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Aeon Magazine
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Aeon Magazine
Apr 2, 2019
Why Report Injustice When Being Justly Treated Is Unimaginable?
Black women can imagine being the prey…
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Jan 1, 2019
Why Haiti Should Be at the Center of the Age of Revolution
Haiti, not the US or France, was where the…
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Dec 27, 2018
If We Talk About Hurting ‘Our’ Planet, Who Exactly Is the ‘We’?
The Anthropocene feels different…
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Dec 6, 2018
Was the Suffragettes’ Description of Women as Slaves Justifiable?
The women’s suffrage movement was…
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Oct 17, 2018
Loneliness Is the Common Ground of Terror and Extremism
As Hannah Arendt argued, there is one common…
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Sep 16, 2018
Dignity Is Delicate
Human dignity is a concept with remarkably shallow historical roots. Is that why it is so presently endangered?
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Sep 11, 2018
When Homer Envisioned Achilles, Did He See a Black Man?
The Greeks didn’t have modern ideas of race. Did they see themselves as white, black — or as something else altogether?
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Sep 3, 2018
The Abolitionist Benjamin Lay Was a Hero Ahead of His Time
Radical Quaker Benjamin Lay was a pioneer of abolitionism, who lived what he preached. So why was he erased from history?
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Aug 21, 2018
Eugenics Today: Where Eugenic Sterilisation Continues Now
Thought eugenics died with the Nazis? Think…
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Aug 20, 2018
Black. Queer. Born Again: A Life In and Out of the Church
Black life is world-making, born of gaps and dislocations, imaginative leavings and returns, generative escapes and arrivals
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