Autonomy, Anarchy, and Plastic Surgery
R.L Elson analyses the decisions, impacts, and outcomes of having cosmetic surgeries and procedures through the concepts of feminism, anarchy, and choice.
Critical Thought
The colonial breach and the colonial bind
Siraj Izhar explores the colonial imagination that drives the genocide in Gaza, and what underlies our difficulties of confronting it.
Don't let the wolf in the door: Electoral politics and fascism
Sam Lawton-Westerland considers the dilemmas that Western liberal politicians face once fascists have had their brief terms in office.
Those days
Writing from Vienna, Christopher Hütmannsberger grapples with the current state of confusion in the German-speaking Left around the genocide currently unfolding in Gaza, and argues that this is a litmus test for understanding how people respond to oppression.
Hope as a discipline
With the world in dire straits, R. L. Elson argues that hope as a practice is critical. It must be cultivated and it forms an unavoidable first stage of action.
Dogs of war
Understanding the police, military or prison dog as a form of legal terror. Many people of colour carry fear/trauma relating to a dog: why is that?
As Gaza is dying, we are dancing on mass graves
As we witness the unfolding genocide in Gaza, solidarity is essential. However, solidarity is a process, not a singular act. It involves both cultural and political forms of struggle. Above all, it requires confronting the overarching sense of impotence in the face of horror.