Decolonizing Curricula

Our current education system is broken... Under the veil of patriotism, we fail to see the violent consequences of the whitewashed dominant narrative which has embedded itself within our scholarly content and curricula.

BLM and P.O.C. in France

The BLM movement has taken magnitude...  we’re able to be well aware that the attacks on people, the attacks on human rights committed in one country or another are well beyond the color of one’s skin.

Housing Inequality

Without inherited wealth, access to opportunity and right to move into thriving, more stable neighborhoods, Black wealth has remained abysmally low. Renting was rarely a choice, rather the only viable solution...

Racism pt2 – Senegal

I’ve always been exposed to diversity, having grown up in a multicultural home and studing at a school with International students. In France, we must first and foremost begin teaching the colonial history.

Riots

Rioters, as we are taught, are thugs, hoodlums and criminals. Never, does the mainstream glorify rioters as agents of change whose voices have been systematically removed and suppressed...

Racism pt1 – Belgium

I believed Belgium wasn’t doing too bad in terms of discrimination and racism, but that was merely due to the lack of media coverage surrounding these issues, and... which type of school I went to.

Existentialist Plague

In reaction to the current global pandemic, French philosopher Albert Camus' 1947 novel The Plague, timely once more, has suddenly soared to number twenty-five on the French best seller list...

Populism Polarized

With the recent populist political support in Europe, one readily associates populism as synonymous with the far-right. However, not being an ideology, it can't be linked to one side or the other...

Take 2: COVID-19

Fact and Fiction, Caution and Fear. In times of uncertainty, the lines continue to blur each and every day; in the context of this novel coronavirus, they blur with each and every new case...

COVID-19 in Mexico

March 16th, as Mexico faced 82 confirmed and 171 suspected coronavirus cases, the country’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), walked into his routine morning press conference...

Perceptions & Opinions

I remember a brief phase in my primary school education where I would stick a pencil between my thumb and index finger and rock my hand — my fingers crucially loose — in a half-circular motion...

Biden, Sanders

As 2020 elections draw near, Trump’s Presidency has held symbolic weight in rejecting the values we as a nation seemingly stand by. His administration features rollbacks not policy...