This article intends to be a companion to my work ‘Modern Prayers’ commissioned by Out and About: Queering the Museum at RAMM, Exeter, 2021.More
Category Archives: General Politics
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I firmly believe that polling should not be something made difficult for the average person to understand and critique. More
Decolonising Universities and Life
Universities instil a confidence in knowledge, but when the knowledge draws only from one type of background you don’t actually get a high quality education.More
Comments on Identity and Success in a Fractured World
At some point if you are a member of a minority you will bump up against some elements which serve to make the biased structure of the world visible to you. More
Marginal No More; Reflections on the 2017 UK General Election and Polling
It’s a huge problem on the left, but also just with politics in general, that we think optimism is the sign of stupidity. More
An Election Abroad: GE2017
Watching your country’s election from abroad is an interesting experience.More
How We Communicate With Abominable Ideas
Perhaps the key flaw in a lot of liberal thinking is the idea that concepts we find repulsive will remain fringe if we allow the ideologies to talk themselves out of existence. More
Beyond Scare Tactics
A lot of people believe it is better to have a chance in power than to remain in opposition and therefore these tactics may be undesirable but ultimately worth it. More
Thoughts About Stigma
Six ago I remember going on a class trip to an orphanage. In the middle of group-play with the children a young boy was singled out by a nurse. She said that he was HIV+, and suddenly a wealth of blank space opened up around him as people rapidly moved away. He sat in the…More
Sorrow for Paris, France, and Everyone Everywhere
Time has shifted how terrorism operates, now designed in the West to generate maximum hysteria and misinformation. More
Rushaa Louise Hamid 