As part of our #MDAcademics space, in a two part essay, Barâa Arar discusses the impact of French Language policies in Algeria, how it impacts not only language but a whole culture, and how to overcome. Read Part one here The Algerian novelist Ahlam Mosteghanemi chose to write in Arabic instead of French, as part of… Read More
How language makes and unmakes our world: French language policies in Algeria
As part of our #MDAcademics space, in a two part essay, Barâa Arar discusses the impact of French Language policies in Algeria, how it impacts not only language but a whole culture, and how to overcome. Part One Language is a fundamental hallmark of the human experience. Without language we cannot express trivial things; “Pass… Read More
The Fire Now: anti-racist scholarship in times of explicit racial violence
Azeezat Johnson introduces a new co-edited volume which looks at the implicit and explicit racism in our so-called post-racial states Read More
‘Time exists only in white’: deconstructing the history of Brazilian nationhood
Danny Dubner introduces a sound essay, Pindorama, named after for the Tupi-Guarani tribe designated to the area we now call Brazil and how a the ‘discovery of a country’ narrative masks the invasion of a thriving culture Read More
Pay your cleaner what you earn, or clean up yourself!
If everyone did their share, no one would be forced to do housework as a second shift or as their primary source of income writes Arianne Shahvisi Read More
Life in the Rohingya refugee camps
Karen Williams writes about a month in the Rohingya refugee camps Read More
Let’s say goodbye to respectability, and welcome assertiveness (Part 2)
Beth Collier shares psychotherapeutic perspectives on the harm of Respectability and why it’s time to welcome a new era of Assertiveness Read More
Let’s say goodbye to respectability, and welcome assertiveness (Part 1)
Beth Collier shares psychotherapeutic perspectives on the harm of Respectability and why it’s time to welcome a new era of Assertiveness Read More
Documenting the undocumented: how the US-Mexico border shaped my mother’s life
Memoir and poetry by Saúl A. exploring his mother’s life experiences shaped by migration at the US-Mexico border Read More
Preventing forced marriage: shifting socio-cultural attitudes to create change
Professor Aisha K. Gill argues that more needs to be done to improve the efficacy of initiatives designed to protect those at risk of forced marriage @DrAishaKGill Read More
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