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Discover how British colonisation mirrors the toxic dynamics of a patriarchal family. Can we break free?
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Sep 16
Uncomfortable Truths: An Imperial Election
This article challenges the U.S. political system, urging us to confront uncomfortable truths about both parties.
Aug 20
Queering the Asylum System
In 2015, former UK Shadow Immigration Minister, Chris Bryant, proclaimed that asylum cases for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity...
Aug 13
“Heart Break of Borneo” by Elroy Ramantan
“Heart Break of Borneo” draws its title from the “Heart of Borneo” initiative, a conservation promise by Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia...
Aug 12
THE OPPRESSOR WITHIN: Beyond an Israel-Palestine case study
True liberation means more than dismantling external systems of power; instead we must confront and heal the internalised oppression within.
Jul 30
Quiet, please! How museums are responding to cultural genocide in Gaza.
Museums' selective activism on decolonisation ignores Palestine's cultural destruction, showing the need for genuine, present-day action.
Jun 10
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse: Understanding and contextualising violence
Do we truly understand what it means to be violent, and the different forms of violence that can exist?
Apr 1
Addressing Ayahuasca’s history of Western extraction and exploitation
Ayahuasca has captured the world’s fascination – for better or worse. The name of this shamanic brew (also known as caapi, or yagé)...
Feb 22
The Creator’s Law: A Call To Repair Democracy
By Yoli Maya Yeh Yoli Maya Yeh is a Healer and Educator in Comparative Religions and Global Studies. She works at the intersection of...
May 19, 2023
When I knew I was black
Toluse: A common sentiment amongst my fellow Nigerians is this idea that they did not know they were black until they moved to a...
May 9, 2023
The Lasting Legacy of Colonial Economics.
The Lasting Legacy of Colonial Economics: How Outdated Ideologies Continue to Shape Modern Capitalism and Erode the Middle Class As the...
Apr 7, 2023
Society’s Hatred for Confident Black Women and Queer Peoples and Why RESIST
Why we choose to be FULL OF OURSELVES. Hey DT family, it's been a while since we wrote to y’all and we wanted to change that. What...
Aug 25, 2022
Not too young to run
Four years don waka but here I am in the same place. Against themselves, my thoughts still race in the region of my mind. But who I am...
Jul 11, 2022
How many times?
Home no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well your...
Jul 11, 2022
Rejection of the Polity: An Opposition to the gatekeepers of “Reality”.
The stories told of how votes don’t count, of how a group of maniacal old men seat in a dark room pulling the strings of the political...
Jul 1, 2022
Consent in the everyday
I read The Purity Myth years ago. Sometime between the ages of 16 and 19, Jessica Valenti put a name to the not-so-distant phenomenon I...
May 24, 2022
Decolonising Love
Decolonization is about understanding that our realities, and everything we consider the norm and acceptable, are made up by...
Apr 20, 2022
Puff Puff Pass- the racist propaganda and unjust criminalisation of cannabis
Kush, Maryjane, Reefer, Pot, and Grass are a few of the many names for the controversial drug cannabis. For some, cannabis is a Godsend,...
Mar 29, 2022
What is a Man/Woman? Dismantling the binary.
This article is mainly a compilation of works and essays from Alok Vaid Menon. I cringe and flinch every time I hear statements like “be...
Mar 7, 2022
The Hypocrisy of the West in Ukraine.
“They seem so like us. That is what makes it so shocking. War is no longer something visited upon impoverished or remote populations. It...
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