Riots and resentment: How racist elites exploit working class rage
We are living through history. As we saw in the 1980s and 2011, race riots have once again ambushed our high streets and our towns. Vulgar chants about...
Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy reinstated as Union President
Following an Appellate Board decision, Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy has been reinstated as Oxford Union President. This follows his election victory, disqualification by Tribunal, allegations of...
“I’m a Black lesbian feminist woman, who is absolutely in support and stands in solidarity with my trans siblings.”: In conversation with founder of...
Lady Phyll is a British political activist who advocates for racial, gender, and LGBTQ+ equality. She is a co-founder of UK Black Pride, a...
“They used greasepaint on me as a foundation”: In conversation with British actress Llewella Gideon
Llewella Gideon is a British actress, comedian and writer best known for Absolutely Fabulous, a TV series from 1992 to 2012, and The Little...
Music and Cosplay: In conversation with MAKO Girl and cosplayer, A-Ni Ochoa
Cosplay, a portmanteau of ‘costume play’, is an activity and performance art where in which participants wear costumes to represent a specific character. The...
Linguistic hypocrisy: Rhetoric on refugees
"Refugees are considered political problems; they are viewed as contentious, voter-dividing subjects"
What’s in a name? Buildings and the politics of nomenclature
Elena Rotzokou discusses the culture wars surrounding the naming (and renaming) of buildings in Oxford and beyond, and examines the meanings that these names carry.
Fringe or frontrunner? Eric Zemmour’s French Presidential candidacy explained
"Zemmour’s political ideologies is one of division, intolerance and discrimination, and his mere candidacy is a testimony of France’s fragile political landscape and its descent into populist demagogy."
‘Moral failure’ over Mosley Money
The fund, named after Max Mosley’s son Alexander, who died of a heroin overdose aged 39, is controversial due to its alleged connections to the Mosley family’s fascist past. Critics allege the fund is based upon the inheritance left by Max Mosley’s father, Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists and later the far-right Union Movement.
Dean of the Faculty of Law launches #RaceMeToo
Responses to #RaceMeToo have ranged from shock at her experiences to solidarity from non-BAME people. But mostly, what followed was recognition.
#StopAsianHate was long overdue
"Whether it be when going for a walk in the park or when doing the weekly supermarket shop, I felt a slight pang of fear whenever someone looked at me or approached me, scared of whatever prejudice my mere presence had ignited within them."
This is England: Football and the nation
The national team celebrated diversity, embraced difference, and spoke up for those facing oppression. But this fails to map onto society at large. They showed what Englishness and our idea of the nation could be, but not what it is. The ideal of England offered throughout this tournament was just that: an ideal, far removed from reality.
Precarity and prejudice: reflections from a Chinese student in Oxford
CW: Mentions of Racism.
"As a Chinese student in the West, I have found myself constantly caught in between the entanglement of racialized identities and international political battles."
Flair Donglai SHI reflects on prejudice in its different forms.
A View Into Both Worlds: Being Mixed-Race in Oxford
CW: Racism, mentions of violence
"Throughout my time in Oxford, people have blindly made jokes about the food I eat, my various foreign mannerisms, and other misplaced snubs at the expense of the Asian community. Maybe they thought I’d find them 50% funny. Maybe they didn’t care to realise they were not."