By Kristi Greenwood, BA Japanese ‘Hyper-individualism’ is the concept being promoted under the disguise of ‘self-care’ by influencer after influencer online. The inherited belief is that being kind doesn’t get you anywhere. A sign of… Read More »Main Character Syndrome
By Barty Roberts, SOAS News Editor There seems to be an ever-growing chasm between the students and management at SOAS. Nothing encapsulates this more than SOAS investing more than £2 million in companies that support… Read More »SOAS’ Confused Management
By Hodan Sultan, BA History of Art and History White Feminism does not represent me, but I have been conditioned to think that it does. I went to an all-girls state school where we constantly… Read More »White Feminism and Modern-Day Perceptions of Girlhood
By Amran Abdiqadir-Mohamed, BA Global Development and Social Anthropology “Boycotts don’t work…I’m just one person so it won’t make a difference…Well the shop has already bought it, so I’m not changing anything.” These are all… Read More »Boycotts: Your Power, Your Purse, Our Liberation
By Aminah Hashmi, BA Politics and International Relations We remember the Windrush scandal as the moment when the consequences of the ‘hostile environment’ immigration policies of the Tory government were pushed to the headlines in… Read More »Forgetting Windrush: The Quiet Violence of British Immigration Policy
By Aiesha Akenzua, Opinions Section Editor Opportunity for Black models within the modelling industry has been a persistent topic in the media for decades. In an industry seemingly built for the Kate Mosses and Cindy… Read More »Strike a Pose: The Manipulation of Black Models