The West, FIFA and Us: We're all being hypocritical about the World Cup
Pro-migrant, anticolonial discourse has been weaponised to support Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup
1y ago
Mermaids aren’t real, and neither is race
Our current conceptualisation of race derives heavily from the last couple centuries of European imperialism.
1y ago
Declan Walsh's 'The Nine Lives of Pakistan': A journalist explains the country that banished him
In the middle of an Islamabad night, just before the Pakistan election of 2013, the Irish journalist Declan Walsh was visited by “angels”.
2y ago
An anarchist retelling of Tintin
The globetrotting hero-reporter, he of the blonde quiff and the plus four trousers, had many an adventure throughout a 46-year-long run under
2y ago
Revisiting the only book written by an Indian about the Indian soldiers of WWI
Tens of thousands of men sailed across the ocean to a land they’d never before heard the name of. They fought long and hard, in the world’s
3y ago
The Dead Can’t Dance
The death’s head is panther-stalking her through the party. Bodies washed in neon pink ebb and flow, sinking and rising from the shadows as light thrums.
4y ago
The trap of Re-Orientalism
“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” wrote Rudyard Kipling, a man with a silly name who only had a career because West met East and immediately mugged it, running off with wallet, shoes and pants. Through Kipling’s pen, the British
4y ago
December 1, 2022
The West, FIFA and Us: We're all being hypocritical about the World Cup
Pro-migrant, anticolonial discourse has been weaponised to support Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup
October 11, 2022
Mermaids aren’t real, and neither is race
Our current conceptualisation of race derives heavily from the last couple centuries of European imperialism.
June 3, 2021
Declan Walsh's 'The Nine Lives of Pakistan': A journalist explains the country that banished him
In the middle of an Islamabad night, just before the Pakistan election of 2013, the Irish journalist Declan Walsh was visited by “angels”.
May 6, 2021
An anarchist retelling of Tintin
The globetrotting hero-reporter, he of the blonde quiff and the plus four trousers, had many an adventure throughout a 46-year-long run under
October 1, 2020
Revisiting the only book written by an Indian about the Indian soldiers of WWI
Tens of thousands of men sailed across the ocean to a land they’d never before heard the name of. They fought long and hard, in the world’s
November 22, 2019
The Dead Can’t Dance
The death’s head is panther-stalking her through the party. Bodies washed in neon pink ebb and flow, sinking and rising from the shadows as light thrums.
August 23, 2019
The trap of Re-Orientalism
“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” wrote Rudyard Kipling, a man with a silly name who only had a career because West met East and immediately mugged it, running off with wallet, shoes and pants. Through Kipling’s pen, the British
July 26, 2019
World’s marrow
The old demon king was named Jael and he had a hunger for meat.
July 5, 2019
Fossil fuels spark wars and create migrants. Are renewables better?
There is a concept called the Resource Curse. Countries with high quantities of natural resources such as oil and certain minerals have
June 14, 2019
Islamophobia is the New Black
Burmese State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi’s recent partnering with Hungarian PM Viktor Orban appears at first blush to be the
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