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Transgender healthcare in the UK is in crisis and people of colour are at the sharpest end
  • longreads
  • politics
  • 25 Oct

Transgender healthcare in the UK is in crisis and people of colour are at the sharpest end

  • SJ Zhang
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Afro Answers: what do you mean I can’t use oils or butters? And what you need to know about hair loss
  • afro answers
  • life
  • 24 Oct

Afro Answers: what do you mean I can’t use oils or butters? And what you need to know…

  • Ebuni Ajiduah
How Afghan musicians are fighting for their heritage
  • music
  • 22 Oct

How Afghan musicians are fighting for their heritage

  • Safi Bugel
Seven anti-capitalist films to watch after ‘Squid Game’
  • culture
  • 22 Oct

Seven anti-capitalist films to watch after ‘Squid Game’

  • Roisin Tapponi
What are all the gal-dem cover photographers up to now?
  • culture
  • 21 Oct

What are all the gal-dem cover photographers up to now?

  • Precious Adesina
Get Up, Stand Up! brings Bob Marley’s complex life to stage in electrifying colour
  • culture
  • 21 Oct

Get Up, Stand Up! brings Bob Marley’s complex life to stage in electrifying colour

  • Moya Lothian McLean
For low-income students of colour, scoring university housing is a mission in itself
  • politics
  • 21 Oct

For low-income students of colour, scoring university housing is a mission in itself

  • Zarah Ali

Welcome to a week-long takeover with all things Kelis, as the legendary artist guest edits our site with some of her favourite things.

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

gal-dem horoscopes: What comes back isn’t always meant to be kept this Libra season

"As we enter the colder season, deep unearthing energies will be pulling us into hibernation. Use this opportunity wisely."

  • Marissa Malik
Seven anti-capitalist films to watch after ‘Squid Game’
  • culture
  • 22 Oct

Seven anti-capitalist films to watch after ‘Squid Game’

  • Roisin Tapponi
What are all the gal-dem cover photographers up to now?
  • culture
  • 21 Oct

What are all the gal-dem cover photographers up to now?

  • Precious Adesina
Get Up, Stand Up! brings Bob Marley’s complex life to stage in electrifying colour
  • culture
  • 21 Oct

Get Up, Stand Up! brings Bob Marley’s complex life to stage in electrifying colour

  • Moya Lothian McLean
Bucket baths, bust down shoes and belly grumbles: Empress & Aniya is Candice Carty-Williams’ teens revisited
  • culture
  • 18 Oct

Bucket baths, bust down shoes and belly grumbles: Empress & Aniya is Candice Carty-Williams’ teens revisited

  • Liv Francis-Cornibert
I wish people would stop making me feel guilty for not enjoying my pregnancy
  • first person
  • 19 Oct

I wish people would stop making me feel guilty for not enjoying my pregnancy

  • Yousra Imran
How the legacy of Hong Kong’s Bleak House Books will live on
  • first person
  • 15 Oct

How the legacy of Hong Kong’s Bleak House Books will live on

  • Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
Through her bold, unapologetic hair, Kelis helped me discover who I am
  • first person
  • kelis guest edit
  • 15 Oct

Through her bold, unapologetic hair, Kelis helped me discover who I am

  • Haaniyah Angus
I lived in a Kalasha village, amongst a fast disappearing community in Pakistan
  • first person
  • 06 Oct

I lived in a Kalasha village, amongst a fast disappearing community in Pakistan

  • Rahma Khan

Forgotten Diasporas

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

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Transgender healthcare in the UK is in crisis and people of colour are at the sharpest end
  • longreads
  • politics
  • 25 Oct

Transgender healthcare in the UK is in crisis and people of colour are at the sharpest end

  • SJ Zhang
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For low-income students of colour, scoring university housing is a mission in itself
  • politics
  • 21 Oct

For low-income students of colour, scoring university housing is a mission in itself

  • Zarah Ali
What sort of protest is necessary to fight the climate crisis?
  • it's happening now
  • politics
  • 18 Oct

What sort of protest is necessary to fight the climate crisis?

  • Diyora Shadijanova
Why everything you thought about ‘slave names’ could be wrong
  • politics
  • 08 Oct

Why everything you thought about ‘slave names’ could be wrong

  • Moya Lothian McLean

What happened to Shukri Abdi?

How the death of a 12-year-old refugee became a contested cause.

  • Nimo Omer
Afro Answers: what do you mean I can’t use oils or butters? And what you need to know about hair loss
  • afro answers
  • life
  • 24 Oct

Afro Answers: what do you mean I can’t use oils or butters? And what you need to know…

  • Ebuni Ajiduah
Empowering the next generation of makeup artists: M·A·C’s Tomorrow’s Artist
  • gal-dem
  • life
  • 19 Oct

Empowering the next generation of makeup artists: M·A·C’s Tomorrow’s Artist

  • Shanice Dover
Wanderthirst: my staycation in Bradford made me really appreciate its unique personality
  • life
  • wanderthirst
  • 16 Oct

Wanderthirst: my staycation in Bradford made me really appreciate its unique personality

  • Aisling Serrant
Speaking to the brains behind in.hair.itance, Kelis’ favourite historical hair inspo page
  • kelis guest edit
  • life
  • 14 Oct

Speaking to the brains behind in.hair.itance, Kelis’ favourite historical hair inspo page

  • Zainab Kwaw-Swanzy

gal-dem’s food series celebrating culture, community and culinary joy over the last year

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How Afghan musicians are fighting for their heritage
  • music
  • 22 Oct

How Afghan musicians are fighting for their heritage

  • Safi Bugel
Five on it: PinkPantheress is a shining ‘new nostalgic’ star
  • five on it
  • music
  • 15 Oct

Five on it: PinkPantheress is a shining ‘new nostalgic’ star

  • Kayleigh Watson
The Parables of a Beloved Writer: Kelis on Octavia Butler and the beauty of sci-fi
  • culture
  • kelis guest edit
  • 13 Oct

The Parables of a Beloved Writer: Kelis on Octavia Butler and the beauty of sci-fi

  • Sofia Akel
A love letter to ‘Flesh Tone’, the Kelis album that fortifies me when I need it
  • kelis guest edit
  • music
  • 12 Oct

A love letter to ‘Flesh Tone’, the Kelis album that fortifies me when I need it

  • Grace Medford
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Queeries: How can I stay hopeful as the world burns?

“Grief isn’t meant to be held inside the body. Grief needs to return to the Earth”

  • Aisha Mirza
Why messy afterparties feel like resistance to a work-obsessed society
  • first person
  • 28 Jun

Why messy afterparties feel like resistance to a work-obsessed society

  • Ruchira Sharma
Queeries: what’s with all this post-lockdown anxiety?
  • life
  • queeries
  • 23 Apr

Queeries: what’s with all this post-lockdown anxiety?

  • Aisha Mirza
Over the last year in lockdown, smell and nostalgia are more connected than ever
  • life
  • 10 Apr

Over the last year in lockdown, smell and nostalgia are more connected than ever

  • Eilidh Akilade
Relearning to speak to my elders in lockdown
  • first person
  • 01 Apr

Relearning to speak to my elders in lockdown

  • Nali Simukulwa
Opera helped me process my father’s death during the pandemic
  • first person
  • 25 Mar

Opera helped me process my father’s death during the pandemic

  • Ella Alalade
A joyful celebration of Britain’s Chinese takeaways
  • life
  • 24 Mar

A joyful celebration of Britain’s Chinese takeaways

  • Angela Hui

A Year of the Pandemic

Articles telling the story of the pandemic one year since lockdown began.
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What happened to Shukri Abdi?
  • investigations
  • politics
  • 05 May

What happened to Shukri Abdi?

  • Nimo Omer
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‘If they sound like a man, hang up’ – how transphobia became rife in the gender-based violence sector
  • investigations
  • politics
  • 01 Feb

‘If they sound like a man, hang up’ – how transphobia became rife in the gender-based violence sector

  • Moya Lothian McLean
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Under lockdown Manchester’s Black students have become suspects
  • investigations
  • 18 Nov

Under lockdown Manchester’s Black students have become suspects

  • Emma Blake Morsi
The messy story of the influencer who raised £48,000 for victims of the Sri Lanka Easter bombings
  • investigations
  • politics
  • 03 Nov

The messy story of the influencer who raised £48,000 for victims of the Sri Lanka Easter bombings

  • Donya Jeyabalasingham
Empowering the next generation of makeup artists: M·A·C’s Tomorrow’s Artist
  • gal-dem
  • life
  • 19 Oct

Empowering the next generation of makeup artists: M·A·C’s Tomorrow’s Artist

  • Shanice Dover
How technology is making Black hair styling more accessible
  • first person
  • 03 Sep

How technology is making Black hair styling more accessible

  • Zainab Kwaw-Swanzy
Original Selecta: Aartthie Mahakuperan on stepping into your own style
  • life
  • 26 Aug

Original Selecta: Aartthie Mahakuperan on stepping into your own style

  • Adwoa Darko
‘It’s definitely therapy’: finding home and community in sport
  • life
  • 02 Jul

‘It’s definitely therapy’: finding home and community in sport

  • Niellah Arboine

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