by Ruthie Walters Overseas volunteering has received a lot of attention in academia, in the media and on social media. Yet, the focus … More
Category: Representation
We tend to forget – people on the other side of the world
by Hannah Schwemin One year. A couple of months more. It has been one year and a couple of months … More
Sex Sells: Female Athletes’ Use of Instagram
by Lucy Shepherd We have all seen it, female athletes being used as sex objects to sell products, pictured on … More
White Saviours – Do They Really Matter?
by Anne-Meike Fechter Not least since the novelist Teju Cole launched a trenchant critique of what he called the ‘white … More
Becoming Human: Malala Yousafzai and the Politics of Representation
by Carlo Ceglia Malala. It is enough to say her first name. How did this 21-year-old Pakistani girl – the … More
“Red-carpet catholicism”: gendering the heavenly body
by Mac Spencer Three decades after the fallout from Like A Prayer, the relationship between pop culture and Catholicism seems … More
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
…May ’68, Nuit Debout and Romanticizing Struggles by Jade Ascencio In 2016, the Nuit Debout movement in Paris installed its … More
From the Field: Mfuwe, Zambia
by Esther Mulders For the past two years, I’ve been volunteering in Zambia with Studio Zambia, a Dutch non-profit organisation … More
Chivalry Isn’t Dead…But it Should Be?
By Jonny Craig Let’s begin with a scenario: It’s the end of his lunch hour, and Gary from IT is … More
Remembering Genocide in the Cambodian Diaspora
by Elisa Sandri ‘As the body moves where then does memory live?’ – Katharya Um For many Cambodians, the wounds … More
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