'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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Inside the Narrators Booth: Things You Never Knew About Audiobook Narrators

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2022 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Nominees Announced

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Here’s the longlist for the 2021 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

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Moscow court revokes Novaya Gazeta’s licence to publish inside Russia

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ALA Responds as Legislation Threatens Librarians for Offering Information on Abortion Services

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'iCarly' alum Jennette McCurdy alleges Nickelodeon offered her hush money

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‘Bookish People’ is the perfect summer read for book lovers

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Dave Trott 'best of' e-book published for people with dyslexia

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Why are people on TikTok obsessed with Little Miss quizzes? And are they harvesting my data?

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What if White people woke up with dark skin? Mohsin Hamid’s novel wonders.

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A book on leadership that offers real leaders, not abstract theories

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These are the books all the rich people will be reading in the metaverse this year.

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