The Fetishization of Mixed Race Women in Africa

While researching for this article, I did a generic search for “fetishization of mixed race women” and found only two results. I tried sexualisation instead, which only brought three new but irrelevant sources. I played around with wording for searches, but even the larger ones produces scores of irrelevant sources to the topic. It opened […]

The Hypocritical Fascination with Indian Baddies:

Indian Heritage and Beauty within Coloured Identity Tweets, Instagram posts and TikTok videos of young Indian women attending Tyla’s concert have gone viral, with bizarre captions stating that people “did not know” that “Indian baddies” exist. Juggernaut and other Indian/South Asian blogs have naturally responded to this pointing out what absurd commentary this is, considering […]

A Summary of Galtung on Violence

So, over the last few weeks we have been seeing many videos and photographs of violence committed against minorities, but especially Black people, particular by the police. We have been saddened by news of Black men like George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, Black trans men like Tony McCade, Black women like Breanna Taylor, and Black […]