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At WHOLE Festival, Queer Collectives From Around the World Sweat Together
Ferropolis, the Iron City outside Berlin: a weekend of queer chaos, carnage and joy, and a momentary utopia of converging…
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Bangkok’s Tight-Knit Electronic Underground: Kangkao
Thailand, a country infected with holiday-makers, experiences a nightlife dominated by expats and major corporations who often cater exclusively to…
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At Playbody’s Softclub, Club Kids Get Slower Human Connection
“Every single person plays a part in creating the atmosphere”: a woman in latex on all fours with a fruit…
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The Museum of Youth Culture Was Born From a Gritty 1990s Cult Mag
What began as a rebellious “post-drug culture” magazine handed out for free to clubbers in the 1990s has spun out…
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‘London Is in a Rizz Recession’: Minor Attractions 2026
Moving from its usual location at The Mandrake Hotel, Minor Attractions art fair recently hosted its first summer art festival…
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Rock Will Be the ‘Next Wave’ After UK Underground Rap
“Rock will be as hyped as the rap scene is now in a few years”: the collective that made fakemink…
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At Flash Festival, Electronic Music Meets Pasta, Wine and Sunrise Dancing
My first meeting with Flash Festival happened in the pouring rain, outside a train station somewhere near Arezzo.
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Cannibalising Marilyn Monroe: America’s Most Enduring Cultural Fetish
“Every god is created to be eaten”, declares philosopher Edgar Morin in his 1957 book on the Hollywood celebrity-machine, The…
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Come Build Rhizomatic, a FLINTA Third Space, With Me
After graduating from the Royal College of Art with a Masters in Textiles in September, I began to apply to…
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‘Faggots Fuck as Empires Crumble’: Cruising Archaeology’s New Book Explores Sex, Surveillance and Trash
Cruising is a crash course in compassion, says Jack Scollard, co-founder of queer nightlife and publishing powerhouse SMUT Press.
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No-Phone Parties Are Taking London by Storm: Here’s Where to Find One
“Artists look out on a sea of smartphones instead of faces”: German club culture has been synonymous with camera bans…
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The London Drag Artists Battling ‘Neoliberal Bullsh*t’ Drag
“If there’s a freak inside you that wants to get out, just do something about it!” Eight artists on the…
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Why I Never Loved the Main Character – and Will Always Love the Adjacent Girl
It was one of those periods where everything looked fine, but nothing felt settled.
