[Editors’ content warning: this article contains direct references to sexual assault, mental health issues, and drug use.] To put it briefly: Besides everything, the worst …
Reflections on @standrewssurvivors
‘If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one’-Stanley Tucci as lawyer Mitch Garabedian in Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, …
Magic Realism in the Age of Covid-19
You don’t need me to tell you, as so many news reporters, employers, business owners and governments have so often noted, that we are living …
The Appropriation of Magic: How White People Demonised Voodoo
Last summer I visited New Orleans, the home of Louisiana Voodoo. New Orleans is a city which has a whole tourism industry built on Voodoo, …
Patriarchy and Magic: Demonising Marginalised Bodies
“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of …
The Will to Change
As bell hooks puts it in The Will to Change, the political system in America is an “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy”. This also applies to …
How Can I Be Anti-Racist?
America, the black community, and humanity as a whole has suffered a number of great losses. The murders of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, …
Know your Place: Essays on the working class by the working class (ed) Nathan Connolly Dead Ink Books 2017
Ever felt nervous before a job interview, not because you think you are not skilled enough, but because you may not have the right clothes …