Dazed & Confused

A trailblazer for emerging talent and proudly independent, Dazed magazine aims to set the cultural agenda, both on and offline. Founded by Jefferson Hack and Rankin in 1991, the entire archive of back issues is available for digital subscribers to Dazed. The independent British fashion, culture and arts magazine has a strong global reputation for its groundbreaking and trendsetting editorial and its support of new generations of fashion, art, literature, photography and music talent. DazedDigital.com, their online magazine, is updated daily, hosting interactive projects, extra editorial content, exclusive music and fashion film.

Dazed & Confused

NEW ISSUE, WHO DIS?

STARTERS • What’s new and what’s next for our pick of the names pushing culture forward

FEELING SCENE • Faces from NYC's creative milieu drop a pin in their favourite places to hang

HYPERSCRIPTURE • How digital natives learned to tune out the IRL and find God in the guiding hand of the algorithm

GIDA JOURNAL • East meets west in Gida, the panAfrican print journal spotlighting new creative talent on both sides of the lens. Here, founder and creative director Momo reflects on the homecoming that led to its launch and the people and places that inspire her

HIJAB BUTCH BLUES • Exploring stories from the Qur’an through a non-binary lens, activist and adopted New Yorker Lamya H’s memoir …. is a queer manifesto and a radical affirmation of faith

THE O-ZONE • Here to help bring you to ecstasy with her book The Big O, Oloni is the online relationships guru the thirsty internet needs right now

YOUNG, FRESH & NEW • For years neglected by an industry that failed to nurture its potential, UK R&B is finally getting its shine thanks to an eclectic band of up-and- comers bringing fresh new perspective to the scene - and dismantling stereotypes around a genre that has never stood still for long

THELONIOUS STOKES • ‘Blackwashing’ figures from the Bible in his magnetic and macabre work, Thelonious Stokes is the Florencebased artist tweaking the old masters’ noses to illumate ‘the gentle truth that’s inside all of us’

BORDERLANDS: CROSSING EREZ • Five years on from the Great March of Return protesting the Israeli blockade, the Gaza Strip remains the world’s largest open-air prison. Our writer crosses the border at Erez, a place where dreams of freedom come to die, to discover a people whose refusal to forget is an act of resistance

AGENTS OF CHANGE • Pushing back against the post-truth era, Forensic Architecture’s use of cutting-edge technology to uncover cases of state-sponsored violence across the globe has become a vital tool in the fight for social justice

Where Do We Go Next?

WHO’S AFRAID OF AZEALIA BANKS? • It’s been over a decade since Azealia Banks blew up, in every possible sense, as the most provocative rapper of her generation. But her unfiltered approach to fame revealed hypocrisies on both sides of the argument. Can the Harlem-born rapper ever outrun the past?

Freestyle

In Focus

SPICE WORLD • Born on the January 1, 2000 with a superstar’s sense of immaculate timing, Ice Spice is the new people’s princess twerking the pain away with her fluorescent spin on the Bronx drill scene

ART ATTACK! • With their soup-throwing theatrics at the National Gallery in October, two campaigners from Just Stop Oil showed how to wake people up to the climate crisis with nothing but a tin opener and nerves of steel. Across these pages, climate activists from across the world reveal why ‘hope is a thing we create when we take action’

QUEENZ • Zaya Wade is a shining example of the power of living one’s own truth. Since coming out as trans at the age of 12, she’s taken on the mantle of activist, fashion-world icon - and now, for...