Indonesia’s Silent Genocide in West Papua: Racism, Displacement, and Brutal Murder
In the last 50 years, an estimated 500,000 West Papuans lost their lives to Indonesian armed forces. The people of the most eastern province of Indonesia have been fighting an independence war since 1962. Thousands of people lost their lives to this conflict, yet the…
Blaxit: Black Americans on Why They Moved Out of the United States
Blaxit, or Black Exit – a wordplay on the term Brexit – describes Black Americans who move out of the United States. This can be for several reasons, but many of those are rooted in racial (in)equality, and in search of a better life. West…
What Is White Fragility, and Why Is It Dangerous?
This message is specifically for all white people who feel uncomfortable when discussing racial inequality. You can disregard the way I directly address the (white) reader if this does not concern you. In this article, I will discuss the dangers of white fragility and how…
The System Is Not Broken, It Was Made to Function Like This
Riots The death of George Floyd as a result of racialized, excessive police brutality, sparked national and global outrage. Over the last days, thousands of protesters took to streets of Minneapolis, MN, to demand justice for the lynching of yet another black man. Right now…
How the Instagram ‘Name Change Prank’ Exposed Racist and Homophobic Users
Instagram is the birthplace of many online challenges and pranks. We have seen make-up challenges, cooking challenges, and dancing challenges. The most recent one, however, tops all of the above! The ‘Instagram name change prank’ resulted in thousands of users being stuck with a ridiculous,…
“Privilege is when you think something is not a problem because it’s not a problem to you personally”
White privilege is a real thing, despite the fact many people deny its existence. And if you’re not a person of color, you have it too. In one of their most underrated songs, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis managed to capture the core issues of white…
