Reviving Lorraine Hansberry’s captivating and horrifying portrayal of colonialism
Category: Learnings
Black Feminist Futures: White Feminist Pasts
Why White feminist spaces will not simply become ‘intersectional’ because we declare them to be.
No country for Phoenix Man
Gender, class and online forums, from Jiangxi to Shanghai
Beyond Voyeurism: Skin Deep in Calais
5 things you should know about the camp.
Paris and the Tyranny of Values
How the promotion of majoritarian culture solidifies difference and why we need to liberate humanism from Western values
The Anatomy of a Genocide
There is no imminence to unrest, its origins can be plotted like old genealogy maps. When unrest arrives it bears down in the same way the heaviness of thunderclouds breaks, there is almost a sense of satisfaction when the anticipation finds physical release. The transition of Sri Lanka from colonised to liberated was made with… Continue reading The Anatomy of a Genocide
Displaced, Misplaced, Replaced
Are we repeating history? How the current migrant ‘crisis’ is connected to the history of migration in Europe
Jennifer Pan: Discussing the Perils of Tiger Parenting
Dealing with how we talk about mental health issues in the Asian community
Organizing White People
What can a sincere white person do in the fight against racism?
Mindfulness and Violence
Over the past few years, interest in mindfulness meditation has exploded in the West: there is now a ‘Mindful Magazine’, the NHS recommends mindfulness as a treatment for depression and anxiety, and courses in mindfulness are popping up all over the country, including here at Oxford University, where much of the rapidly growing body of… Continue reading Mindfulness and Violence