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Articles by Ché Ramsden
British academia's colourblind problem: an interview with Dr Nicola Rollock
Dr Nicola Rollock is Deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Race & Education at the University of Birmingham. She is Editor of the journal Whiteness and Education and lead author of the award-winning book The Colour of Class: the educational strategies of the Black middle classes (2015). Nicola was recently selected as winner of the 2016 PRECIOUS Award for Outstanding Woman in Professional Services for contributions to race equality.
No Women’s Day without refugee women
Hand-in-hand with Trump, Theresa May is not merely playing to an anti-migrant populist crowd but helped to create it. This system is working as intended, but it must be disrupted. On International Women’s Day, 8th March 2017, the UK’s current Chancellor of the Exchequer will deliver his first Spring Budget. Philip Hammond, who has been in post since July 2016, will carry a scarlet briefcase and hold it aloft outside 11 Downing Street for photographers.
Trump's slap in the face of Lady Liberty
Will women be turned away from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, to be held in March, in New York? The world's global institutions must fight the 'Muslim Ban', starting with the United Nations. On November 9th as the dust settled and we took in the Republican victory in the US elections, I hugged my daughter and told her, “WE will be ok. WE will be safe.” I reminded her that as a child I had lived through the Iranian revolution, where we had seen our lives upended.
After the London Women's March: what now?
In London as across the world, a Women’s March was organised in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington. Taking place the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as US President, the marches are an expression of outrage at the unabashed misogyny and hatred that Trump has espoused and risen from. It is estimated that 100,000 people took part in London; double what the organisers were expecting.
America - are you woke?
An estimated 150,000 people turned out for the march on Saturday 21 January in San Francisco despite the pouring rain – one of 673 marches reported to have taken place in the US. No, not a line of dialogue from a post-dystopian feminist novel, but a tongue-in-cheek question at a pre-Women’s March screen-printing party. Stylised wombs, some designed with the word ‘uterati’ emblazoned across them, were the order of the day.
Internet politics: a feminist guide to navigating online power
Recognising the political importance of our technical decisions is within reach, leading ultimately to reclaiming power and control of our activism in the digital sphere as well as in the offline world. In feminist activism, it goes without saying that the personal is political. Our technical decisions, however, are subject to far less scrutiny but their effects have equally far-reaching consequences upon our activism. Few would deny that control and power are feminist issues.
Internet politics: a feminist guide to navigating online power
Recognising the political importance of our technical decisions is within reach, leading ultimately to reclaiming power and control of our activism in the digital sphere as well as in the offline world. In feminist activism, it goes without saying that the personal is political. Our technical decisions, however, are subject to far less scrutiny but their effects have equally far-reaching consequences upon our activism. Few would deny that control and power are feminist issues.
To build feminist futures, suspend judgment!
As feminist thinkers and activists, we must tackle not only the systemic discrimination embedded in the world outside, but the often unconscious or invisible biases that we ourselves have internalized. The recently concluded 13th AWID International Forum, on the theme “Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice”, was framed around the sweeping idea that realizing “feminist futures” is only possible if we build our collective power to advance rights and justice.
Glass ceilings and Cinderella slippers: why the centre cannot hold
The AWID Forum in Brazil this year provided a model for rejecting the journey from the margin to the mainstream. Instead it explored a feminist future based on the ‘politics of friendship’. This article is part of 50.50's in-depth coverage of the 2016 AWID Forum held on 8th -11th September 2016 in Bahia, Brazil. This year, the year the United States of America may elect its first female president, we will hear more about glass ceilings than perhaps any other time.
Imagine a feminist village of the future
On the last day of the AWID International Forum in Brazil, more than two thousand women came together to help imagine a feminist future, and to look at the hard realities of getting there. This article is part of 50.50's in-depth coverage of the 2016 AWID Forum being held on 8th -11th September in Bahia, Brazil. The final morning plenary transcended all expectations.
On freeing Kenya's pastoralist communities from discrimination
This article is part of 50.50's in-depth coverage of the 2016 AWID Forum being held on 8th -11th September in Bahia, Brazil. Justine N. Leisiano was one of the first people I met at the 13th AWID International Forum, as we navigated our way to the opening plenary together. Then and over the following days we talked about her vision (the forum theme is ‘feminist futures’, after all), her work and her experiences over the past days at the forum.
Artivism: art as activism, activism as art
Art can be a powerful tool for activists. It can grapple with the world and bring about change. This piece explores some of the artivism on display at AWID 2016. This article is part of 50.50's in-depth coverage of the 2016 AWID Forum being held on 8th -11th September in Bahia, Brazil. There is a bridge in Cape Town, at a busy junction outside the city centre, under which homeless people shelter and cars pass throughout the day and night.
Self-care in a digital space
This article is part of 50.50's in-depth coverage of the 2016 AWID Forum being held on 8th -11th September in Bahia, Brazil. “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives!” AWID’s 13th International Forum began with Audre Lorde’s call to an intersectional movement.
Classifying bodies, denying freedoms
From sex to race, classification is a tool of oppression. Particularly examining abuse directed at Caster Semenya, this article looks ahead this week’s AWID International Forum’s theme ‘Bodily Integrity and Freedoms’. I was in my early teens when I accompanied my grandmother on a Christmas errand to deliver boxes of biscuits to each of her surviving maternal cousins. Although our extended family was big we were also close, so I was surprised when the last box was for an aunty I’d never met.
Stay Woke: sustaining feminist organising in an uncertain world
Take ten! Every time I have confronted an empty page on my computer in my struggle to write this article, it is due to a battle with the recurrent thought that there is nothing new to be said about the challenges confronting feminist movements today.
My 350 on BREXIT: Not my country
The referendum was subverted into a push for ethnic cleansing. No-one stopped it and no-one will undo it now.. WHY? When the cowards ran away some of the politicians who were jockeying to replace them were going “Pick me! Pick me! I can help heal the scars..” Me, I'm not 'healing' a racist England. Those who became 'the 52%' after thirty complicit years of being stoked, herded and prodded are loathesome. Generations battled racism.
DemocraciaAbierta, one year on
We have selected 10 articles among the most successful with our readers during this first year. They are fair examples of what democraciaAbierta is up to. democraciaAbierta has been publishing for one year now. After more than 250 original articles, published in at least two of our three working languages (Spanish, Portuguese, and – always - English) we have been able to build a significant readership in Latin America, in Europe and across the world.
Oscar Pistorius: shooting to kill
Can a white man be morally absolved if it is decided that he meant to shoot an ‘imaginary black intruder’ rather than his girlfriend? Apartheid and patriarchy underpin Pistorius' trial. Part one. Part two . Part three . This is the first article in a three-part series by Ché Ramsden exploring feminist issues surrounding the Pistorius trial, how they intersect and their implications in a South African context. Read part two. Read part three.
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