These words came to mind today as I was processing various experiences of violence from men from childhood through to the present day. My Dad showed up in my dream which is a warning of a foreboding fight of some sort; as I understand it he is showing me his support and a ‘raw’ or […]
I am perplexed by the state of employment these days. Here is a piece of satire, which is actually an accurate summary according to my contracts, inspired by my own recent experiences. I wrote this on a temp job a few days after having the harrowing experience of being forced to take constructive dismissal after […]
Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
The last few years have witnessed a growing concern with the challenges that peoples of African heritage – whoI will define in this blog as Black peoples – face working and studying in the UK higher education system. Issues of the relative absence of Black people in influential positions have taken…
REPOST: “My Thing Is: I don’t really care what it’s called or how it’s covered. This priceless community gave me my first platform and inspired my career. BY: PERVIS TAYLOR III“ http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/03/black_twitter_changed_my_life.2.html
REPOST: A guide to manipulating bigotry to support an agenda, while insisting you didn’t mention race. BY JENÉE DESMOND-HARRIS http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2014/03/_racial_code_words_8_term_politicians_love.3.html
Warning: Some moaning How do new technologies affect how we sustain relationships, especially in relation to migrations, diasporas and community formation? Thoughts on Reading and Subsequent Discussion I was interested how the Tamil diaspora and people on the ground (particularly in the country where the war was happening) coordinated to become a credible source of […]
On reading an article about “intercultural food exhange”, I came across a part about working class British males’ consumption of curry and the idea of “conquering the chilli”; this entails ordering the hottest dish on the menu. “Conquering” with it’s links to colonialism, victory and conquest. This man consumes the overly hot food and he […]
I submitted to the Strangers Project, also with my little sister this autumn in Madison Square park, NY. There was a great story from a 9 year old which I read which was too hilarious, but there was lots of depressing miserable stuff which I came across so I was determined not to follow that […]
This week we looked at human trafficking. In the reading, the point of migrants as displaced peoples, (making rational decisions to migrate to work and better their situations obv) stuck with me; not from wars alone but in particular, those displaced by the liberalisation of the global market leading to loss of land, livelihood etc. […]
Last week we looked at the global city, I looked at the example of Nuyoricans and this relevant post from the You Don’t Look Latino blog appeared. Five Things About Latin America You Should Know by Dash Harris, director of Negro: A Documentary on Latina Identity (which I got two copies of as soon as […]
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