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‘The English have won in the lotto of life" - aren't we all English now? The coast is great 'cos our cots were in it, our passport as good as it got. Now someone else wins the lot. ‘ Jay Bernard, New-CAR-SIL and unironically pronouncing grass like arse - this blog post explores the crude stereotypes levelled against Northerners.

From civil rights to honour-based violence, this blog looks into the emancipatory benefits of literature, with a VAWG resource list.

Drugs are controversial. This post examines more.

“Britain needs to acknowledge that its historical roots concerning racism are beginning to show, when the dismantling of such representations of hate start to become appropriated by conservatives and the alt-right, in pursuit of their, often, misguided agendas”

“Representative can be reductive, due to the discrepancy between representation and presentation of the borderline experience. Representation can be affirming, but presentation can have reductive qualities”.

“For change to truly occur we must begin changing narratives and educating people about why our histories and class inequalities have led to the prevalent nature of colourism within modern MENA societies”