“People might speculate on why someone might end up homeless – mental health issues, substance misuse, debt, abuse, relationship breakdown – but very few people understand the day-to-day experience of being homeless.”
On the face of it, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s book The Mushroom at the End of the World is about the matsutake mushroom. But the subtitle – On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins – suggests something much more.
It’s five years since Lacuna Magazine was founded. In that time, we’ve published stories from around the world, covering food poverty, migration, environment, equality, protest – all of them centred on human rights and social justice. Here’s a collection of our most popular stories to date, written by students, journalists, academics and activists.
Nitin Sonawane left his hometown in India three years ago and has spent every day since travelling from country-to-country by foot or bicycle. Inspired to complete the mission to mark 150 years since Gandhi’s birth (on October 2 2019), he is now walking across the UK.
In the first episode of Spoken Earth, Lacuna’s new podcast series, Adam Weymouth meets British anthropologist Hugh Brody, discussing land rights, the Arctic, and the hunter-gatherer view of the world.
When 29-year-old entrepreneur Saima Thompson received a terminal diagnosis she began to understand the extent of the stigma some British South Asians attach to cancer. Here she explores the idea of “immigrant shame”, saying cultural taboos are fuelling health inequalities and costing lives.
Protests against Birmingham’s Anderton Park Primary School’s ‘No Outsiders’ programme have raised questions about how Muslims and the LGBT community can co-exist. Our writer’s life straddles that divide.
