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The Public Intellectual Young people are taking to the streets across France, Italy, Belgium, India, Serbia, and Albania, refusing to surrender their…
Imagine a school where students become excellent human beings instead of excellent repositories of curriculum standards. Imagine a school where students, without…
Queer festivals are few and far between in West Africa. Those that afford the display of different media are even harder to…
To more and more people, the promises of sex-positive liberal feminism feel empty. The sexual ideas that have dominated feminism in the…
I came across a tweet recently that reads: “reminder that rape is used a weapon of war on a regular basis because…
Colombia’s constitution recognizes Black communities as collective rights-holders, but extractivism and dispossession have undermined those guarantees, inspiring people to build their own…
In a world where political life was increasingly dictated by Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and their political imitators, all champions of what…
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Iranian, Cuban, and Ukrainian women live in distinct political, historical, and social contexts, yet their experiences reveal important common challenges at the…
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