#Colonial

"Health is a human right"First, we have to consider who is included in (and reciprocally, excluded from) the category "human."Then, we have to interrogate whether "rights" are understood in terms
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Periodic reminder that George Orwell was an anti-communist snitch who wrote a list of people he suspected of being Communists (or Communist sympathisers) & gave it to the UK Government’s
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https://scholarstrikecanada.ca/ Scholars across Canadian universities are outraged at the relentless anti-Black police killings of Black people in the U.S. and in Canada. As athletes have done, so, too, must academics. We
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Farmer protests in Punjab about new laws that will destroy what's left of their livelihoodsThis all started with firstly diverting punjab river waters by laws by Indira Gandhi government in
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We are so thrilled to host this event to celebrate the work of Black economists, and challenge economics to do better on both racial inclusion within its ranks and the
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By deriding and jettisoning close reading as an old-school, formalist hangover - post-colonial and post-modern literary studies have led to a kind of blindness to *text*. People don't read texts
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Leftists need to understand how compromised by imperialiam international academic, NGO, press, and human rights orgs are. You shouldn't trust anyone about the global south just because they have a
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The replies to John Boyega’s (simple, sensible) tweets on racism indicate the need for a refresher on what racism even is, and why you can’t be racist to white people,
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On this day 150 years ago, Vladimir Lenin was born. One of the most influential figures in human history, Lenin led the world’s first successful communist revolution. His theories and
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I promised myself I wouldn't do this but:A major reason so many historical romances are whitewashed is because the minute you bring POC into your regency world, you have to
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Just reflecting on the colonial reality that the telephone was invented in Haudenosaunee territory, that one of the first languages spoken over the telephone was Kanien'kéha and here we are
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it’s important to put this in perspective: at the time, everyone (except Natives) thought genocide of Ntv communities had utterly and completely workedit was THE gold standard of genocide in
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One of the biggest con-games played on the Hindus is creating of a faux comparison between India and US. These two countries are nothing alike.India is now led by people
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It really is Mas outside. Turning over and pushing back on state imposed violence and order. Mas is about misconduct, a shedding of respectability, chaos, pandemonium, bacchanal in every sense
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*THREAD*Palestinians in Gaza face an escalating crisis while being faced with a global pandemic and limited resources under the Israeli blockade. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration has been busy normalizing Israel's
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01. Forgive me this last bit of self-promotion. My book, Civilizational Imperatives, is released today. It tells the story of the colonial encounter between Americans and the Moro peoples of
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