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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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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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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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