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A 21st Century Problem – Maintaining ‘A Room of One’s Own’
Yasmyn Shaikh takes Virginia Woolf's room of one's own into the 21st century, where debt and precarity make creative space ever harder to keep.
/ Yasmyn Shaikh
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Women in a Wasteland – George Miller’s ‘Mad Max’
Anthony Laurence on the Mad Max franchise, whose gasoline-soaked masculinity gives way to Furiosa and the women of Fury Road's wasteland.
/ Anthony Laurence
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Will You Be Arrested For Reading This?
Jeffrey Hernandez reads the 2015 Counter-Extremism Bill and Cameron's vow that obeying the law will no longer keep the state out of your life.
/ ZOD Culture
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The Female Gaze, Women Viewing Sexualised Women
Nineteen13 founder Emily Hoyle challenges the assumption that sexualised images of women exist for men, exploring the female gaze in media.
/ Emily Hoyle
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Would you shoot the president?
Would you shoot the president to stop a nuclear strike? Elijah Joshua Pryor dissects the dilemma and what such questions reveal about morality.
/ Elijah Joshüa Pryor
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The systematic sexual abuse of young girls
The Independent Inquiry CSE into Rotherham revealed that approximately 1400 children were sexually exploited in the borough situated in the South of Yorkshire.
/ Emily Hoyle
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Dear College Kids, Would You Listen to Samantha White?
Aryanna Prasad watches Dear White People as a biracial student and asks whether Justin Simien's satire can make America talk honestly about racism.
/ Aryanna Prasad
Politics Self & Society
The Female Gaze, Women Viewing Sexualised Women
Emily Hoyle asks why women look at sexualised women, from lingerie campaigns to magazine covers aimed at a female, not male, audience.
/ Emily Hoyle
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Genocide begins with the Silence of the World
Zekarias Kebraeb is a human being who can fly because he has wings in his soul. To us Zekarias Kebraeb is an immigrant. Just an immigrant.
/ Benjamin Eli Levine
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‘no Justice, no Peace’ in a white supremacist capitalist patriarchy
Benjamin Eli Levine traces 'no justice, no peace' from Rodney King to Mike Brown through bell hooks' white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
/ Benjamin Eli Levine
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The Very Direct Democracy
When UKIP backed referendums and recallable MPs, Dave Martin asked what direct democracy would really deliver for voters and the working class.
/ Dave Martin
Self & Society
The New Great Migration: From the Furnaces to the Basketball Court
Via Alfredo Vea's gods go begging, Jeremy Barras follows the new Great Migration from the furnaces to basketball courts sold as escape routes.
/ Jeremy Barras
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From the Depths of a Melting Pot into the Circles of a Neoliberal Inferno: Part I
Benjamin Eli Levine maps how neoliberal ideology and identity politics atomise us into cells of a panopticon while claiming to set us free.
/ Benjamin Eli Levine
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Vince Gilligan’s ‘Breaking Bad’ – is it the greatest television show of all time?
Anthony Laurence weighs Breaking Bad against television's best and asks whether Vince Gilligan's meth-lab tragedy is the greatest show ever made.
/ Anthony Laurence
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Tom Johnson & Jack Eden's Another Britain Project
What makes you British? Does being of an ethnic minority make you less British? How about your religious beliefs? How has Britain's national identity changed?
/ Orsod Malik