What Is Effeminacy and How Can We Celebrate It?
Mainstream society's conception of what it means to be a man leaves no room for the celebration and cherishing of a more feminine kind of manhood.
Tag: Race
Should We Trust a “woke” Theresa May on Race?
Ash Sarkar assesses May’s pledge to release data on the racial pay gap, and explains why austerity is an anti-racist issue.
Unsettling Feminism and the Politics of the Prison Break: Ash Sarkar In Conversation with Alana Lentin
As part of our week-long Women's Strike focus, Novara Media Senior Editor Ash Sarkar interviews political sociologist and social theorist Alana Lentin about racialised exclusions from femininity and strategies for unsettling the existing social order.
It’s Political Blackness Gone Mad!
This week Ash Sarkar is joined by Wail Qasim and Reni Eddo-Lodge to discuss the politics of blackness, and how the global phenomenon of racism finds purchase in locally specific ways.
Back on the Line: Remembering Grunwick 40 Years On
40 years later, workers, writers and politicians remember the historic 2 year strike led primarily by South-Asian film processing workers at the Grunwick Lab in Dollis Hill, North-west London. How did Grunwick pave the way for further suppression of trade unions and independent worker organisation?
Reducing ‘Drop-Out’ Rates for Black Students Means Institutional Transformation, Not Individual Support
Black students are 50% more likely to drop out of university than their peers, but as long as solutions are geared towards individual ‘support’, the government’s commitment to racial equality remains superficial.
UK Black Lives Matter Activists #Shutdown the M4
This morning, UK Black Lives Matter activists blocked off the M4 towards Heathrow airport in protest at deaths in police custody and the racism of borders. Ash Sarkar reports.
‘They kill us because they see that we were never alive anyway’ – Black Lives Matter in the UK
Wail Qasim on why the Black Lives Matter movement, which began in North America, has a lot to add to ongoing struggles on the other side of the Atlantic.
4 Reasons Why #RhodesMustFall in Oxford – and Everywhere Else
Following a huge campaign to remove a statue of the colonialist Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College, Oxford, leaked documents show the college has caved to donors threatening to withdraw their money. Of course, the campaign is about far more than the statue.
#BlackLivesMatter: Race and Resistance in the UK
Ash Sarkar is joined by Adam Cooper, Ashok Kumar and London Black Dissidents as they discuss racist policing and immigration policy in the UK.
8 Reasons the Curriculum is White
Following a recent survey by the NUS Black Students' campaign which demonstrated a commonly felt Eurocentric bias, a collective of students have been taking a sustained look at the omnipresent phenomenon of the 'white curriculum'.
#FergusonToLondon
On this week's show James Butler and Aaron Bastani are joined by Wail Qassim as they discuss racist policing both sides of the Atlantic.
On Ferguson, Black Lives and Solidarity: An Open Letter
As demonstrations and resistance demanding justice for Michael Brown sweep the US, Wail Qasim offers thoughts on the importance black lives, international solidarity and the police.
12 Books White People Should Read in Preparation for Becoming a Minority in Britain
Recent research suggesting that by 2066 white people will be an ethnic minority in Britain has caused a storm in the right-wing press. Here's a short reading list to help the white-dominated left prepare to fight capitalism from their new societal position.
3 Things About the Struggle for a Police-Free New York
Almost as soon as the NYPD launches its #myNYPD twitter campaign, thousands take to the net sharing their experiences of police violence and racism. Almost as soon as floods of police victims take to the internet, the mainstream media guffaws over the 'PR disaster'. Meanwhile, the New York anti-police movement is in motion.
4 Thoughts on ‘Brixton Unite’ and the Policing of Gentrification
Yesterday saw 'Brixton Unite' - a multi-agency police operation - take place in Brixton. While the claim by local government and the Metropolitan Police is that the operation was a response to 'gang crime', for many it is emblematic of the politics and management of gentrification: economic and social cleansing, racist policing, and the dispossession of urban space.
“No Justice, No Peace”: How Did The Duggan Inquest Get It So wrong?
On this week's show Aaron Bastani is joined by Nina Power as they discuss the conclusions of the recent inquest into the killing of Mark Duggan. How did the jury get it so wrong?