“I knew little about the island nation I would visit, only that Cuba was a place of rich cigars and dark rum, balmy breezes and mighty fishermen, percussive music and syncopated dance steps.” Kit-Bacon Gressitt shares her journey to Cuba during el bloqueo.
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“Though the origins of the practice are unknown, many medical historians believe that FGM dates back to at least 2,000 years.” Gimel Samera looks at the brutality of FGM.
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“…in the workplace, a person can practically be forced out of their job by discrimination, taking numerous days off for fear of their physical safety and mental wellbeing.” Aaron Grierson confronts prejudice against bisexuality.
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“In fact it is often through the uninformed use of such words that language becomes a tool in perpetuating sexism and violence against women in society.” Sana Hussain on gender and language.
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“The psychology of prejudice demands that we are each our own moral police”. Maria Amir on the roots of bigotry and intolerance.
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“I’d like to find out where the one-way ticket goes, though. China has Taiwan and Korea has South Korea. Where will we go? To some tiny island somewhere? Wherever it is will be freedom.” Michelle Robin La shares the first person account of her husband’s experience as a child in the Vietnam on April 30th, 1975.
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“This made me reassess everything that I thought I had known about him, and to an extent what I thought I had known about myself.” Deonte Osayande looks at what happens when a childhood friend becomes a murderer.
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“New constructions in the city — often featureless, rectilinear beehives built inside gated compounds — are frequently christened as a ‘court’, ‘manor’ or an ‘enclave’.” Part II of Chitralekha Basu’s look at how English is used in modern Calcutta.
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“The tradition of adapting English words as part of Bengali colloquial speech is at least two-hundred-years old.” Chitralekha Basu explores the English language in everyday Bengali speech.
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“Characters…in motion, changing, and searching for identity. Any attempt at traditional syntax construction is lost, and subsequently altered, as the words themselves become reflections of the character’s mindset.” Noah Klein defines the transitory condition of Michael Ondaatje’s characters.
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