News: Civil & Human Rights
Handwashing without WASH and lockdowns without toilets: critical contradictions amid COVID-19
March 22, 2021When COVID-19 became a global pandemic, frequent handwashing, lockdowns, and social distancing were quickly prescribed to control spread and limit new infections. Among these measures, […]
Their deaths shame us all: neoliberalism, COVID-19, and the banality of evil
March 16, 2021In late March 2020, as the potential scale of the COVID-19 epidemic became clear, a televised conversation unfolded between Fox News host Tucker Carlson and […]
The image and failure of white feminism
March 9, 2021When you work as a writer in various media, you learn to develop your content with a visual element in mind: you hire an illustrator […]
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Scholarship shaped by civil war
March 5, 2021Development, dispossession and authoritarian reversal in Southeast Asia
March 1, 2021The February 1 military coup in Myanmar is only the latest in a series of authoritarian reversals across the region. It follows a controversial declaration […]
Peace is another name for violence, sometimes
February 17, 2021Like many of my friends, I rejoiced upon learning about the 2021 nominations of Stacey Abrams and the Movement for Black Lives for the prestigious, […]