A collection of 157 posts
When British sculptor Thomas J Price explains that his “strategy of inclusion” will counter the “endless stream of limiting tropes and identities for Black people,” he is inadvertently mimicking totalitarian injunctions.
Nikkitha Bakshani’s debut novel ‘Ghost Chilli’ is an ideologically confused work that seems to endorse the racial essentialism it purports to satirise.
Some rarely discussed phenomena can shed light on why the focus on identity and introspection has coincided with a rise of mental health issues, including identity disorders.
With ‘The End of Race Politics,’ Coleman Hughes enters the ranks of the most mature and sophisticated analysts of the all-American skin game.
Societies may improve, but protesters’ arguments remain the same.
The author’s widely celebrated 2013 novel, ‘The Orenda,’ helped educate Canadians about their country’s colonial roots. It shouldn’t be cast into literary oblivion just because Boyden misrepresented his ancestry.
Nina Power’s new book is fraught with contradictions and ideological incoherence.
So long as Hoover’s scholarship has met the standards expected of her, it is not clear that she’s done anything wrong.
If we are going to expend so much effort on the topic of gender and sexual identity, we should be clear and rigorous in how we think about it.
The emerging racial state promises no real progress for most minorities while deepening ethnic divides and undermining the basis for democratic self-rule.
Sanctioned racial essentialism for Aboriginals, mandatory multiculturalism for everyone else.
Rejection may sting. But it’s not the same as being ripped off.
Sight and Sound’s 2022 poll is a sign of the times.
Gay identities are based on biological sex; gender identities erase biological sex and replace it with gender.
Those fighting for social change today would do well to heed Bayard Rustin’s advice about how to build sustainable and effective political movements.