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09/12/2025

Workers across all major tech companies have been mobilising since pre-pandemic against their employers profiting from the Israeli regime.

Along with BDS campaigners, they have seen some serious wins through inside pressure, consumer boycotts and investigative journalism - read the full piece on .mag now.

In today’s article .fmedina and .lynn speak with Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada about her new album, how her...
02/12/2025

In today’s article .fmedina and .lynn speak with Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada about her new album, how her roots influence her songwriting, and how she aims to confront realities Mexican society often tries to forget. 

Santiago and Lynn say, “Rooted in jazz, folk, and Latin rhythms, Silvana has become one of the defining singer-songwriters of her generation. Her ability to blend tradition with the avant-garde, together with her voice, captivating as it is ethereal, infuses her music with a sense of vulnerability that reaches deep into the listener.”

Illustration who says  “This illustration captures Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada channelling her powerful music. It surrounds her with panels that reflect her core narratives: the pain of personal loss, the enduring beauty of her Veracruz roots, and the harsh realities of Mexico’s social crises. A voice for her generation, Estrada fuses the intimate with the political, turning loss into purpose and using her art as a fierce call to remember.”

https://shado-mag.com/articles/hear/silvana-estrada-and-the-roads-that-lead-home/

SHADO MAG IS HIRING! ✨ We’re looking for a culture editor to write 2 articles per month*, on anything from arts, politic...
28/11/2025

SHADO MAG IS HIRING! ✨

We’re looking for a culture editor to write 2 articles per month*, on anything from arts, politics, tv, film, to dating, trends, and pop commentary - supported through lived experience storytelling.

Things we’d love to see:
• hot takes
• opinions you don’t see elsewhere
• personal reflections that help start wider conversations

If you are interested in this role - please send a bio & writing or video sample to [email protected] by 12TH DECEMBER.

*each for a fee of £150 per article.

What is the Venn diagram overlap between hardened movement organisers and readers of sultry, bodice-ripping fiction? Thi...
28/11/2025

What is the Venn diagram overlap between hardened movement organisers and readers of sultry, bodice-ripping fiction? 

This is a question that had never previously crossed mind, but now, dear reader, Ning has the answer.

On today’s article Ning sits down with  Keya Chatterjee  to discuss her latest book, The Revolution Will Not Be Rated G, climate-fantasy romp set in an authoritarian future America divided into the haves and have-nots, and revolving around the revolutionary Aria and unexpected defector Neil.

Ning says, “When I first read the blurb, I struggled to imagine Bill McKibben on his couch flipping through pages of brewing romantic and sexual tension. There’s something about movement work that seems deeply serious, mostly because it is, frankly, deathly serious for many people. But there isn’t a moratorium on playfulness when you are neck-deep in fighting for a better future – see the frogs that descended on Portland to resist the National Guard, or politicians like Chi Ossé calling Andrew Cuomo the “glizzy goblin former governor” in a video. Fun is contagious. 

It also has the effect of bringing in people who otherwise wouldn’t find themselves persuaded to engage. There’s a reason why, famously, the war is fought in hearts and minds. By reaching out to an audience in search of a steamy read, an audience in search of fun, we effectively guerilla-garden seeds of change in unexpected environments.”

Illustration by Christina Atik  who says, “Revolutions are so electric and tense and chaotic, in the most beautiful and intense ways. I’ve seen so many high-intensity connections happen on the streets, I wanted to reflect a sliver of that intensity in this drawing.

https://shado-mag.com/articles/do/revolutionary-wet-dreams/

Today’s piece is written in solidarity with as six prisoners – Amu Gib, Qesser Zuhrah, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, T Hoxha ...
26/11/2025

Today’s piece is written in solidarity with as six prisoners – Amu Gib, Qesser Zuhrah, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, T Hoxha and Kamran Ahmed – are on a collective hunger strike to demand both justice and freedom for Palestine solidarity protestors and an end to the UK operations of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.

The writer views the hunger strike as abolitionist praxis: it doesn’t just challenge those locked up in UK prisons for Palestinian solidarity, but also calls out the global system of imprisonment linking British jails to occupation-run prisons in Palestine. And it asks those of us living freely to pay attention and take action.

“Incarceration inflicts civil and social death,” the piece reads. “It sunders people from community and society, and from the right to participate fully in the shaping of both. Or rather, it attempts to. But the courage and imagination of prisoners, and the love and solidarity of their communities outside, can never quite be caged.

When we in the UK stand outside prisons chanting ‘One body, one fight, we support the hunger strike’, with the strikers inside hearing our voices through the concrete, we mean it, we feel it: the walls dividing us from our friends and comrades are paltry, mean things, shuddering in the face of their commitment and their strength.”

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https://shado-mag.com/articles/do/one-body-one-fight-the-hunger-strike-as-abolitionist-praxis/

Have you been keeping up with our substack? Get fresh takes on culture, activism and the mess of capitalism, served up b...
25/11/2025

Have you been keeping up with our substack?

Get fresh takes on culture, activism and the mess of capitalism, served up bi-weekly by editor .91 in ‘the shuffle.’

Today we’re visiting Tommy’s latest post on a Tale of Two New Yorks & the big apple’s contradictions.

Read more & subscribe via link in bio 🔗

In today’s article shado’s editor unpacks how grassroots organisers are making Israel’s tech dependency a liability. Sp...
21/11/2025

In today’s article shado’s editor unpacks how grassroots organisers are making Israel’s tech dependency a liability. Speaking with Bella, coordinator of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) tech campaigns Zoe reveals how tech is the foundation of Israel’s apartheid economy. In the article Zoe and Bella discuss how workers are resisting it and explore how else we can use boycotting and organising as a tool to disrupt this.

Zoe says, “Big Tech feels untouchable because it wants us to not pay attention, they control the algorithms that control how we perceive the crisis. Read independent media, boycott Microsoft games, organise in your workplace and local government and pay attention to the wins. The precedent has been set.”

Illustration by Walker Gawande who says, “I chose to depict this article using classic cctv cameras, given that they are a well-known symbol of surveillance. I superimposed onto these cameras some of the logos of the tech companies which have collaborated with the Israeli government to evoke their partnership.”

19/11/2025

How media scapegoating works 🗞️🎥

They manufacture crisis, then tell you who to fear 🚨 migrants today, someone else tomorrow.

Filmed on Cable Street, a London site where in 1936 communities refused to be divided by fascist fear. The location echoes the message of this video: scapegoating isn’t new - it’s a repeated tactic to turn neighbours into enemies and distract from the real causes of inequality. At Cable Street, people resisted that tactic together.

This video honours the communities who keep the UK alive, even when media narratives try to erase them. It’s a reminder that while the far right organises fear, we can organise hope, care and resistance 🤝 just as people did on this street generations ago.

Soundtrack: ‘Pathos’ by Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi

This video is part of a digital commission by created in collaboration with .mag and

On October 16th 2025, in Coca, Ecuador, 60 Indigenous activists and leaders started their journey of 3000km, navigating ...
19/11/2025

On October 16th 2025, in Coca, Ecuador, 60 Indigenous activists and leaders started their journey of 3000km, navigating towards COP30 in Belém. Their boat, named the Yaku Mama Amazon Flotilla .flotilla is an initiative to make their collective journey, as well as their presence in the international climate negotiations in Belém known and visible.

In today’s article French-Peruvian journalist, speaks with a Mayan Xi’che Indigenous journalist from Guatemala and part of the flotilla coordination team to find out more about the flotilla’s demands, the organising that has been taking place by activists outside of COP and the renewed strategy for visibility, awareness and collective political action of Indigenous actors in global stages.

“Our demands are clear,” Lucia tells me. “There cannot be a climate negotiation without Indigenous people, as a starting point. Indigenous people’s knowledge is central to bring alternatives to the climate crisis and to the destruction of biodiversity.”

Illustration by who says : “The illustration shows the Yaku Mama Flotilla journeying along the Amazon river towards Belem. To the right is dense green forest and in the foreground is a group of the Indigenous people on board the flotilla. The illustration includes the phrase: there cannot be climate negotiations without Indigenous people.”

https://shado-mag.com/articles/act/from-the-andes-to-the-amazon-the-yaku-mama-flotillas-journey-to-cop30/

15/11/2025

In today’s episode, author A.S. Francis is joined by guest host Isabella Kajiwara for a powerful conversation on the life and legacy of Gerlin Bean - otherwise known as “Mother of the Movement.”

Together, they explore Bean’s vital contributions to youth work, Black Power politics, gay liberation and her deeply relational approach to leadership. Bean’s efforts in intergenerational organising and transnational activism are also highlighted, while unpacking the challenges of documenting her legacy and the process behind writing her story.

This episode is part of a mini-series inspired by our latest shado bookclub season: To Be Loved, Is To Be Remembered: Archiving for Liberation. We explored titles from Lawrence Wishart Books’ Radical Black Women collection, curated in collaboration with the Black Cultural Archives to redress erasures of Black British and Black Transnational Feminist Histories.

A.S. Francis is a PhD researcher examining women’s involvement in Britain’s Black radical organisations during the 1960s-1980s and the development of a Black women’s movement. Francis also works in production at Tate Modern, serves as a consultant to the Young Historians Project, and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the History Matters Journal.

Listen to the full podcast now via ‘Shado-lite’ on your preferred streaming platform 🔗

In today’s article Canada based writer and organiser, speaks with with , a world-renowned sports journalist and sports...
12/11/2025

In today’s article Canada based writer and organiser, speaks with with , a world-renowned sports journalist and sports law expert to better understand the politics, repression and resistance in the football world and to address the impact of sportwashing in and Israeli context.

As club football ramps up and the Men’s World Cup comes closer next summer, Rahul urges fans, who to ensure that football is on the right side of history and that the Beautiful Game belongs to all of us, especially Palestinians.

Rahul says, “Modern-day football has increasingly become a vehicle to advance capitalist and political interests, as investigations have revealed how tournament hosting rights are rigged to conceal human rights violations and authoritarian regimes purchase football clubs. The ‘Beautiful Game’ reached the depths of its ugliness during the last two years as footballing authorities have failed to act on Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Yet while the powerholders have remained silent and complicit, fans around the world have demonstrated immense levels of solidarity with Palestinians.”

🎨

https://shado-mag.com/articles/opinion/show-israel-the-red-card-football-stands-against-genocide/

Have you been keeping up with our Substack? Get fresh takes on culture, activism, and the mess of capitalism, served up ...
11/11/2025

Have you been keeping up with our Substack?

Get fresh takes on culture, activism, and the mess of capitalism, served up bi-weekly by editor .91 in ‘the shuffle.’

Today we’re revisiting Tommy’s post from this week:
➡️ Gooning and what it says about the world we have created
➡️ How jungle / drum & bass ended up in so many video games
➡️ The bakery chain Gail’s, and how its ruthless model of expansion alienates its workers

Read more & subscribe: https://open.substack.com/pub/shufflebyshado/p/caves-and-carousels?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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See. Hear. Act. Do.

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.