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Breaking – The new Queens of gaming have been crowned

Breaking – The new Queens of gaming have been crowned

Breakthrough media company Queens Gaming Collective aims to emancipate women from the male-centric gaming narrative, and it’s about time. β€˜All the boys were terrified of us meeting… they were like what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immoveable object?’, says Alisa Jacobs, CEO and co-founder of Queens Gaming...

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Exclusive – Welcome to the world’s first-ever digital green carpet

Exclusive – Welcome to the world’s first-ever digital green carpet

This year, Eco-Age is moving its revolutionary Green Carpet Fashion Awards online, celebrating fashion's commitment to sustainability with an innovative, solution-based virtual event. In the past decade, sustainability consultancy firm Eco-Age has connected with fashion's biggest environmental innovators. Some of its recent collaborations include Candiani, an Italian production company that supplies...

Exclusive report – Illegal air pollution in Texas rises 155% in 5 years

Exclusive report – Illegal air pollution in Texas rises 155% in 5 years

According to a recent report, unauthorised emissions from industrial facilities in Texas have tripled since 2015 as the EPA continues to roll back protective measures. At the beginning of the week, Thred Media and Global Citizen were given early access to a report sounding the alarm on rising rates of illegal industrial pollution in the state of Texas. According to the study conducted by Environment Texas and Frontier Group,...

By London, UK
Exclusive – Keiser Clark is the men’s streetwear label promoting connection and creativity

Exclusive – Keiser Clark is the men’s streetwear label promoting connection and creativity

We spoke with one-half of the cult-fashion brand about their work, the industry-wide push for more sustainability, and the value of using social media to start important conversations. Headed by Marc Keiser and Andrew Clark, Keiser Clark has made quite the name for itself since officially launching three years ago. Thanks to a range of one-of-a-kind leather jackets that stirred up quite the frenzy on social media, the label blew...

By London, UK
Exclusive – Inside the mind of Gen Z director Jason Joyride

Exclusive – Inside the mind of Gen Z director Jason Joyride

Jason Joyride, up-and-coming director and creative talent for Rico Nasty, talks Gen Z’s responsibility for social change, and reinventing musicals for the hip-hop age. When you first watch Rico Nasty’s music video for β€˜Popstar’, a trap and punk-infused banger that dropped in early April, it’s hard not to be drawn in by the explosive colour, jittery doodles, and electric backdrops. The video is the brainchild of Jason Joyride, a...

By Bristol, UK
Exclusive – Meet Nyome, the model who changed Instagram’s nudity policy

Exclusive – Meet Nyome, the model who changed Instagram’s nudity policy

The social media platform has pledged to do better when it comes to censoring plus-size Black women's bodies, following a campaign from model Nyome Nicholas-Williams. β€˜If thin, white models can post nearly-naked photos on Instagram, why can’t I,’ asked plus-size model Nyome Nicholas-Williams (who uses the handle @CurvyNyome) in response to Instagram repeatedly removing semi-nude photographs from her profile. β€˜Millions of pictures of very naked, skinny white women can be...

By London, UK