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To the Xenophobic Gardener
An Open Letter to my Xenophobic Gardener My parents hired you, a gardener – a family friend – to do some work on their patch. You visit...
Jun 20, 20216 min read
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American Dirt
Normally, I would save my discussion of any books that I’ve read for my end-of-month roundup of my reading. I thought, however, that this...
Apr 25, 20216 min read
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Climate Colonists
If you have read any of the rest of my blog, you will know that I'm forever interested in how seemingly ‘different’ subject areas...
Apr 18, 20215 min read
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Whose Narrative Is it Anyway?
Returning to the idea of the danger of a single story On Friday evening I watched Argo for the first time. (Yes, I am nearly always late...
Apr 11, 20214 min read
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What's with the flags?
This week, we all breathed a sigh of relief as the Tories announced that all government buildings (with local councils urged to follow...
Mar 27, 20213 min read
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The last thing we need is more police
I was listening to a podcast last week called Commons People, which is a UK politics and current affairs podcast. On last week’s episode,...
Mar 21, 20213 min read
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Postimperial Melancholia
Something that I enjoyed about my degree was not only the books, plays, and poems that I read, but the social, cultural,...
Mar 14, 20215 min read
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Oil, Carnival, and Calypso In Trinidad
My previous blog post in this series discussed a topic that I learned about through a module at university called Resource Fictions: Oil...
Mar 7, 20215 min read
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My English degree helped me learn about Canada's not-so-rosy racial history
If I were to make you guess the identity of a charming, fairly youthful, liberal, handsome world leader, who comes to mind? If you...
Feb 14, 20214 min read
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Minority Rules
I recently came to a revelation, a different perspective. (I might note that many others have probably come to this conclusion far before...
Jan 24, 20213 min read
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Trump Isn't Leaving
He can stay, he can go. He can be impeached, or voted out in 2020. But removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire...
Nov 14, 20204 min read
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I'm Fed Up of the Arts Being Sidelined
I recently heard that my old dance teacher from school is looking for past students to make videos stating how dance positively affected...
Oct 24, 20203 min read
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The Big Immigration Debate: An Emotional Politics
This was another one I had published through Twentysomething News. In this article I write about the divisive rhetoric of the UK's...
Oct 7, 20201 min read
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Can technology ever be neutral? Channel 4's expose of the 2016 Trump campaign suggests otherwise.
Channel 4's expose of the 2016 Trump campaign has revealed that a disproportionate number of black voters were categorised as...
Sep 29, 20204 min read
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"I'm SO glad it's not like that over here": The Pitfalls of British Racial Discourse.
As this was a longer and more challenging piece, I decided to have it published via Twentysomething News, who helped me with the editing...
Sep 23, 20201 min read
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COVID19 and 'common sense'.
As COVID chaos begins to reign again, we brace ourselves for the shudder-inducing thought of a winter lockdown. The contradictory nature...
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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Promoted beyond my abilities?
Today, I feel deeply sad for A-level students receiving their results. As someone who, even 6 years later, remains proud of the hard work...
Aug 13, 20202 min read
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