The Awarding Gap: How Students of Colour are Falling Behind their White Peers
Though ethnicity awarding gaps have been a long-standing problem in UK universities, it seems that there is still no effective solution found to tackle this issue. For 16 years in…
Racialised injustice: The Calais issue
By Charlotte Brill Seeking asylum is an internationally recognised legal right according to the 1951 Refugee Convention, allowing displaced people to apply for refugee status in countries which have signed…
Self-Representation – Women of Colour in Publishing Event
Over recent years, relentless injustice has caused a surge in female self-reclamation, especially across the media. More and more women from marginalised communities and backgrounds are coming forward to utilise…
More Brit(ish) than ever: A review of Afua Hirsch at Brighton Festival
Afua Hirsch’s 2018 book – part memoir, part polemic – provokes mixed feelings. So too did her discussion of the topic at this year’s Brighton Festival. Don’t get me wrong,…
‘My First Black Breast’: The inner struggle within Interracial Relationships
We’ve all heard the phrase “I don’t usually date Black people” … Whether this has been spoken directly to you, or you have heard it spoken in reference to another.…
Multicultural Britain must face up to its Identity question
The subject of identity is far from an easy one. That is not to say merely that it is difficult to solve – that much is a statement of the…
The fallacy of race and the reality of racism at British universities
Luqman Onikosi A case for why Sussex University and its Union needs to de-colonise whiteness in their institutions During Black History Month 2015 at Sussex Dr. Alana Lentin delivered a…
Falmer building hosts student’s exhibition
If You Don’t Know You Better Get to Know, Falmer Common Room Until Friday 21st November