(like Islam), for example, has always been a force for repression whenever it holds any political or social sway - believing you have a direct line to god is a sure way of creating an authoritarian society. The Church has been a force of social repression, genocide, and the justification...
It is for this very reason that the definition of genocide in the UN genocide convention cannot be a very good definition of the phenomenon concerned. One could hardly argue that Raphael Lemkin – who originally proposed the term – or the various drafters of the convention, were somehow miracu...
was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night,"Khalil wrotein the March 18 letter, referring to the renewed attacks on Gaza after the collapse of the ...
Achiampong and Blandy’s films are calmly provocative, questioning the assumed authority and unacknowledged biases of scientific speculation and its pop-cultural residues.A Terrible Fiction(2019) recounts the unacknowledged importance of John Edmonstone, an enslaved Black man who taught Charles Darwin t...
(Hafner-BurtonCitation2008). When, however, looking at specific types of rights violations, transnational advocacy networks do seem to have the potential to reduce the severity of genocides through ‘naming and shaming’ tactics (DeMerittCitation2012; KrainCitation2012). The effectiveness of these ...
when Franklin Delano Roosevelt grew upwearing a dress, it was a totally acceptable practice. Up until the age of six, the dress Roosevelt is donning is considered gender-neutral. Now, to dress a male child as such is considered an act of sexual deviance performed by the Satan-fueled left...
racialized, classist, and misogynistic underpinnings of arguments for rape exemptions, abortion as holocaust/genocide, sex for procreation only, abstinence-only-until-marriage, and “right to conscience” clauses demonstrates a strong argument for embracing a reproductive justice approach to this incredibl...
In the process, they warred with other countries for territory and committed genocide against the indigenous peoples already living there. The raw materials found in these new territories offered seemingly limitless wealth for the colonizing nations. But millennia of learning to exploit raw material...
Maybe this is considered political to you but I can see you are trying to take things to a level that is very dangerous for us Syrians. Not only as Syrians but you are undermining the activist movements across the world by painting democracy as a political issue. Hence justice, equality,...
While the Gaza genocide continues, it feels trivial to discuss what’s happened this year in ELT, but here’s my personal take on how the year’s gone. Evan Frendo: “English for the Workplace” For me, the best event of 2023 was Evan Frendo’s Plenary, “English for the Workplace...