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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

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 🔗

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.”

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

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

10/11/2025

As someone who worked adjacent to Zohran Mamdani’s campaign over the summer, has followed his race, campaign, and recent win closer than most.

Today, she writes about her hopes for the new Mayor-Elect of New York. As she writes: “Is Zohran a one-off, or can his success be replicated? And is New York a weather vane for the direction Democrats need to take to keep winning? (Hopefully yes!)”

https://shado-mag.com/articles/opinion/thats-my-mayor/

10/11/2025

In today’s shado-lite episode, guest host Isabella Kajiwara is joined by black feminist writer and researcher Lola Olufemi in discussion of Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile by Marika Sherwood.

They discuss the importance of remembering Claudia Jones as a communist, acknowledging the exile and persecution she faced due to McCarthyism and fascism. Olufemi highlights efforts Jones’ efforts to bring an analysis of gender and race to Communist parties’ understandings of exploitation, and how Jones harnessed cultural production through Notting Hill Carnival and The West Indian Gazette as modes of consciousness-building and resistance.

This episode is part of a mini-series inspired by our latest shado book club season: To Be Loved, Is To Be Remembered: Archiving For Liberation. We explored titles from ‘s Radical Black Women collection, curated in collaboration with the Black Cultural Archives to redress erasures of Black British and Black Transnational Feminist histories.

Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer, researcher and Associate Lecturer based in the design school at University Arts London. Her work focuses on the utility of the political imagination in the textual and visual cultures of radical movements, examining the role cultural production plays in materialist resistance and collective conceptualisations of humanity.

07/11/2025

from the west bank to barcelona, Air Bnb has long been involved in projects of cultural erasure. In today’s piece, writes about the role of Air Bnb, short-term lets and holiday homes in Wales, and how this cannot be understood without the context of British attempts at the cultural erasure of Welsh language.

“Streets becoming empty, or neighbours disappearing, as has already happened to my grandparents, is a sign of society that is failing its people. My neighbours were a big part of my childhood and we knew pretty much everyone by name. Families shared lifts to and from school or childcare and supported each other if needed, adults looked out for an elderly resident who lived alone and developed dementia. It wasn’t perfect by any means but there was a community who supported each other, and those are currently at risk or already destroyed by Airbnb, second homes and other holiday lets.”

🎨 who says: “Two contrasting buildings stand next to each other in a Welsh seaside village, on the left is an Airbnb and on the right is a home. The Airbnb is made of pixels, designed to look like the app/website, with ‘squircle’ windows, brand colours, and decorative variations of the logo making up front-garden railings and plant pot designs. The home is made of stone, the lights are on and wildlife is welcome, the red door has a love spoon door knocker and a dragon stain glass window above it, it’s called Cwtch, the Welsh word for a cuddle. The Airbnb is called Welsh Not, and the house number is 1847 in direct reference to the article, and the Blue Book is being thrown in the swbriel (rubbish) by an elderly couple just outside. The couple are adorned in items referencing other places mentioned in the article: a keffiyeh for Occupied West Bank, a water gun for Barcelona. The dominance of this company is shown by the Airbnb pixelating into the Cwtch home, and the protesting of the wildlife.”

https://shado-mag.com/articles/opinion/your-airbnb-used-to-be-my-home/

06/11/2025

✨ BOOK GIVEAWAY ✨
Inspired by our Decolonising Education toolkit we released back in August as part of our Radical Futures series, we’ve teamed up with to give away a book bundle exploring care, liberation and abolition.

📚The bundle includes:

🌱 We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Liberation — Edited by Maya Schenwar & Kim Wilson
An inspiring anthology on the intersections of caregiving and abolition — from personal stories to policy analysis to activist chronicles. Revealing the complex tapestry of ways people put theory into practice in their daily lives and how abolition is essential to any kind of parenting justice.

🔥 Prisons Must Fall — by Jane Ball & Mariame Kaba, illustrated by Olly Costello

A bold vision of a world beyond prisons, rooted in care, justice, and community — paired with stunning, vibrant artwork. Perfect for parents, teachers and librarians looking for books on the prison industrial complex and prison reform, kids who are interested in fairness and social justice, and readers who love exceptional and sophisticated illustration.

✨Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Child Supremacy - by Madeline Lane McKinley

A revolutionary feminist case for child liberation, helping us imagine ways to build insurgent, collective forms of care. McKinley examines the history of childhood as a system of private property in capitalism, traces the possibilities of revolutionary mothering, critiques the parents’ rights movement and imagines what education might look like outside schools.

HOW TO ENTER:
1️⃣Follow .mag and
2️⃣Like this post & tag a friend in the comments 💬
✨Bonus entry: Share our Decolonising Education Toolkit post* (pinned on our profile) to your story and tag us both!

🗓️ Winner announced: Thurs 13th Nov
One winner will receive all three books. We’ll contact them via DM + announce on our stories.

03/11/2025

A few months ago, sat down with .a.mmmm to talk about - an architecture studio committed to protecting at-risk built heritage across the Somali Peninsular. RAAD RAAC, Jabir says, “was born out of a deep concern over ongoing loss from intersecting crises.”

“Although we’re from different parts of Africa, mine and Jabir’s homelands tell similar stories,” Lillie writes. “Our cultures have been colonised multiple times over, and our landscapes speak where there are gaps. We are both trying to listen to the whispers of the elders who remember.

We have our ear to the ground, our hands in the Earth, and we’re looking into the future. We share the feeling of attempting to travel through time to revive, restore and re-Indigenise.”

https://shado-mag.com/articles/see/raad-raac-is-leaving-a-trace/

29/10/2025

📣 shado x presents: What is the difference between colonialism and imperialism? A teach-in with 🇵🇸

11th November, online, 7-8.30pm UK time.

This online teach in will be led by EEFP and will guide us through what imperialism is, how it differs from colonialism, historical and current global examples and how we can work to dismantle it.

The aims of the session are to:
📚Provide greater access to knowledge around imperialism
🚨Provide a space for political education embedded in methodology of shared + communal learning
🌎Provide a safe, non-judgemental space for learning

The teach in will involve a talk by Joycelyn followed by questions and discussion. All levels of knowledge are welcome.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-is-the-difference-between-colonialism-and-imperialism-tickets-1900663027279?aff=oddtdtcreator

28/10/2025

Today’s piece by is all about decolonising desire and the power of the erotic in imaginative worldbuilding. As they write: “The project of colonialism committed an assault on desire that set the stage for the suffocating of curiosity. We are living within the belly of this frustrating legacy. Desire is knowing that there is more. It is not just about sexual want. It is a pull towards what is truthful, what is freeing and what colours our lives with joy. For Indigenous communities in the Global South, desire has always been a threat to the powers of hegemony.

If a people are connected to the roots of their desire, they are also connected to their innate power. You cannot manipulate or steal from a society built on sacred desire (a form of longing understood not as individual possession but as a collective, reciprocal force that binds people to each other, to the land, and to the divine). You cannot poke holes in the collective consciousness of a people who are in deep conversation with their divinity and their knowing.“

Sisanda invokes the wisdom of Audre Lorde and María Lugones, soundtracked to ‘Raven’ by 🐦‍⬛

🎨 who says: “A person looking out towards nature, rediscovering the organic pull of desire.”

https://shado-mag.com/articles/decolonising-desire-on-queerness-erotics-and-the-ghosts-of-empire/

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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.