Huck

Huck is inspired by DIY culture, featuring people who make you think, who challenge the system, who strike out on their own. Packed with intelligent journalism and stunning photography, it covers the people and the places that are shaping culture all over the world.

Editor Note

Huck

BFF • Fast becoming an American icon, comedian, TV writer, chat show host, fashionista and now author of the brilliant book of essays Black Friend, Ziwe is the direct, hilarious, no-nonsense person we all want to be best buddies with.

No Laughing Matter • A DRAG QUEEN, AN MP AND A JOURNALIST WALK INTO A BAR…

WHEN THE EAST IS IN THE HOUSE! • ELI GESNER AND RB UMALI LOOK BACK ON THE CROSS-POLLINATION OF EAST COAST SKATEBOARDING, HIP-HOP, AND GRAFFITI FOR ZOO YORK’S SEMINAL MIXTAPE (1997).

BLANCO IS REBOURNE • HOW ONE OF THE UK’S MOST ACCLAIMED MCS IS MOVING INTO NEW GENRES

SIGN of THE TIMES • Amber Galloway doesn’t just do sign language to music — she uses American Sign Language (ASL) and her body, face and vibes to channel the live experience and energy to deaf and hard-of-hearing fans.

TEEZEE DOES IT • NIGERIA’S TEEZEE IS USING HIS OWN MUSIC, LABEL AND PLATFORM TO TAKE AFRICAN VOICES GLOBAL.

THE FUTURE IS WRITTEN • ILANA KAPLAN EXPLAINS HOW BEING A MEDIA JOURNALIST HAS BECOME SO BLEAK. AND WHY HUMANS ARE MORE VITAL THAN EVER TO DELIVER THE NEWS WE CONSUME.

THE FREAKS CAME OUT TO WRITE

WORD ON THE STREET

ZHOOSH YOUR RIAH • A CENTURIES-OLD SECRET LANGUAGE MIGHT SOUND BEGUILING, BUT POLARI — A LANGUAGE DEVELOPED BY AND FOR THE QUEER COMMUNITY IN THE UK — HAD A VERY REAL PURPOSE: PROTECTION AND FREEDOM TO COMMUNICATE. A HOT SOUP OF INFLUENCES AND CULTURES, IT WAS FURTIVELY IN USE UP UNTIL THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY AND MANY POLARI WORDS ARE STILL USED TODAY.

BLACK COUNTRY TYPE • TOM HICKS’S LONG-TERM PHOTO PROJECT SEEKS TO DEFINE WHAT THE BLACK COUNTRY IS, THROUGH SIGNAGE, FONTS AND WORDS.

PEAK COMMUNICATION • SCALING NEW HEIGHTS TAKES SKILL, TRUST AND PERFECT COMMUNICATION FOR JESSE DUFTON, THE WORLD’S LEADING BLIND CLIMBER.

SURF SCHOOL • THROUGH TEACHING SURFING AND SWIMMING, SEASISTERS HOPE TO EMPOWER YOUNG WOMEN IN SRI LANKA AND TACKLE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS SUCH AS PLASTIC POLLUTION.

Blindboy Boatclub is Huck 80’s Artist-In-Residence.