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  • Woke is back – or is it?

    Woke is back – or is it?

    Winds in the east, mist comin’ in. Like somethin’ is brewin’ and ‘bout to begin. Can’t put me finger on what lies in store. But I feel what’s to happen all happened before. By which I mean – is woke back?  It certainly feels like it. In the past few weeks Sydney Sweeney, of eugenicist…

  • ‘Accept your ugly’: I tried ‘beauty shadow work’ to help my self-esteem

    ‘Accept your ugly’: I tried ‘beauty shadow work’ to help my self-esteem

    Embarrassingly, I started surfing lessons because it’s sexy. My self-esteem was low, and signing up I could already see it: glossy wetsuit half unzipped, salty droplets articulating the curves of my face and bikini top, my fingers raking through sea-tousled hair. But after the first few lessons, as I zoomed into photos, it dawned on…

  • Amelia Gray answers the dA-Zed quiz

    Amelia Gray answers the dA-Zed quiz

    Miu Miu Select by Amelia Gray Gallery / 8 images The year is 2023, and Amelia Gray has never worked with Miu Miu before. Though the rising model already has stacks of high-profile clients under her belt, a co-sign from Miuccia Prada’s little sister brand has eluded her. That was, until, a little help from…

  • The most loved photo stories from November 2025

    The most loved photo stories from November 2025

    This month’s most loved photo stories on Dazed have all been connected to the idea of forbidden, hidden or lost spaces. Paris-based photographer Sofiya Loriashvili takes us behind the wizard’s curtain into the unseen world of a strip club changing room, while Sam Penn allows us incredibly intimate access to her romance with Max Battle.…

  • Horoscopes December 2025: Expect fun, flirting and major plot twists

    Horoscopes December 2025: Expect fun, flirting and major plot twists

    Grace McGrade is an intuitive astrologer based in Los Angeles. She is the head astrologer of the app “Stars Align”. Her sessions include birth chart readings, transits, energetic clearings and psychic consultations. For more astrology, read her guide to rising signs and moon signs. Read an overview of what 2025 has coming up for us…

  • Pillion, a gay biker romcom dubbed a ‘BDSM Wallace and Gromit’

    Pillion, a gay biker romcom dubbed a ‘BDSM Wallace and Gromit’

    Pillion Gallery / 15 images Is it a romcom or, as Alexander Skarsgård calls it, a domcom? Either way, Pillion, the debut feature from writer-director Harry Lighton, isn’t a typical British love story, even if its central relationship develops in the ordinary suburbs of Bromley after a meet-cute on Christmas Day. Colin (Harry Melling), an…

  • 10 of Yung Lean’s best collabs

    10 of Yung Lean’s best collabs

    Yung Lean – The Winter Issue 2025 Gallery / 19 images In many ways, Yung Lean is music’s ultimate outsider. Born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, he gleaned hip-hop culture from a distance, studying the likes of Nas, 50 Cent and local act The Latin Kings before launching his own ethereal, English-as-a-second-language rap career on…

  • ‘We’re like brother and sister’: Yung Lean and Charli xcx in conversation

    ‘We’re like brother and sister’: Yung Lean and Charli xcx in conversation

    Yung Lean – The Winter Issue 2025 Gallery / 19 images This story is taken from the winter 2025 issue of Dazed, which is on sale internationally from December 5. Pre-order a copy of the magazine here. Yung Lean and Charli xcx are kindred spirits. That might seem like an unlikely thing to say about…

  • This film is an intimate portrait of Black hair and identity

    This film is an intimate portrait of Black hair and identity

    Crusts, 2025 Gallery / 9 images Some of the first things I remember ever hearing about my hair were extremely negative. “Your hair is very coarse and rough,” a hairdresser told me when I was eight or nine years old. Her words, flippantly spoken in frustration as she struggled to detangle my hair before braiding,…

  • What can extinct, 40,000-year-old Neanderthals teach us about being human?

    What can extinct, 40,000-year-old Neanderthals teach us about being human?

    “I’ve been thinking about Neanderthals a lot,” said the musician Grimes in a recent podcast interview. The statement echoed imagery in her new music video, “Artificial Angels”, as well as an X post she made earlier this year: “I want to know the Neanderthals so badly, with every fiber of my soul. God, I think…