My grandfather, the migrant patriot
By Sudip Bhattacharya My mom screamed, and I jumped to my feet. My grandfather, who was just moments ago, talking to us, had stopped breathing and was slumped over on […]
White Men Dancing the Podcast E5: Grenfell, GE17 and the cult of Corbyn
Jessica Straker from Grime4Corbyn and Tory activist and mentor Walaa Idris join MD hosts Kiri Kankwhende and Maurice Mcleod for this special post-election double episode. We talk about: – the general […]
The Rise of Pussy Envy
by Aisha Josiah Recently, I’ve heard an interesting refrain from male friends who have seen the newly released Wonder Woman film. It sounds something like: “After watching those fight scenes, […]
Waiting for body parts: 22 years after the Srebrenica genocide, families still seek loved ones to bury
by Mo Saqib I spent an evening with 31-year-old Ahmed Hrustanovic, an imam at Srebrenica’s main mosque. We sat with our iced teas on the balcony of Hotel Alic next […]
A crisis of definition, re-humanising the refugee
by Olivia Woldemikael The label of refugee is deceptive—it often hides more about a person than it reveals. In particular, when we refer to the ‘21 million refugees’ or ‘the refugee […]
“Nigerian food belongs to the Nigerian”: in conversation with Yemisi Aribisala
by Henna Zamurd-Butt “Nigerians don’t talk about their food” states Yemisi Aribisala, the delightfully stern cook-writer of The Longthroat Memoirs. Elsewhere she expands “there is no cultural reference point for […]
British Muslims and the need for safe spaces
by Zain Dada and Zainab Rahim You got a lot of societies and governments/ Tryin’ to be God, wishing that they were God. – Mos Def We emerge from within […]
Grenfell Tower: ‘there are only the deliberately silent, or the preferably unheard’
by Divya Ghelani The Grenfell Tower deaths were a failure of listening. They demonstrate a refusal on behalf of government to hear poor communities, particularly communities of colour, and to […]
Not talking to white people about race doesn’t mean withdrawing
by Huma Munshi “White privilege is one of the reasons why I stopped talking to white people about race…the idea of white privilege forces white people who aren’t actively racist […]
Limit(less) – a queer African journey to self-love
Limit(less) is a photography project documenting the lives of African LGBTQ people in the diaspora. Christina Fonthes speaks to photographer and writer Mikael Owunna the mind behind Limit(less) as he […]
