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Ballroom was born in New York’s Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ community in the 1970s, at a time when survival often meant creating your own spaces of care, resilience, and resistance. Houses became chosen families, offering not only creativity and performance, but also protection, guidance, and solidarity.

Masculinity is a complex issue, shaped by an interplay of historical, cultural and social factors that have created limiting and distorted stereotypes. In popular culture, social expectations have helped to create images that still influence how Black men are perceived, both within their community and in wider society.We decided to publish this intimate and delicate issue to explore the roots of …

Detroit wasn’t just a city: it was an idea of America. It was the place where technology married utopia, where every single engine produced seemed to move not just four wheels, but an entire social system. When deindustrialization hit and the social system faltered, Detroit did not stop being a symbol. It just changed the kind of symbol it represented: from capital of industry to epicentre of …