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Contesting Culture: England Is in the Midst of an African Renaissance – but...
“To be born English was to have won first prize in the lottery of life,“ declared rampant imperialist Cecil Rhodes at the turn of the twentieth century. As for who the British mining magnate thought...
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What About the White Working Class?
Has the idpol-loving left abandoned the white working class? The answer is a bit more complicated than the Tories would have you think.
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We Can’t Dismantle Capitalism Without Antiracist Solidarity
I grew up identifying as politically Black. My folks were born in India and Burma, in the dying days of empire, and felt a kinship with colonised and occupied people across the world, from Ireland to...
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Dave’s Latest Album Demands That Black British Music Be Taken Seriously
We’re All Alone In This Together, British rapper Dave’s recent chart-topping album, makes a compelling case for why Black British music should be treated with the same intellectual rigour as the great...
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Worldmaking in Peterborough: How Battles Over England Are Rooted in Place
In a Twitter post following the torrent of racist abuse after England’s defeat in the European Championships final this summer, footballer Marcus Rashford made a powerful reference to place. “I’m...
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Coronavirus Isn’t Going Anywhere
As governments across the world respond to the discovery of the new, potentially vaccine-evading Omicron variant of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, two facts are being drummed home. First, that Covid-19 is now a...
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Navigating Sex and Desire Is a Headfuck When You’re Black, Disabled and a Woman
Our ideas surrounding desire, flirtation, dating, sex and consent are all affected – and sometimes wholly determined – by external references. Representation plays a key role in how humans formulate...
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The British Empire Wasn’t Just About Race
In recent years, there has been an attempt to draw a stark line between people who care about race and empire, and people who care about the communities that have been economically “left behind” in...
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How Racism Affects Our Sex Lives
Does love transcend everything? What does it mean to fall in love in an unequal world? Dalia Gebrial looks at how race shapes our experiences of sex and desire, and asks: what would it take to create...
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On the Frontiers of Deviance
If we don’t believe that race is a scientific fact, why can’t we shake it off? The answer, according to Sita Balani, has to do with how race is made through sexuality, and sexuality through race – like...
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