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Yellow Skin, White Masks

Yellow Skin, White Masks

April 9, 2021
by Eugene Yang
Features

It’s a look of adjustment. Coloured people have felt it since the ancient time, since the long, long ago when the sun stopped shining where…

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Understanding Depression: Be Kind to your Mind

Understanding Depression: Be Kind to your Mind

April 1, 2021
by The Hobos
Beating the Blues, Features

“Malingerer” is my reflexive conviction when I talk about depression or hear it discussed. Mental illness is the privilege of wealthy societies where basic needs…

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Tiger Traps

Tiger Traps

March 17, 2021
by Elsie Stone
Current Affairs, Features

In the North of India, lost somewhere in the heart of Rajasthan, near a tiny town with a single dirt road, I went looking for…

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The Backpackers Guide to Vegas

The Backpackers Guide to Vegas

March 16, 2021
by Evie Weston
Features

While every kind of travel destination has its own allure, there’s no experience quite like an exciting week in Las Vegas, Nevada. Known as the…

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Iranian Women Are Changing the Game

Iranian Women Are Changing the Game

March 8, 2021
by Lizzy Keen
Features

My third evening in the Islamic Republic of Iran lands me in an underground music gig in a hip café-cum-alcohol-free-bar in the capital, Tehran, where…

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Yakuza, Spoiled Carpets and Big Cash -- The World of a Gaijin Hostess in Tokyo

Yakuza, Spoiled Carpets and Big Cash — The World of a Gaijin Hostess in Tokyo

October 5, 2020
by Eleanor Wilson
Features

“I don’t want to do this job for that long. I don’t want to do it now if I’m honest. Who wants to sit around…

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Accepting Diaspora: From The Caucasus to Australia

Accepting Diaspora: From The Caucasus to Australia

September 30, 2020
by Dana Hubraq
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I learned about it the summer after I turned 16. The fan above was blowing hot air onto my head. Miscellaneous birds made their Australiana…

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Chum: Breathing in the Black Lives Matter Movement

Chum: Breathing in the Black Lives Matter Movement

July 15, 2020
by Nahum Gale
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“Too black for the white kids, and too white for the black.” That’s a line from the 2013 single ‘Chum’ by African-American rapper Earl Sweatshirt….

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Fucking My Oppressors

Fucking My Oppressors

June 29, 2020
by Linh
Features

Here I am, on my knees for a white man. Throwback to 50 years ago, and the context of this statement would have meant I…

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Freelance Travel Writers and Famils Trips: Is Pay for Play Okay?

Freelance Travel Writers and Famils Trips: Is Pay for Play Okay?

June 22, 2020
by Mike Howard
Features

Ah, the life of a freelance travel writer. Fun, free and fulfilling – maybe not right now, but post-COVID-19? You’ll get to venture out into…

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Humanity’s Great Hope in Times of Pain and Pestilence

Humanity’s Great Hope in Times of Pain and Pestilence

June 9, 2020
by Maya Skidmore
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Where to look when things feel dire When my grandfather was a punky British 14-year-old in 1944, he would stand at his bedroom window watching…

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Prick Prick Boom

Prick Prick Boom

June 5, 2020
by Mike
Features

I was 12 or 13 years old when I had my left arm intentionally broken by racist, highly privileged white kids at the school I…

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