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Author: Ibtihaaj Mohamoud

A mother braids her daughter's natural hair.

‘Don’t touch my hair’ – the significance of ‘Hair Love’

19th February 20203rd March 2020Ibtihaaj Mohamoud

Household chores and childcare were pretty evenly distributed in my house but if there was one thing that fell directly under my mother”s responsibilities, it was my hair. Some of my most vivid childhood memories are of me sitting between my mother’s legs, head lolling off to sleep and her hands lovingly braiding my hair. […]

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Watch out! An infectious disease is spreading! No, not coronavirus… racism.

19th February 202013th March 2020Katherine Zhou

I understand the fear that follows a viral outbreak. When swine flu broke out in 2009, I was terrified – my naïve 9-year-old self imagined a post-apocalyptic world, my head filled with delusions drawn from the dystopian novels I spent my free time reading.  Despite having a relatively low risk compared to common illnesses like […]

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Oxford students are pictured matriculating in 2003.

The many faces of impostor syndrome

19th January 202021st February 2020Danielle Wellbeck

We hear the term ‘impostor syndrome’ a lot at Oxford. For most people, it describes feeling out of place or feeling like you do not deserve to be somewhere because maybe before you became used to being the smartest in your school or class, but now you are around people who may be more prepared […]

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The vilification of Meghan Markle is racist

19th January 202023rd January 2020Ibtihaaj Mohamoud

For many in Britain, the very notion that the treatment of Meghan Markle in the media is rooted in racism is unfathomable. For some reason, (the reason being the privilege of being white in a white supremacist society) a large portion of the British public seem to have the impression that we live in a […]

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Mixed-up: the mixed-race experience

19th January 202028th January 2020Chloe Manuel

Image Description: The author with her mother and paternal grandmother  ‘Where are you from? … No, where are you really from?’ These two questions haunt those of mixed-race like the plague. I’m from Newcastle. Really. The term ‘mixed-race’ itself is, in a sense, an impractical one, referring to anyone who is half Filipina half white, like […]

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