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#RHODESMUSTFALL: We can debate all we want but in the end, money talks

Challenging Oxford University's decision to keep a statue of Cecil Rhodes on display. 

After Brexit, I feel like a foreigner in my own country

A response to the wave of xenophobic attacks that followed the UK's decision to leave the European Union. 

'THE TURNER HOUSE' BY ANGELA FLOURNOY

A reflection on Angela Flournoy's debut novel and Zadie Smith's lyrical essay, 'What does soulful mean?' 

'Leonora: A Novel' By Elena Poniatowska

Echoing Leonora Carrington’s belief that she was a hybrid, ‘a mare riding through the night,’ this novel/ biography defies fixed boundaries.   

INTERVIEWS

Banned from school, Nearly forced into marriage: how apeksha is fighting for gay pride in nepal

“In Nepali society, women are still taken as second class citizens,” said Apeksha, a 22-year old activist working to promote gender equality and LGBT rights in Nepal. “That’s why lesbians face double discrimination — we’re women and LGBT.”

this woman's invention means no girl will have to miss school because of her period

When Trinitas  first started her period, she had no idea what was happening. Like many girls around the world, menstruation came as a shock when she hit puberty.