'We are offering something people didn’t get before': inside gal-dem

The gal-dem collective is disrupting traditional media – all from their tiny HQ in a London car park If you wanted to find a kind of ground zero for gentrification, you could do worse than here: an office block carved out of a concrete multistorey car park in south-east London that now fizzes with the cumulative energy of dozens of startups. Yellow “Ahead Only” signs still mark the lanes that link digital media companies with eateries whose lunch dishes are garnished with labneh and almonds.The bigger businesses have garnished their parking spaces, too, with pot plants and deckchairs. But I have scaled these levels to find gal-dem, the award-winning online magazine run by women and non-binary people of colour. By contrast, its HQ is squeezed into a minuscule space about the size of one car parking spot. Their occupation here is an ambivalent one, both physically and metaphorically. The gal-dem journalists inhabit the space lightly – a few shelves and A1 magazine covers the only gesture towards permanence. There are few other people of colour working here.The final straw was taking a class on feminism, only to find it taught by, as Little describes him, 'this white man'There is a forthcoming gal-dem book, and a collaboration with the Afropunk festival, on top of regular club nights Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2018-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Adweek Builds New Executive Team, Naming Former People GM Zoë Ruderman Chief Content Officer and Former Condé Nast Executive Drew Schutte Chief Revenue Officer

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N.Y. woman clears $108M of other people's medical debt — after dying of cancer

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A Summary and Analysis of Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Good Country People’

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Why do so many people still love Friends? | Zoe Williams

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Scholastic Apologizes, Will End Controversial Book Fair Offering

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Frankfurt Photo Round-Up: People and Programming

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All The Public Libraries Offering Free Access to Banned Books: A Comprehensive Guide

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Rollout of Scholastic Book Fairs' New Diversity Offering Comes Under Fire

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Scholastic Offers Option to Exclude Diverse Books from Book Fairs

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Here’s the longlist for the 2023 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

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2023 NBA Longlist for Young People's Literature Announced

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