Join Pat the Pigeon on a journey to the bakery in this comic strip, which featured in Issue 19 of Greater Govanhill. Pat the Pigeon was created by Kirsty Ken English, an artist, illustrator and educator based in the Southside. Follow them on Instagram for more Pat the Pigeon.

“Plants seem to have a language of their own, with which they communicate to us their medicinal properties. In turn, humans have developed various ways of transmitting plant lore, knowledge and medicinal uses of herbs and other plants.” - Beti Scott, Movement in Thyme.

After attending a Rumpus Room workshop on intuition in South Asian cooking, two of our Young Voices team, Jiaqi Zheng and Zainab Ashraf, were inspired to ponder how intuition has shaped their respective cultural upbringings.

We asked a number of people in Govanhill to imagine a future, a more perfect version of the neighbourhood, 10 years from now.

“The climate crisis is huge and scary. Even the most environmentally aware of us instinctively want to suppress that fear, to put it on the bottom of the mental list and wish it would go away”. The fight for climate justice wearing you down? Read a handy illustrated guide for an environmentally-conscious morale boost.