Juliette Chalant Devlesaver
This poem recounts a moment of solidarity forged between two women at a bus stop in Brussels who do not know each other and may never meet again. At its core, this poem is a reflection upon both the weight and power that three simple words - “get home safe” - have to those who don’t feel safe alone at night; for whom the city and public space doesn’t belong to and isn’t made for.
Read MoreDemetrius Wijesinghe
Building upon his personal experience as a postgraduate student researcher, Demetrius Wijesinghe argues for the importance of implementing of a safe, survivor-focused approach when investigating and documenting conflict-related sexual violence, to avoid further harm being inflicted upon survivors.
Read MoreHayley Headley
In her latest piece on reproductive rights and the right to education in the context of increased rates of teen pregnancies, Hayley Headley explores why Belize is struggling to achieve a comprehensive sexual health curriculum.
Read MoreHayley Headley
Hayley Headley writes on the historical and contemporary consequences of the “angry black woman” stereotype and its role in silencing black women. Now, black women are at the forefront of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, angry for change and social justice, but definitely *not* a stereotype.
Read MoreTate Tsang
Using the album 4:44 by Jay-Z as a case study, Oxford University music student Tate Tsang writes about issues of commodification of hip-hop culture and its effects on the perception of rap music and the black members affiliated with it.
Read MoreNishan Kafle
Women are deemed “impure” during their menstruation, consequentially banished to small huts and barred from participating in daily family activities such as cooking. Chhaupadi permeates nearly every socio-economic group of Nepal, with differences arising only in the extent of the implementation.
Read MoreJessica Algie
Back in January, during her commute into London, my Aunty noticed that upon embarking the train carriage people started to move away from her and walked into the next carriage. When my Aunty decided to take her seat next to an old lady, the lady proceeded to get up and manoeuvre away. For the next two months before lockdown, this incident repeated itself like a recurring nightmare.
Read MoreSania Mahyou
In the ranks of the uprising movement that has been affecting Lebanon for almost a month, many revolutionaries are women. In addition to the substantial demands related to corruption, the cost of living, unemployment, public services, and the political system, they are fighting for their own rights as women.
Read MoreNadja Wipp
The social media landscape has also provided a platform for people to perform, to depict volunteer work as heroic, and to construct an image of selflessness. Within this narrative framework, the volunteer’s identity while traveling becomes a ‘pure’ self - a Saviour. Does this phenomenon not echo similar ideologies of colonialism, imperialism, and the project to ‘civilise’?
Read MoreDerek Tahara
My grandparents did not understand that the President authorised an executive order enforcing the detainment of thousands of Japanese Americans, a decision that all started with the bombing of Pearl Harbor 1941. All they understood was that when the weather and time would allow it, they would be able to go outside and play.
Read MoreSimon Drees and Rebecca Forman
One key goal in ensuring good health and wellbeing is Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Fundamentally, it is about who can access services (population coverage), what is covered (service coverage), and how this healthcare is financed (financial coverage). While some states have achieved UHC, significant inequities within those systems often remain, which led to particular injustices for persons with disabilities.
Read MoreAna Paula de Castro Mansur
When last November the extreme-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil, multiple theories surfaced to try to elucidate his rise to power: economic crisis, corruption scandals from other parties and general dissatisfaction with politics, to name just a few. Despite the relevance of all these factors, the most accurate explanation for his election might not be in the economic and political contexts, but in the candidate himself. More specifically, in what he represents.
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