REBEL : 30 Years of London Fashion ………….. The Design Museum, London  reviewed by Ris Fatah

      Londoners have always cared about how they look. Throughout history, each generation has created its own looks, with inspiration drawn from a wide variety of sources. Rebel is a new exhibition at London’s Design Museum. It focuses on the early work of a group of about 300 fashion designers from the past … Continue reading

REBEL HEARTS the story of the nuns who challenged the patriarchal conventions of the Catholic Church

Rebel Hearts is Director Pedro Kos’s fascinating documentary about an activist group of feminist nuns who fought for change within the Catholic Church in California during the 1960s. The 1950s and early 1960s were still a very patriarchal society in America with women expected to miss higher education, marry young, bear children, and stay at … Continue reading

Rebels on Pointe

Rebels On Pointe is a very affectionate profile by Canadian award-winning documentarian Bobbi Jo Hart on Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo an American all-male (and proudly openly gay) Ballet Company corps which parodies the conventions and clichés of romantic and classical ballet. Harte adopts a  cinema vérité approach with her very entertaining film that takes us … Continue reading

Reclaim Pride March : London July 24th

If you live or are about to visit the UK we wholeheartedly encourage you to join The Reclaim Pride March on Saturday 24 July. It will leave from Parliament Square soon after 1 pm and proceed via Downing Street and the Uganda High Commission in Trafalgar Square. It will pause at these two landmarks to … Continue reading

Reclaiming the Pink Triangle

  To mark this year’s International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, Vangardist Magazine has teamed up with Mauthausen Memorial and Serviceplan Group to pay attention to the little-known history of what went on in this Nazi concentration camp in Austria. Mauthausen was specifically built to imprison and murder anyone the Nazis deemed undesirable, including homosexual men, … Continue reading

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