Digital Divisions
In the search to close the digital divide, which has been even more exposed since the COVID-19 pandemic, the insights […]
This safety asphyxiates us: The banal border in Barcelona
Last month, while in Spain, we woke up to the news that local residents in the Canary Islands were planning
Cape Town through Time and Space: An Experimental Poem
Part 1: 1921 “Poison Tea, Colonial Imports”, by an Observer “Them nasty Malays can make it work months after
The Montanelli Case: Sexuality, Race, and Colonial Forgetting in BLM Italy.
Indro Montanelli (1909-2001), the most famous journalist in Italian history, is an intellectual figure whose memory commands respect across Italy’s
Call for Reviews: Black Lives Matter
The brutal murder of George Floyd on 25 May 2020 has once again revealed the terrifying fissures that cut across
Race-Blind: Rethinking a French-American Conversation
You don’t waste your energy fighting the fever; you must only fight the disease. And the disease is not racism.
Coronavirus: Less Humanitarianism, More Politics!
This essay was written seated on my couch, trying to make sense of the contemporary ‘state of emergency’ as the
Glimpses of Life in Indefinite Debt in the Czech Republic
“I can only work cash-in-hand [načerno] for the rest of my life,” Nina[1] told me as we were sitting in
Jair Bolsonaro and Affirmative Action: Political Rupture or Escalation?
On October 8, 2018, the day after the first round of the Brazilian presidential elections, I exchanged several worried whatsapp
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
“Tuesday 8:30 – Good morning circle 9:00 – I’m raising the children you have forgotten. 10:15 – And you