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CULTURE

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CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
Learning To Embrace My Nationality
Featured Artwork: Kalsang Tsultrim I remember my first day in primary school in Singapore. I was eight. I stood in front of…
YOUDON TENZIN
CULTURE, POLITICS
Between the World and Me: A book by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Featured Image: The Atlantic Have you ever felt fearful of your body growing up? Have you ever felt unsettled with your own…
USRAAT FAHMIDAH
CULTURE
How Colonialism Lives On
Featured Artwork: Hildibrand Colonial hangover is an extensively discussed subject in the subcontinent, with many of its educated elite openly denouncing it,…
ALIZAH HASHMI
CULTURE, POLITICS
Combating Anti-Black Racism Within Latinx Communities
Featured Artwork: Brittany Holloway As tensions erupt across the globe, the Latinx community has shown solidarity by demanding the end of racism…
MARIA ALONSO
CULTURE
Racism is the Tree and Colonialism are the Roots
Featured Artwork: Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga Colonialism, as summarised so easily by Google in one sentence, would be: The policy or practice of…
KEERTHI SHANGGAR
CULTURE, POLITICS
The Breath That Connects Us
Featured Artwork: Feroze Alam In the same week that George Floyd was so callously killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, I…
NADIA KAMIES
CULTURE
Liberatory Self-Care Means Unlearning: How Rest Can Help Heal Intergenerational Wounds
Unpacking racialized myths of the Sambo and the Strong Black Woman is essential spirit work to Black folks learning how to practice…
KRISTEN JERé
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Unusual Customs
Featured Artwork: Zoe Harveen Kaur bhabi, your daughter has a dull — she pauses for a moment and says — please don’t…
USRAAT FAHMIDAH
CULTURE
The Importance of Telling It as It Is
Featured Image: Aidan Un/The Philadelphia Inquirer Spoilers for Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay up ahead! . . . This pandemic,…
ANGEL MARTINEZ
CULTURE, POLITICS
On Being Black in America Amid Current Events
Featured Image: Hollie Adams for Teen Vogue Living while Black. That was the only crime many Black men committed before being brutally…
NA'ILAH WILLIAMS
CULTURE, POLITICS
Ava DuVernay’s “13th” Explained
Directed by Ava DuVernay, 13th is a documentary that explores the thirteenth amendment of the constitution. This 1965 amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude,…
HANNAH WYMAN
CULTURE, POLITICS
The Problem with Performative Activism
Featured Image: University Press On June 2, many awoke to black squares partnered with #BlackoutTuesday flooding their Instagram feeds. These posts came at the heels of…
HANNAH WYMAN

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