, contributing to a general widening of health inequalities across the board.”

🎨 Kalakal | Illustrator who says: “A gavel breaches the ground. A trans woman hangs on a stethoscope, carried by a medical worker, symbolising both allyship and how careless decision-makers are about marginalised lives.”

https://shado-mag.com/articles/do/new-anti-trans-legislation-affects-all-nhs-users/

25/08/2026

As we near the end of a Summer of dangerous heatwaves throughout Europe, Berlin-based writer Alice Vyvyan-Jones writes a personal essay about the gendered impact of rising heat and the difficulty of staying cool as a woman navigating cities built for men.

tw: sexual harassment

“As Leslie Kern writes, creating a ‘feminist city’ means thinking about “all the ways that the spaces of the city and their social norms uphold gender inequalities.” Kern argues that urban planning has historically been shaped around an imagined “typical citizen” whose needs don’t reflect the diversity of people actually using the city.

After both incidents, I was hyper-aware that I was no longer just trying to survive the heat, but trying to survive full stop. Whilst men adapted to the heat, I had to adapt to men.”

🎨 who says: “The character’s experience in the sun is marred by an unknown figure behind her, who casts a shadow over her attempts to relax and cool down. The other figures nearby are oblivious (or consciously distant) and equally exposed, yet the unknown figure’s attention is only fixed on her. Even when surrounded by other people, the central character has to remain vigilant.”

https://shado-mag.com/articles/opinion/who-gets-to-stay-cool/

07/08/2026

Do you want to campaign on an issue but not sure where to start? In the latest episode of What Can You Do? shares different organisations, collectives, campaigns and movements you can join depending on the issue you want to work around.

This is by no means a complete list of groups pushing for change, or of issues we are currently facing. If you want to do something about an issue that hasn’t been mentioned, comment below and we will find a group who are working in that field! If you are a campaign group looking for more people, share below.

06/08/2026

In June, Simmone Ahiaku gathered in Brixton with hundreds of others to defend Brixton Market from being sold off to private equity developers. This Rally was an invitation to the public to join the movement to reclaim Brixton into community ownership.

Since then, the Buy Back Brixton campaign – which was started by by Brixton Traders & Community Association and The Advocacy Academy – successfully submitted a competitive community bid and secured Asset of Community Value (ACV) status for Brixton Village and Market Row from Lambeth Council, giving local traders vital legal ground to fight corporate private equity buyout plans.

In today’s piece, read Simmone’s thoughts on the rally, conversations with organisers, the importance of fighting against the violence of gentrification and the strength of community action.

As Simmone writes: “It wasn’t just a win because we raised the money, though that is a huge achievement in itself, but it also marks a mentality shift of what we can build and achieve together.

Some of the hardest aspects of community organising is not just bringing people together in the first place, but bringing them together around a shared vision of something that can be different. The horizon always comes – and this particular moment felt like Brixton had stepped closer to it.”

Read the full piece: https://shado-mag.com/articles/act/buy-back-brixton-when-a-community-refuses-to-be-sold-off/

📸 Mark Chilvers

10/07/2026

In today’s piece, Ruari Paterson-Achenbach reflects on a series of events they curated at which explored the relationship between anarchist politics and creative practice.

“In anarchism, we have a form of political and social organising which emphasises practice, explicitly thinking about the ways we do things with each other in less hierarchical forms. The creative spaces that open up when making things together, in collaborative music and art-making, might offer generative sites for rehearsing these other social possibilities,” Ruari writes. “Both of these sites, in their most engaged forms, ask: how can we be with each other in new and better ways, in order to make better the very worlds which we exist within.”

🎨 .oh who says: “I focused on collaboration and creativity as a practical tool. These people are using many forms of artmaking to move, using it to both envision and create the future they wish to live in.”

https://shado-mag.com/articles/see/creativity-after-art/

09/07/2026

Sneak preview of the third episode in our Knowledge Chronicles series, where host .bafo speaks with about culture and the revolution.

The Knowledge Chronicles seeks to root conversations in radical community spaces which speak to the topics explored in the episode, and this episode is hosted in in Peckham. Sara and Lola delve into what intersectional feminism truly is, what we can learn from archives and how we can use cultural production as a tool for liberation.

Full episode launching on YouTube next week!

Host: Sara Bafo
Producers: Sara Bafo + +
Director:
Co-Directors: Hannah Robathan + Isabella Pearce
Cameras: .jpg and Graeme Smith
Post production: Campbell Anderson and Graeme Smith

07/07/2026

The latest edition of The Shuffle - a substack by .91 - talks about the legacy of Keir Starmer, who announced his resignation on 22nd June. “It’s important to understand,” writes Tommy, “that Starmer’s legacy as PM is not just that of a wet blanket, but representative of something more sinister.”

Subscribe to read his full essay, plus recommendations of what to listen to, what to learn from and what to groove to ➡️
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🎨 Bella Harter

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