#12 Online Lies, Offline Lives
Don’t Worry, Buy Happy!
You deserve a break—maybe that’s the reason you’re reading this article. Sit back, relax and … watch out! Companies and influencers around the world are
16 December 2021
You deserve a break—maybe that’s the reason you’re reading this article. Sit back, relax and … watch out! Companies and influencers around the world are
“Did you know they’re breeding humans with pigs?” Karin* asked Stephanie* after seeing a video about it. Stephanie didn’t know what to say. When she
On a hot summer’s day in a small bookstore that doubled as a haven for collectors of vintage records, I met him. At around 1.80
After 41 years of one-party rule in Czechoslovakia, communism was traded in for a new sense of freedom in 1989. But recent events have shown the ghost of old comrades in new forms.
After 41 years of one-party rule in Czechoslovakia, communism was traded in for a new sense of freedom in 1989. But recent events have shown the ghost of old comrades in new forms.
Hello, I’m Oleksandr.
I’m a so-called troll hunter, and part of an online army of people fighting disinformation
Russian disinformation campaigns have become notorious around the world for their ability to cause chaos.
After 41 years of one-party rule in Czechoslovakia, communism was traded in for a new sense of freedom in 1989. But recent events have shown the ghost of old comrades in new forms.
Hidden in the verdant valleys of Devon, a rural county in South West England, lies Ottery St Mary. A textbook English countryside town, the average
The old cultural centre smells like sweat and bratwurst. Middle- aged dancers in Western wear arrange themselves into neat lines around me. A bouncy girl with pigtails and
Angela Richter is a German-Croatian theatre director and journalist who has interviewed some of the world’s most notorious whistleblowers, including Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. I asked her to explain her vision of a world without secrets.
“Justice is like a train that is nearly always late,” reads one of the signs from a protest condemning the death of a Black student from KU Leuven
“Integration has nothing to do with learning the Chancellor’s name.”
For queer Muslims, who often find themselves excluded at the crossroads of their multilayered identities, such spaces can provide an antidote to the discrimination and injustices they experience.
Diving into the secretive rendezvous held in public toilets, exploring an aspect that has often been swept under the carpet by the community itself.
How gay, trans and genderfluid experiences are redefining activism along intersectional lines in one of Europe’s most conservative societies.
“What were the colours of your bedsheets?” LGBTQ asylum seekers searching for safety were asked.
Hidden inside the ad pages of these vintage magazines, was a community expressing their wants and needs, free of judgment.
It’s just past four o’clock in the morning, and I’m cycling through the still, damp air of a summer night in Bosnia. I’m heading southeast from the Croatian
Julian Sanchez was in a hurry. He still had to buy a pair of cheap black trousers. He would wear his black leather shoes—as required by the dress code—but didn’t want to ruin his only suit.
In the fall of 2020, Selemon (not his real name) received an email announcing that a marathon race would be held in the Czech Republic. As an Ethiopian-born long-distance runner living in Europe, Selemon had been training throughout the pandemic. Like many of his peers who rely on prize money and appearances for a living, he’d been struggling. His bank account was drying up, and his resolve was weakening too. Here, finally, was an opportunity.
Q&A with Johannes Mallow, the two-time World Memory Champion.
“Most skaters are boys, I don’t know why,” says six-year-old Mac Morrice from West Lothian in Scotland. “Everybody thinks skating is a boys’ sport, and
While previous generations longed to be Danish, the youth are reclaiming traditional Greenlandic culture.
My 60-year old father’s finger wagged as he pointed west, north, and south across the wattle and pine tree timber plantations
Why the minority German-Namibian community still lives apart from the rest of the country
When I told my dad I was learning Irish, he reminded me of how my grandmother, who had moved from Cork, Ireland to Sheffield, England