culture

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Features

A new trans tipping point

In the 2010s, trans characters were a regular part of popular TV shows. With that progress going into reverse, trans Bristolians reflect on the lack of representation in modern culture

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Reports

Shindig Festival stands firm on Bob Vylan booking despite licencing pressure

Adam Quarshie Priyanka Raval
Adam Quarshie, Priyanka Raval and Sam Kinch

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Edson Burton – what is culture and who does it belong to?

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Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media
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Photography

Kitchen Table Photo Club

Children with analogue cameras explored the waterways of east Bristol over the summer. Here’s what they captured

Esther May Campbell and Chiz Williams

Music

Sisterhood of sound: 10 years of Saffron

Telojo Emina
Telojo Emina
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Hope Is Around The Corner

What are you reading for?

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Edition 41

Moyah: Sound of survival

MoYah — rapper, Afrofusion artist, activist — sits down with The Cable to trace his journey from Mozambique to Portugal to the UK, and how that path shaped his sound and sense of self

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Hope Is Around The Corner

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Indiana Jones would want me to punch Nazis

After the race riots last summer, Nikesh recalls heading into Castle Park looking for a fight. An out of character response he’s been trying to make sense of ever since.

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Hope Is Around The Corner

Look Up

Nikesh Shukla introduces his new Cable column, Hope Is Around the Corner, with a tale that begins with a picture of a twat, and an outdated racist slur.

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked – from Wigan to LA, via Eastville, with Bristol Northern Soul Club

Neil chats to Bristol Northern Soul Club’s Levanna McLean and Eve Arslett about the scene’s resurgence – and how the Eastville Club has become an unlikely place of pilgrimage

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Alex Turner, George Colwey and Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Music

Blazing the fire: Sound system culture through the generations

Sound system culture arrived with the Windrush Generation and took root in St Paul's and Easton, where speaker stacks became monuments to belonging, resistance, and Black identity.

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked – high sheriff Kalpna Woolf on connecting people through food and battling for boardroom diversity

Neil chats to Kalpna Woolf on her journey from west London migrant kid to BBC head of production, cookbook author and boardroom diversity advocate – as well asking what exactly a high sheriff gets up to.

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Alex Turner, George Colwey and Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media
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