Tag: subcultures

• The Brand Age

  March 8, 2026

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• Why Won’t the Speakeasy Die? | PUNCH

  July 26, 2025

  The speakeasy aesthetic was once so ubiquitous it became a punchline. But long after the Edison bulbs have burned out, the hidden bar continues to flourish. https://punchdrink.com/articles/why-wont-speakeasy-die-breakroom-milk-honey-pdt-nyc/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20250726_Punch_Content_Another%20Round:%20Why%20won%E2%80%99t%20the%20speakeasy%20die?&utm_term=Punch%20-%20Latest%20%28LIST%20TO%20SEND%20TO%29%20%2A%2ASecond%20Attempt%2A%2A more ›

• Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex

  June 6, 2025

  Years before the Weimar Republic’s well-chronicled freedoms, the 1904 non-fiction study Berlin’s Third Sex depicted an astonishingly diverse subculture of sexual outlaws in the German capital. James J. Conway introduces… more ›

• The Forgotten History of the World’s First Trans Clinic

  June 6, 2025

  The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology. These heartbreaking stories, Hirschfeld wrote in The Sexual History of… more ›

• A Glimpse Inside Delhi’s Punk Scene

  August 18, 2023

  In a new photographic series, photographer Vivek Vadoliya and stylist James Lalthanzuala capture Delhi’s dancers and metalheads, dressed exclusively in secondhand and found objects, to reimagine discarded objects not as… more ›

• Dominic Cummings calls for ‘weirdos and misfits’ for No 10 jobs

  January 11, 2020

  Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser, has written a rambling blog calling for “weirdos and misfits with odd skills” to apply for new jobs within No 10. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/02/dominic-cummings-calls-for-weirdos-and-misfits-for-no-10-jobs more ›

• After Authenticity

  May 19, 2018

  After Authenticity » Has it occurred to you that nobody talks about sellouts anymore? Recently on my commute I passed someone wearing an Obey shirt. more ›

• Mehdi Hasan: How Islamic is Islamic State?

  July 12, 2016

  Mehdi Hasan: How Islamic is Islamic State? » It is difficult to forget the names, or the images, of James Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Haines, Alan Henning and Peter Kassig. more ›

• The colonization of subcultures

  May 17, 2016

  The colonization of subcultures “Today, the marketing machine can at best put its muscle behind a Justin Bieber and create coarse, large-scale culture whose manufactured nature is obvious to all… more ›

• TheSecret Lives of Tumblr Teens

  February 18, 2016

  TheSecret Lives of Tumblr Teens » It had taken Pizza more than two years to reach this milestone. In late 2010 she had signed up for Tumblr, the then-three-year-old social… more ›