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Tag: Racism

Posted on 13th Oct 202013th Oct 2020

Why are we so quick to silence women of colour?

This week, the Twitter-sphere graced itself for yet another victim of cancel culture. Stephanie Yeboah, former contributing editor of Grazia magazine has been dismissed following a series of historic tweets…

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Posted on 30th Jul 202030th Jul 2020

Do Middle Eastern and South Asian ‘Fiat 500 girls’ exist?

What happens when you coin the term ‘basic’ and transform it into its very own URL subculture? You get a spew of Fiat 500 girls, babes.  As defined by PopBuzz,…

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Posted on 29th Jul 2020

9/11 and the British Bangladeshi identity crisis

The British Bangladeshi identity is one that has been through the works and when you consider the history of the community, there is no wonder as to why. Although Bengali…

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Posted on 27th Jul 202028th Jul 2020

Do we have an obligation to ensure our partners are anti-racist?

At some point or another, we’ve probably all experienced that mind-numbing level of repulsion that comes from seeing your partner do something cringey. In the recent age, we call that…

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Posted on 20th Jul 2020

Are current conversations on racism achieving anything?

It is difficult not to feel that the reaction to George Floyd’s murder has been about cosmetics. We have been treated to woke capitalism as corporations gorged themselves on a…

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Posted on 17th Jun 202017th Jun 2020

Are criticisms of the race inequality commission’s Munira Mirza valid?

A storm of anger at racial inequality and injustice might have gripped America, but no-one from the British government could say that they haven’t felt some of it too. One…

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Posted on 12th Jun 202025th Jun 2020

How can we address anti-blackness in Desi spaces?

The death of George Floyd in Minnesota at the hands of the white police officer who knelt on his neck for nine minutes reopened a festering wound in America’s social…

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