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A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...open to us, but one by one the doors were closed in our faces. In my opinion, what happened was the way of the judicial system making a clear statement, to make clear to Black people that in this country, that before the law, their lives were worth nothing”. The historicity of the stereotype of the Strong Black Mother – one who endures, one who does not feel pain or...
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...open up, to share painful or difficult experiences, while researchers get to keep their professional detachment, taking notes but never really exposing themselves to the same scrutiny, maintaining a ‘safe distance’ from that process. Autoethnography reverses this dynamic as it sees the researcher turn the ‘lens’ on themselves, recounting their own stories and...
Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation
History & The Arts

Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation

...open” to the West for less than a hundred years, and many old traditions still remained. ホームセンターで買ってきた寄せ植え用ミニ観葉植物を「美しいね・・・」と愛でる水木しげる。森の精のような1枚になりました! pic.twitter.com/sOeuVzIJ6f — 水木プロダクション (@mizukipro) September 30, 2015 Mizuki Shigeru...
How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...course, scenarios in which the use of one's legal name does increase accountability. Facebook has many reasons to stick with this policy, and this is one of them. But more than this, I believe the real name policy is about business. It would be unfeasible, with Facebook's terrifyingly large user base, for the company to check ID at the proverbial door, but not enforcing a...
Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...course, be about enjoyment and celebration and it affords many opportunities for the playful use of language whether in conversation, in a song or chant, or on a banner. It has the potential to create and foster bonds between people and within communities – or to claim particular identities, as in this example: [Liverpool banner reading 'We are not English, we are...
A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime

...course of nature can expect to see ALL the pantomimes in one season, but I hope to the end of my life I shall never forego reading about them in that delicious sheet of The Times which appears on the morning after Boxing-day. Perhaps reading is even better than seeing. The best way, I think, is to say you are ill, lie in bed, and have the paper for two hours, reading all...
England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses
History & The Arts

England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses

...course of English history. Battlefield Commemoration Battlefields have always been sites of commemoration. First, it was necessary to remember and honour the dead, on both sides, that had fallen there. Second, battlefields became sites of political and cultural importance where the legitimacy of the winning side, particularly during the Wars of the Roses, was established...
What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?
Society, Politics & Law

What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?

...course of that crime someone is murdered, the entire group can be convicted of murder regardless of who dealt the fatal blow. All that needs to be proven is that the individuals present foresaw that the murder might occur. Alexander, a social worker, had been out in West London when a confrontation between his friends and another group of youths turned violent. Though he...