Hosted by Carla Flores, shado in focus is shado’s new weekly audio series. We’ll take one article per episode from shado’s archive, for you to listen on the go.
In this collection we've handpicked some of our favourite pieces, ranging from investigative exposés to interviews and commentary on global issues, all from those with lived experience.
shado in focus will be a place for finding hope and inspiration, while also providing accessible introductions to some of the biggest issues of our time.
Graphic: Naomi Gennery @nn.aa.ii
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Hosted by Carla Flores, shado in focus is shado’s new weekly audio series. We’ll take one article per episode from shado’s archive, for you to listen on the go.
In this collection we've handpicked some of our favourite pieces, ranging from investigative exposés to interviews and commentary on global issues, all from those with lived experience.
shado in focus will be a place for finding hope and inspiration, while also providing accessible introductions to some of the biggest issues of our time.
Graphic: Naomi Gennery @nn.aa.ii
Find out more at shado-mag.com @shado.mag
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Addis Fouché and is titled 6 self-love ideas to remember from the late Black feminist, bell hooks
Addis Fouché is a 29 year old Black queer woman, native New Yorker, distance runner, commercial model, adult performer, freelance writer, startup founder, and public speaker. As a multi-hyphenate, Addis' mission is to create the content that she wishes she could have seen at a younger age: which de-stigmatizes topics like sex, sobriety, race, sexuality, and gender. She doesn't shy away from exploring any subject within the realm of taboo topics, in fact she dives head first into dissecting why we are the way we are. Follow Addis on Instagram @addisfouche
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Addis Fouché and is titled How I Navigate Dating with Herpes
Addis Fouché is a 29 year old Black queer woman, native New Yorker, distance runner, commercial model, adult performer, freelance writer, startup founder, and public speaker. As a multi-hyphenate, Addis' mission is to create the content that she wishes she could have seen at a younger age: which de-stigmatizes topics like sex, sobriety, race, sexuality, and gender. She doesn't shy away from exploring any subject within the realm of taboo topics, in fact she dives head first into dissecting why we are the way we are. Follow Addis on Instagram @addisfouche
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Addis Fouché and is titled A case in defence of the side chick
Addis Fouché is a 29 year old Black queer woman, native New Yorker, distance runner, commercial model, adult performer, freelance writer, startup founder, and public speaker. As a multi-hyphenate, Addis' mission is to create the content that she wishes she could have seen at a younger age: which de-stigmatizes topics like sex, sobriety, race, sexuality, and gender. She doesn't shy away from exploring any subject within the realm of taboo topics, in fact she dives head first into dissecting why we are the way we are. Follow Addis on Instagram @addisfouche
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Addis Fouché and is titled Why I stopped faking orgasms, especially with men.
Addis Fouché is a 29 year old Black queer woman, native New Yorker, distance runner, commercial model, adult performer, freelance writer, startup founder, and public speaker. As a multi-hyphenate, Addis' mission is to create the content that she wishes she could have seen at a younger age: which de-stigmatizes topics like sex, sobriety, race, sexuality, and gender. She doesn't shy away from exploring any subject within the realm of taboo topics, in fact she dives head first into dissecting why we are the way we are. Follow Addis on Instagram @addisfouche
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Addis Fouché and is titled Understanding consent through sex work as a rape survivor.
Addis Fouché is a 29 year old Black queer woman, native New Yorker, distance runner, commercial model, adult performer, freelance writer, startup founder, and public speaker. As a multi-hyphenate, Addis' mission is to create the content that she wishes she could have seen at a younger age: which de-stigmatizes topics like sex, sobriety, race, sexuality, and gender. She doesn't shy away from exploring any subject within the realm of taboo topics, in fact she dives head first into dissecting why we are the way we are. Follow Addis on Instagram @addisfouche
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Addis Fouché and is titled It’s Complicated: Dating as a Sex Worker
Addis Fouché is a 29 year old Black queer woman, native New Yorker, distance runner, commercial model, adult performer, freelance writer, startup founder, and public speaker. As a multi-hyphenate, Addis' mission is to create the content that she wishes she could have seen at a younger age: which de-stigmatizes topics like sex, sobriety, race, sexuality, and gender. She doesn't shy away from exploring any subject within the realm of taboo topics, in fact she dives head first into dissecting why we are the way we are. Follow Addis on Instagram @addisfouche
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Addis Fouché and is titled The life lessons that I discovered from being a whore.
Addis Fouché is a 29 year old Black queer woman, native New Yorker, distance runner, commercial model, adult performer, freelance writer, startup founder, and public speaker. As a multi-hyphenate, Addis' mission is to create the content that she wishes she could have seen at a younger age: which de-stigmatizes topics like sex, sobriety, race, sexuality, and gender. She doesn't shy away from exploring any subject within the realm of taboo topics, in fact she dives head first into dissecting why we are the way we are. Follow Addis on Instagram @addisfouche
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Luisa De la Concha Montes and reminds us of the power of Resistance amongst the threat of demolition
Luisa De la Concha Montes is a visual artist, photographer and writer born and raised in Mexico City. She moved to the United Kingdom in 2017 and now resides in London. She holds an MA from the University of Sussex in Photography. Her work attempts to bring shapeless states, such as grief, diaspora, identity and memory into a physical form through documentary photography, digital explorations and visual poetry. Instagram: @erst.while Twitter: @L_D_C_M Website: https://iiconclash.wordpress.com/
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Aileen Angsutorn Lees and teaches us How the language and ideals of white environmentalism reinforce fascist narratives.
Aileen (she/her) is a writer, photographer and activist based in Scotland. Passionate about dismantling narratives of dominating and extracting nature, she set up the project Decolonising The Outdoors and organises community events @decolonisingtheoutdoors
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi and describes his Reflections on motherhood as a revered singular category with no equal
Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi (he/him) is a Sociology PhD candidate at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on the intersectional politics of queer activism and feminism in Nigeria, along with principles of postcolonial and Black queer feminist theory. He analyses the cultural and socio-political dimensions of various subjects, from mainstream pop-culture, politics, art to academic debates.
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Welcome back! Today's article in focus is brought to us by Simmone Ahiaku and speaks On drill as a periscope with Adèle Oliver, author of Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill.
Simmone is a climate justice campaigner, writer and educator who has contributed to environmental, social and cultural work in Bristol, London and across the UK. Simmone has worked on air pollution, divestment and direct action campaigns. She currently uses facilitated workshops to explore climate colonialism and examples of climate resistance and movements from the past and present day. Simmone is an astrology enthusiast - she's an aries sun, moon and Scorpio rising. Simmone loves music, hates capitalism and likes looking at the bright side of things!
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Simmone has curated an amazing list of resources here so please head over to the online article, and scroll down to the What can you do? section to check that out. It recommendations for getting into drill music, podcasts, authors, artists, pieces of writing, and organisations you can follow.
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Maedbh Pierce and speaks on how Vaginismus is more than a pelvic tensing
Currently studying an MA in Journalism, Media and Globalisation (Charles University, Prague), Maedbh Pierce (she/her) is an English and Philosophy graduate (UCD, Dublin) and freelance writer. To date, her writing explores and celebrates queer identity, life and culture. Amongst others, her work has been featured in Material Queer, COVEN BERLIN, Unicorn Magazine, Nonchalant London, and The Single Supplement.
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Larissa Kennedy and speaks on how Leah Cowan explores the realities of, and possibilities for, British feminism.
Larissa Kennedy is a writer, movement griot/jali (storyteller), and community organiser from South London with roots in Jamaica, Barbados, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. She has a BA in Politics, International Studies and Hispanic Studies from the University of Warwick, where her research focused on historicising climate justice in the Anglophone and Hispanophone Caribbean. During her time as an undergraduate, Larissa was formerly President of the National Union of Students, and of Students Organising for Sustainability. She also lived and organised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile. For her Master’s degree, Larissa is studying Global Affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing. In her organising, Larissa has been part of challenging structural injustice, and building collective power at all levels - from the grassroots to the UN. Larissa is founding chair of TALAWA, a Black-led collective of racialised students and young people focused on political education and transformative action at the nexus of Black feminism, climate justice and liberated education. At shado, Larissa is a writer, editor, and co-host of the shado-lite podcast which discusses a number of the world’s biggest global injustices, supporting our community to move from apathy and overwhelm to collective action and hopeful pathways forward.
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi and describes How Khalid Albaih navigates the role of art in political resistance in Sudan
Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi (he/him) is a Sociology PhD candidate at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on the intersectional politics of queer activism and feminism in Nigeria, along with principles of postcolonial and Black queer feminist theory. He analyses the cultural and socio-political dimensions of various subjects, from mainstream pop-culture, politics, art to academic debates.
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Samara Almonte and is an essay On preserving Indigenous identity and cultural survival within diasporic realities.
Samara Almonte is part of the Michoacan diaspora, raised between the lakes and tierra caliente regions of Michoacan and occupied Coast Salish territory or the Pacific Northwest Coast. Samara identifies as a P’urhepecha descendant reconnecting with her ancestors, which has greatly influenced her work as storyteller and urban planner. She grounds her work in a decolonial framework that uplifts Indigenous self-determination. Samara holds a B.A in Urban Planning and Sustainability Development, with a specialization in Environmental Justice and Education, from Western Washington University. Outside of her professional life, Samara is the creator and host of the podcast Raíces Verdes (Green Roots), a platform dedicated to validating, archiving and sharing the experiences of racialized peoples reconnecting with their “green roots”. Green roots are defined as our ancestral connection to the earth that embodies our relationships with all living and spiritual beings. To learn more about the podcast visit nuestrasraicesverdes.com.
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Ella Sinclair and describes the hidden experiences of women of colour who stammer.
Ella is a freelance journalist based in London focusing on race, racism, politics and social justice. She has written for gal-dem, The Lead, The Voice, The Guardian and Cosmopolitan. Find her on Twitter @ella_clair.
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Tony Cobb, and describes the Extreme heat and human rights violations in Florida’s prisons.
Tony Cobb is an inside prison journalist based in Florida's Everglades Correctional Institution. He reports on prison conditions and writes about prison reform through personal essays. He has written for Prism, Scalawag, and the Prison Journalism Project.
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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Samara Almonte, and describes her experience of empowerment through reconnecting to the women in her family.
Samara Almonte is part of the Michoacan diaspora, raised between the lakes and tierra caliente regions of Michoacan and occupied Coast Salish territory or the Pacific Northwest Coast. Samara identifies as a P’urhepecha descendant reconnecting with her ancestors, which has greatly influenced her work as storyteller and urban planner. She grounds her work in a decolonial framework that uplifts Indigenous self-determination. Samara holds a B.A in Urban Planning and Sustainability Development, with a specialization in Environmental Justice and Education, from Western Washington University. Outside of her professional life, Samara is the creator and host of the podcast Raíces Verdes (Green Roots), a platform dedicated to validating, archiving and sharing the experiences of racialized peoples reconnecting with their “green roots”. Green roots are defined as our ancestral connection to the earth that embodies our relationships with all living and spiritual beings. To learn more about the podcast visit nuestrasraicesverdes.com
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Welcome back! Today's article in focus is brought to us by Simmone Ahiaku and tells A reality of love, loss and gentrification in Brixton.
Simmone is a climate justice campaigner, writer and educator who has contributed to environmental, social and cultural work in Bristol, London and across the UK. Simmone has worked on air pollution, divestment and direct action campaigns. She currently uses facilitated workshops to explore climate colonialism and examples of climate resistance and movements from the past and present day. Simmone is an astrology enthusiast - she's an aries sun, moon and Scorpio rising. Simmone loves music, hates capitalism and likes looking at the bright side of things!
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Simmone has curated an amazing list of resources here so please head over to the online article, and scroll down to the What can you do? section to check that out. It includes articles, films, documentaries, places to visit, songs to listen to, and even her most recommended restaurants in Brixton, for you to save to your maps and take your friends or loved ones to.
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Welcome back! Today's article in focus is brought to us by Tara Michaela and is a guide on how Inclusive sex ed empowers our communities, and keeps people safe.
Tara Michaela is a Black, queer sex educator based in Philadelphia and New York. She is the founder of The Youth Sexpert Program, a non-profit training program that aims to provide comprehensive sex education for high school aged youth, so they can become their community's sex expert. Her work focuses primarily on how injustice manifests in sexual interactions. She uses her social media platforms and written pieces to connect with her community on these issues.
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