Culture & communities

‘My mother didn’t ever speak to me about it periods and found the whole subject matter of periods, and sex or anything like that very, very difficult to talk about. My first period was a very lonely sort of experience’.

Seeing a houseboat from the inside, being able to jump on board to feel the gentle, floating sway, and to be able to move your house whenever you want (quite literally) are things that many of us dream of.

‘Representation is so important,’ she says. ‘Seeing yourself on TV, on social media it creates confidence because you think, “there’s someone who looks like me doing all these things, and I can do this too.”’

Local photographer Jamie Sinclair captures how residents, businesses and organisations came together during the early days of lockdown.  Sinclair was

What makes this image unusual, and typical of Covid-19, is the singular plane spotted in the left hand of the photo. Detje says ‘they’re so rare now, compared to how many planes we would normally see’.

Meet Ksantikara Dharmachari, the person who can introduce you to life within the mysterious walls of the London Buddhist Centre,

Last September, just six years after its founding, Victoria Park Singers performed at the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall.

Daniella Stuart, Stepney resident of 30 years, came out as a trans woman in 2017 when she was 49. The