Issue 73: Autumn 2020

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RADICAL CULTURE

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EDITORIAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Andrea Kurland andrea@tcolondon.com EDITOR Niall Flynn niall@tcolondon.com DIGITAL EDITOR Dominique Sisley dominique@tcolondon.com CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Ben Smoke Jamie Brisick SOCIAL EDITOR Benjamin Cook CONTRIBUTORS Akasha
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An Introduction
So. Where to start? Let’s try the beginning. Back in February (which, by now, feels like more than a few lifetimes ago), we started work on the latest instalment of Huck. The one you’re reading now The working title of the issue was Sanctuary. Over t
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Death Magick Abundance
When it comes to long-term documentary work that focuses on a specific community, there are obvious ethical questions to consider. So when Akasha Rabut began piecing together Death Magick Abundance – a portrait of New Orleans, post-Katrina – she made
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Dear Philadelphia
Despite the fact she’s from the UK, Renee Maria Osubu doesn’t feel like an outsider in Philadelphia. The London photographer first visited the city in 2015 when volunteering at a summer camp with her church, before returning again a year later to run
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Compton Cowboys
Walter Thompson-Hernandez was six years old when he first came across the Compton Cowboys. Having grown up nearby, he was driving into the city with his mother when two black men rode past on horseback. It was unlike anything he’d ever seen before. T
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Mavi
Few artists will take you to the depths of their mind with more clarity than Mavi. The 20-year-old rapper is, by his own admission, naturally inquisitive. So as far as he’s concerned, nothing is off limits. His swirling stream-ofconsciousness flow ch
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Queens of Caracas
It’s 11pm at Club Cul*, a covert drag club hidden within a disused corporate building situated on the affluent east side of Caracas, Venezuela. Located in the neighbourhood of Altamira – the city’s largest business district – the space is home to bot
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WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS with Baxter Dury
“There are quite a lot of gentle, posh folk living in this block, but we are the mavericks,” says Baxter Dury, talking from his roomy Hammersmith flat that overlooks the Thames. “Historically, we’ve been causing a lot of noise here for 40 years. We’r
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Dancing In The Street
On the third floor of an old building in Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, a group of girls float silently across the wooden floor. A teacher shifts between them, barking instructions. “One and two and three and close!” she shouts, pushing one dancer’s bac
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Riding Out The Storm
Thundercat is closing a difficult chapter with the release of his best work so far. If there’s one thing the past few years have taught the LA virtuoso, it’s that life is as fleeting as it is precious so he plans to continue living it to the fullest,
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The Behemoths Of Nazaré
On the morning of Tuesday, 11 February, giant teepeeshaped waves marched into Nazare, the famous surf break on the west coast of Portugal. They moved in a latticed formation that looked deceptively organised. Only when a jet ski whipped a surfer into
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Midas touch
The midday sun is beating down on a scruffy industrial estate in Tavros, a suburb on the outskirts of Athens. Everything in sight is a shade of sun-bleached dirt, except for some imposing warehouse gates topped with razor wire, and a big metal wheeli
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The Education Activist Turning Tragedy Into Triumph
Jamira’s home is full of paraphernalia and keepsakes. On the walls of her living room is a triptych of American tragedies rendered in graphic art. To the left, a black woman is screaming, crying, wrapped in the stars and stripes, her face streaked wi
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Rita Indiana
Rita Indiana is best defined by her fearlessness. As a musician, she became one of the Caribbean’s biggest stars through her commitment to constant innovation. In 2018, her debut novel Tentacle – a queer dystopian sci-fi – announced her as an unflinc
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Once Upon A Time in Lincolnshire
Every other Sunday from October to March, a sandy stretch of Lincolnshire coast plays host to one of the most unique racing events in the country. On these select winter mornings, Mablethorpe Beach transforms into a hotbed of activity as people and t
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HEAVY weight champ
Nor Diana – a.k.a. Phoenix – is growing increasingly excited as she recalls the biggest night in her wrestling career so far. “As soon as the referee called the end of the match I cried,” she says, grinning. “It changed my life forever.” The 20-year-
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The Artist Leading Floristry’s Youthful Takeover
Floristry has changed a lot in the last few years. What was once the preserve of suburban gardens, memorials and Radio 4 programming has since flowered as a legitimate part of the modern creative universe, drawing from every imaginable discipline and
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Forever young
“I first stumbled upon The Station in Newcastle in 1985. It was just after the miners’ strike and things were pretty depressed. The north-east of England became de-industrialised in a very short space of time as the coal mines, steelworks and shipbui
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Perfume Genius Fixes Your Life
I want to change my astrological sign. I am a Libra and I am sick of always being nice to people. I long to be more aggressive, maybe an Aries. As a fellow Libra, do you ever feel this way? Is it possible for us to reject these cosmic labels? – Harry

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