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How Pakistan’s Khwaja Sira and transgender communities are fearing and fighting for their futures

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How Pakistan’s Khwaja Sira and transgender communities are fearing and fighting for their futures

Ayesha Le Breton

Today

Meet the musicians changing the face of who ‘should’ play the guitar

Meet the musicians changing the face of who ‘should’ play the guitar

Naomi Larsson Piñeda

20 Mar

Shorties: this powerful animation commemorates the lives lost in Nigeria’s #EndSARS protests

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This powerful animation commemorates the lives lost in Nigeria’s #EndSARS protests

Riann Phillip & Sophie Zhang

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17 Mar

Their anti-rape performance went viral globally. Now what?

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Their anti-rape performance went viral globally. Now what?

Naomi Larsson Piñeda

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17 Mar

Nadia Whittome: ‘Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget is a slap in the face for Britain’s workers’

Nadia Whittome: ‘Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget is a slap in the face for Britain’s workers’

Nadia Whittome

16 Mar

‘Awaab’s Law’ won’t save Black and brown tenants from malignant social housing

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‘Awaab’s Law’ won’t save Black and brown tenants from malignant social housing

Kinza Hussain

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16 Mar

How protest and resistance in Syria and Lebanon shaped a progressive rap scene

How protest and resistance in Syria and Lebanon shaped a progressive rap scene

Houda Fansa Jawadi

15 Mar

An award-winning media company committed to sharing the perspectives of people of colour from marginalised genders

A new legacy

A collaboration between gal-dem and oestrogeneration, platforming transfeminine writers of colour and their stories

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Nadia Whittome: ‘Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget is a slap in the face for Britain’s workers’

Nadia Whittome: ‘Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget is a slap in the face for Britain’s workers’

Nadia Whittome

16 Mar

How the cost of living crisis is forcing LGBTQ+ people to make impossible choices

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How the cost of living crisis is forcing LGBTQ+ people to make impossible choices

Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin

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07 Mar

‘Eat the rich’: how the workers took on Amazon, and won

‘Eat the rich’: how the workers took on Amazon, and won

Alice Figes

29 Nov

Nadia Whittome: ‘The Tories have made their choice: protect the rich, condemn the rest’

Nadia Whittome: ‘The Tories have made their choice: protect the rich, condemn the rest’

Nadia Whittome

18 Nov

The gal-dem guide to getting involved in mutual aid

The gal-dem guide to getting involved in mutual aid

Simar Deol

17 Nov

‘As disabled people we have been living in a cost of living crisis for years’

‘As disabled people we have been living in a cost of living crisis for years’

Isabelle Jani-Friend

08 Nov

The Cost of Living Crisis

Over the next two weeks and beyond, gal-dem is publishing stories exploring our communities’ experiences during this tumultuous time – and what we can do to collectively work towards a fairer future.

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From gal-dem, this is Our Place Is Here – a collection of personal essays written and spoken by migrant domestic workers living in the UK. These are their stories, in English and Filipino, written in their words.

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How Pakistan’s Khwaja Sira and transgender communities are fearing and fighting for their futures

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How Pakistan’s Khwaja Sira and transgender communities are fearing and fighting for their futures

Ayesha Le Breton

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Today

Their anti-rape performance went viral globally. Now what?

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Their anti-rape performance went viral globally. Now what?

Naomi Larsson Piñeda

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17 Mar

Nadia Whittome: ‘Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget is a slap in the face for Britain’s workers’

Nadia Whittome: ‘Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget is a slap in the face for Britain’s workers’

Nadia Whittome

16 Mar

‘Awaab’s Law’ won’t save Black and brown tenants from malignant social housing

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‘Awaab’s Law’ won’t save Black and brown tenants from malignant social housing

Kinza Hussain

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16 Mar

Open Secrets

Open Secrets is a series from gal-dem and VICE that explores abusive behaviour in the music industry – and how it has been left unchecked for too long.

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Shorties: this powerful animation commemorates the lives lost in Nigeria’s #EndSARS protests

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This powerful animation commemorates the lives lost in Nigeria’s #EndSARS protests

Riann Phillip & Sophie Zhang

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17 Mar

‘I cannot be categorised’: in the words of Audre Lorde

‘I cannot be categorised’: in the words of Audre Lorde

Claudia Tate

15 Mar

Michaela Coel on how mentorship drives your career forward

Michaela Coel on how mentorship drives your career forward

Riann Phillip

13 Mar

Things to do in London this month

Where to find vibes this month

Hélène Selam Rose Kleih

09 Mar

For too long, both climate activism and climate coverage have overlooked the voices and experiences of communities of colour. Our new series looks to change that.

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gal-dem horoscopes: this Aquarius season is all about moving forward

“February is about forward motion and progressing through our dreams”

Marissa Malik

Boohoo’s attempts to appear ethical are empty and damaging – we must keep calling them out

Boohoo’s attempts to appear ethical are empty and damaging – we must keep calling them out

Zainab Mahmood

08 Mar

Wanderthirst: bringing my whole self back home to Barbados

Wanderthirst: bringing my whole self back home to Barbados

Aimée Grant Cumberbatch

24 Feb

How to support Turkiye and Syria earthquake victims

How to support Turkiye and Syria earthquake victims

Riann Phillip

22 Feb

Wanderthirst: returning to Malaysia and my family, I remembered what unconditional love feels like

Wanderthirst: returning to Malaysia and my family, I remembered what unconditional love feels like

Suyin Haynes

19 Jan

gal-dem’s food series celebrating culture, community and culinary joy

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Meet the musicians changing the face of who ‘should’ play the guitar

Meet the musicians changing the face of who ‘should’ play the guitar

Naomi Larsson Piñeda

20 Mar

How protest and resistance in Syria and Lebanon shaped a progressive rap scene

How protest and resistance in Syria and Lebanon shaped a progressive rap scene

Houda Fansa Jawadi

15 Mar

gal-dem selects: February’s new music run-down

gal-dem selects: February’s new music run-down

Charis McGowan

23 Feb

Let’s stop comparing celebrity pregnancies, please

Let’s stop comparing celebrity pregnancies, please

Charis McGowan

14 Feb

Desirability and survival: for some Black women, slimness equals safety

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For some Black women, slimness equals safety

Jessica Wilson, MS., RD.

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11 Mar

Growing up as a Black girl from Pyongyang

Growing up as a Black girl from Pyongyang

Monica Macias

06 Mar

‘A historian, babysitter, sat-nav’: everything I learned as a tour guide in Kyoto

Everything I learned as a tour guide in Kyoto

Florentyna Leow

01 Mar

Against the binary: finding home in my intergenerational queer family

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Against the binary: finding home in my intergenerational queer family

Yas Necati

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28 Feb

Queeries: Should I come off my SSRIs?

“There’s a sense of urgency in your message, and it makes me want to say, give it time”

Aisha Mirza

Forgotten Diasporas

gal-dem’s series exploring histories of movement, survival and diasporic identity

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Young Black men are being jailed over text messages

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Young Black men are being jailed over text messages

Ruchira Sharma

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20 Dec

Inside the online forums where anti-Gypsy, Roma and Traveller sentiment thrives

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Inside the online forums where anti-Gypsy, Roma and Traveller sentiment thrives

Cyrine Sinti

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23 Nov

Revealed: ‘Shocking’ number of asylum seeker infant deaths in Home Office housing

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Revealed: ‘Shocking’ number of asylum seeker infant deaths in Home Office housing

Mirren Gidda & Jessica Purkiss

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27 Oct

The story of Alexander Tekle: a young asylum seeker who died in Britain’s hostile environment

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The story of Alexander Tekle: a young asylum seeker who died in Britain’s hostile environment

Dawn Limbu

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07 Sep

How Nigeria’s Feminist Coalition became a force for change

How Nigeria’s Feminist Coalition became a force for change

Tami Makinde

13 Mar

Meet six change-making groups this International Women’s Day

Meet six change-making groups this International Women’s Day

Riann Phillip

08 Mar

New year, new reasons why I won’t focus on losing weight

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New year, new reasons why I won’t focus on losing weight

Adwoa Darko

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13 Dec

Decoding ‘The African Desperate’: we explore five of the film’s key references

Decoding ‘The African Desperate’: we explore five of the film’s key references

Sabrina Fearon Melville

27 Oct

gal-dem x Tinder

We've partnered with Tinder to explore trust, safety, and joy in dating this spring. Read through for guidance from the stars, perspectives on app-based dating, and a special edition of Queeries.

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