‘A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.’ – Abbie Hoffman I first came across the political whirlwind that was Abbie Hoffman whilst a new activist in …
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In 2017 the Political is Personal
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Gender(ed) Paradoxes
Feminist, anti-imperialist and student movements of the 1960s and 1970s brought to the fore the concept of the ‘personal [as] political’. Since that time, the ‘personal [as] political’ has become axiomatic, offered as a means …
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Migrants, Modernity and the ‘Islamisation of Europe’
I also come from a Muslim, Iranian, migrant background – where many in my family migrated to the U.S. from Iran in 1979 and throughout the 1980s as both economic migrants and refugees from the …