August in Doncaster is Pride month, and while the actual Pride event sadly couldn’t take place this month, we wanted to celebrate anyway! We’ve written about Doncaster Pride in the past (read our previous blog posts here), and this year we reached out to local Drag Artist Bipolar Abdul to ask what Pride means to …
We asked freelance journalist Kylie Noble to write about her experiences growing up in Northern Ireland, coming-out as Bisexual, and finally leaving London for Doncaster. I had never planned to move to London, in the way many young people from inconsequential places do. With intent and yearning, I had planned to escape, but the parameters …
We invited super brain Nick Goldstein to talk about Drug Policy Reform in conjunction with our online issue of Doncopolitan online themed Art In Action. Born in the old, analogue 20th century in the Shetland Islands, Nick was educated at public school,University and the street. He started taking drugs at 15 and if you name …
Warren Draper is a co-founder of Doncopolitan, who came up with the original concept for the magazine in 2010. He is a visual artist, photographer, activists, ecologist and acclaimed writer currently working closely with Freedom and often published by Idler. I first floated the idea for Doncopolitan back in 2010 because I felt that we …
Understanding White Privilege in a Town With No Privileges. by Olivia Jones Doncaster, like many other towns in the north of England, is a predominantly white working class area. It is a town where people suffered in the Thatcher era and due to the continued false promises from the government, was lost in the fray …