The Fightback May 2025 Part I: Emerging from Historical Erasure
This months blog begins a series explores some of the more subtle aspects of fascism, whilst looking at how we might resist its rise across the world. This month, we consider Historical Erasure.
Decolonise This XI: The Colonisation of Soul Food
In conjunction with the latest book, it is worth considering the many diverse ways we are colonised. One of the more obvious, yet subtle, ways is with food. This month’s brief blog asks us to all consider this relationship to food.
Fascism Rising: Invisiblising the Other
Well. It’s here. Fascism is alive and well in the Global North. And we have welcomed it into our world again. This month’s blog asks us to face up to our own responsibilities for its rise, and questions what we might do to counter it.
Hope
These are dark times culturally.
I feel as it would be an avoidance to not acknowledge this. Times which might feel distressing to many, including myself.
So, this month’s blog asks the question; is there hope? And if so, where is it?
The Dark Knight Rises: Black Existential Anxiety in the age of Trump
trump will be president again. Yet the repercussions for persons of difference will not just be felt in the USA, but also across the world. Using a black existential focus, this blog is therefore a message for all the artists. It is a call to arms!
Existential Intersections on Death
This month’s blog is the first of a series of explorations on existential themes through an intersectional lens. An opening gambit, this consideration of the theme of death, raises some interesting ideas as to how death appears for the Other
Decolonise This X: The WhiteLash Summer of 2024
What sort of summer have you had? For minorities, this last summer has been particularly challenging. This blog speaks to some of these challenges, and asks the reader to weigh up how much ‘rest’ they have had during this period.
Election Day 2024
These past 24hours have seen a seismic shift in the political landscape here in the United Kingdom. Written over this period, I therefore wanted to add some personal psychological perspectives on the meaning of this political change. Whilst sounding a note of caution for the future.
The Politics of Supremacy: Feeling the Fourteen
On the 4th of July 2024, the United Kingdom goes to the polls in its General Election. This blog though, looks at the past 14 years through the lens of race, and asks us all to consider the pain we have endured during this period.
Decolonise This IX: The Existential Loneliness of the Other
In a world which valorises individuality, loneliness is an experience many of us have endured, be it on purpose or as a consequence of something other.
Written over two days in May, this month I consider the existential and spiritual segue between loneliness and being alone.