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Identity
·9th January 2020

Identity: OxStu’s new BAME Section

Alex Haveron-Jones and Bethan Roberts
We are both very proud to announce the launch of Identity, our new section dedicated to spotlighting the issues, opinions...
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Oxford students are pictured matriculating in 2003.
Identity
·19th January 2020

The many faces of impostor syndrome

Danielle Wellbeck
We hear the term ‘impostor syndrome’ a lot at Oxford. For most people, it describes feeling out of place or...
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Identity
·2nd February 2020

How media “mistakes” hurt black people

Amy Evans
Image Description: Marsha De Cordova MP, who was recently mistaken for another black female MP, Dawn Butler, by the BBC...
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A mother braids her daughter's natural hair.
Identity
·19th February 2020

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

Ibtihaaj Mohamoud
Household chores and childcare were pretty evenly distributed in my house but if there was one thing that fell directly...
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Identity
·12th April 2020

Academics and identity in the face of the coronavirus pandemic

Charlotte Murphy
Image Description: Students receiving A-level results “You’re so smart!” Those were the words that characterised my years at school, particularly...
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Identity
·20th April 2020

In India, a hotly disputed story points to a larger problem

Anushka Joshi
Image description: Woman in Adhmedabad A few days ago I woke up to a headline which brought back the unforgivable...
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Identity
·23rd April 2020

Ramadhan in lockdown

Hudaa Bax
Ramadhan. To the naked eye, it could show weary, famished and thirsty faces. To the learned eye, it could suggest...
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Identity
·27th April 2020

Jurgen Klopp, Mané, and First Impressions

Toye Oladinni
‘Not a good start Boris!’ Shouted about a million years ago means something different now. For all the noise about...
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Culture
·8th May 2020

Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’ – does it work on screen?

Poppy Atkinson Gibson
Image description: Marianne and Connell stand facing each other “Is that really weird?” “Yeah. Yeah, that’s really weird Marianne. But...
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Identity
·20th May 2020

Loved Tiger King? Try a Tiger Mother

Ray Cheung
Ever since I was old enough to be aware of the cultural differences between me and my classmates, I’ve been...
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Identity
·19th January 2020

Mixed-up: the mixed-race experience

Chloe Manuel
Image Description: The author with her mother and paternal grandmother  ‘Where are you from? 
 No, where are you really from?’...
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Identity
·2nd February 2020

Who Priti Patel (mis)represents

Nadia Ghauri
Like Patel, I am a female of South Asian descent. Unlike Patel, I do not have access to the power, platforms and...
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Identity
·19th February 2020

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

Katherine Zhou
I understand the fear that follows a viral outbreak. When swine flu broke out in 2009, I was terrified –...
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Identity
·5th March 2020

This again?: re-examining cultural appropriation

Katherine Zhou
Recently, I had a conversation where the statements “people are too PC these days…especially about cultural appropriation” and “no one...
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Diane Abbott at 'Don't Bomb Syria' Protest
Identity
·18th April 2020

How Diane Abbott’s treatment by her party highlights a bigger issue for black Labour supporters

Laila March
Image Description: Diane Abbott at the ‘Don’t Bomb Syria’ protest Diane Abbott’s treatment in the media in recent years has...
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Identity
·22nd April 2020

Coronavirus and Marginalisation: A pre-existing condition?

Myesha Munro
Image Description: Doctor talking to a patient From its very beginnings when emerging in Wuhan last December, to the current...
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Identity
·25th April 2020

Around the world in 8 books

Maga Flores-Trevino
Whilst most of the world is in lockdown, literature is still free to comfort, entertain and let you explore different...
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Identity
·3rd May 2020

The Coronavirus, immigration, rhetoric and competence in Britain

Roshan Panesar
Britain has a problem with immigration, but probably not the one we are led to believe. The current emergency has...
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Identity
·16th May 2020

Far from ‘Home’: the different worlds in our capital city

Roshan Panesar
Book Review: ‘This is London,’ by Ben Judah In A-Level History I was introduced to the well-used quote from L.P....
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