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Apr 4, 2016 · Author and Activist. News. Recent publications. Don't Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong was republished in November 2019 with a brilliant analytical introduction by Dr Deirdre Osborne, Reader in English Literature and Drama in the Theatre and Performance Department at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Rahila Gupta. Author and Activist . About me. I was born in...
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Rahila Gupta. Author and Activist . WHY BLACK MATTERS....
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Books. Don’t wake me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong; The...
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Rahila Gupta. Author and Activist . In the media eye. This...
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Author and Activist . Films. Provoked; The Unreliable...
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Forthcoming projects . Why Doesn’t Patriarchy Die? A...
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Author and Activist . Contact. Twitter: @RahilaG Email...
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Member of the Asian Women Writers Collective from 1984 to the mid-90s. Trustee of the Boards of Clean Break Theatre Company and SADAA (previously known as SALIDAA) a digital archive of Asian Arts and Literature in Britain – exact dates have faded from my memory. Writing CV. Books.
Rahila Gupta. Author and Activist . WHY BLACK MATTERS. 20/07/2021. New Internationalist, 18 January 2021 We live in an age when self-identification is all the rage ...
- The Long Tail
- Black Sisters
- ‘Black Is Cool’
- Political Black Under Attack
- Black Versus POC
One of the most influential thinkers on race, A Sivanandan, Director of the Institute for Race Relations from 1972 onwards, articulated a definition of ‘black’ which left its mark on a generation of activists. For him, it was a political colour. It stood for an anti-racist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist politics rooted in the Global South an...
Black was a rolling stone which gathered meanings as it rolled along. For black women the ground they were standing on was eroded not just by race and class; gender too had muddied it. They knew they had to come together to fight on all these grounds, that the struggle for both racial and sexual equality is inextricably linked; that if either strug...
We are facing a similar situation today. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the global rise of Black Lives Matter, part of the British establishment is belatedly falling over itself to give space to black people and issues of racism: reading lists to understand black history; stories of young black people and their experience of growing up he...
Many Asian youngsters will say that the term ‘Black’ simply does not land nowadays and many African-Caribbean youngsters will ask ‘why are you begging black?’ Reni Eddo-Lodge introduces her podcast on Political Blackness with the case of the students’ union at the University of Kent, UK, which got into trouble for including pictures of Sadiq Khan a...
There does appear to be a generational divide in the preference for each label, with ‘People of Colour (PoC)’ among the younger generation. Two members of Sisters Uncut interviewed by Eddo-Lodge thought political blackness was old school. One of them reported that there are people who find the term offensive but ‘it’s not a hill that I’m willing to...
Dr Hamill is currently working full time at Appalachian Behavioral Health Care Hospital and does part time collaboration work with Ohio Psychiatric Services and Hocking Valley Hospital. OPS is honored to have Dr Hamill as a part of the team and share his knowledge and expertise with our providers and staff. ×.
Nov 15, 2022 · Activist Rahila Gupta shares an account of an international conference organised by Kurdish women calling upon the women of the world to organise a revolution as the time is ripe because both capitalism and patriarchy are in crisis.
Rojava revolution: reshaping masculinity – Rahila Gupta. Women’s art and culture festival in Rojava, March 2016. Photo:Rahila Gupta. Published by Open Democracy 9 May 2016. Rojava’s battle with ISIS stronghold Raqqa is not simply a military one, but an ideological one in which the position of women could not be more polarised. Part 4.
