I’ve been traveling so I haven’t managed to sit down and write this post until now. On the way to Istanbul I saw a picture on my FB timeline of what looked like a black woman cake. I opened it and found this image: At first I thought it was some kind of big joke. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘racism’
The Female Circumcision Cake
Posted in Colonialism, Culture, Europe, Neo-colonialism, Racism, tagged Female Cicumcision, racism, Sweden on April 21, 2012 | 18 Comments »
The F-word…again
Posted in Feminism, Gender, Intersectionality, Islamophobia, Neo-colonialism, Racism, Sexism, tagged Feminism, Intersectionality, Islamophobia, racism on May 19, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Jehanzeb at Muslim Reverie has just written another brilliant blog post. (I seriously want to marry this guy; if you’re reading this, yes it’s an official proposal ) I see all of these reactions as dismissing a disturbing reality about racial hierarchy, white “privilege” and power, interlocking oppression, power relations between the West and Muslim-majority [...]
Athens
Posted in Europe, Islamophobia, Racism, tagged Athens, Greece, Islamophobia, racism on May 18, 2011 | 20 Comments »
I just got back from a study trip to Athens, Greece, and it was definitely an interesting experience. Although my specialization is gender, the trip ended up being more about migration and race-relations in Greece. Before we went there, we had no idea that Greece is having a huge immigration problem. Some things we found [...]
Islamophobia in Europe
Posted in Europe, Islam, Islamophobia, Neo-colonialism, Racism, tagged Europe, Islam, Islamophobia, racism on April 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
There is little doubt that Islamopobia is rife in Europe, a continent that only 60 years ago was host to the worst genocide in human history, shocking in both scale and execution. Today, one by one European countries are electing far-right parties into parliament and presidential office, and Muslims and other non-white Europeans are finding [...]
Psychological colonialism
Posted in America, Global, Neo-colonialism, Psychology, tagged America, media, Psychology, racism on April 3, 2011 | 5 Comments »
One of the major ways in which colonialism has continued to exist in our world today is through the mind. It is unbelievable the way the global system(s) have been moulded to produce peoples who think they are organized in a hierarchy. The media, capitalism, international relations, consumerism, heteronormativity, racism – all of these have [...]
