what i read in january 2022:
(previous editions) bold = favourite
class, race, & labour
i, racist
why europe’s muslims are braced for france’s stint running the eu presidency
please stop putting hell money next to chinese dishes
the aboriginal tent embassy began with an umbrella and became a symbol of sovereignty (australia)
‘won’t take it any more’: south korea’s starbucks baristas rebel
black lives matter protests spark reminder of ‘deeply rooted’ racial injustice towards west papuans (indonesia)
gender & sexuality
how to write about trans people
modern action and superhero films fetishise the body, even as they desexualise it
victory in court for indigenous women raped during guatemala’s civil war
the redemption of the bad mother
poland has ‘blood on its hands’ after death of woman refused an abortion
politics, climate change, & covid
‘everyone asks about novak’ but mehdi has languished for nine years in australian immigration detention
behind the label: how the us stitched up the honduras garment industry
‘not a single afghan without trauma’: how endless cycles of conflict are shattering afghans
'milk tea alliance’ brews democracy online among young activists across asia
the uyghur chronicles: one by one, my friends were sent to the camps (china)
the battle for the future of the west (ukraine/us)
history, culture, & media
sunset boulevard at 70: we’re all norma desmond now
secrets of south korea’s house of horrors
‘the misfits,’ marilyn monroe’s final film, is bleak perfection
the marvel juggernaut: with great power comes zero responsibility
how to kill a god: the myth of captain cook shows how the heroes of empire will fall
