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Rachel Pollack, trans activist and comic book writer, dies aged 77
By David Barnett The Guardian (UK) April 8th, 2023 Photo: Author Rachel Pollack Photograph: Joyce Tudrin/Courtesy Llewellyn Press Pollack, who…
Rachel Pollack obituary
By Christopher Priest The Guardian (UK) Monday, April 17th Photo by Rubi Rose The transgender pioneer Rachel Pollack, who has…
‘Unsung hero’: the baker and activist whose death inspired calls for restorative justice
By Sam Levin The Guardian February 18th, 2023 Jen Angel, a beloved Oakland baker and longtime activist, was in the…
Streams and lakes have rights, a US county decided. Now they’re suing Florida
By Isabella KaminskiThe GuardianMay 1st, 2021 A novel lawsuit is taking advantage of a local ‘rights of nature’ measure passed…
Only racist ignorance lets Rick Santorum think America was ‘birthed from nothing’
By Nick Estes The Guardian April 27th, 2021 Although the United States quickly accuses other nations of genocide, it hasn’t…
‘Nobody else could make this music’: the return of underground punks Rudimentary Peni
By Iain AitchThe Guardian UKApril 20th, 2021 Namechecked in the Oscar-nominated Sound of Metal, frontman Nick Blinko explains how he…
Witch Camp (Ghana): I’ve Forgotten Now Who I Used To Be review – magical sound of the marginalised
By Dorian LynskeyThe GuardianMarch 13th, 2021 (Six Degrees)Sung in little-spoken Ghanaian dialects, these haunting, spontaneous songs by women accused of…
Gurrumul, Omar Souleyman, 9Bach and DakhaBrakha: the best global artists the Grammys forgot
By Ian BrennanThe GuardianMarch 11th, 2021 Lebanon’s Mashrou’ Leila, Japan’s OOIOO and Syria’s Omar Souleyman are among artists from regions…
The Grammys have a major problem with global diversity. Lip service isn’t going to solve it
By Ian BrennanThe GuardianMarch 10th, 2021 Renaming the world music category does little to fix its pattern of exclusion, which…