Flags are embattled emblems, tied to histories of dominance, conquest, and nationhood. If language is fluid and shaped by those who speak it, perhaps it is time to rethink how we visually represent it.
Browsing: colonialism
These forgotten flags, with their blood-red backgrounds and powerful symbols, reveal the radical foundations of Filipino nationalism that continue to resonate with diaspora communities today.
Once practices are stripped of their cultural roots, or hyperexoticised, they are then repackaged for Western consumption. Eating with your hands is no longer about connection to your community or land; instead, they are divorced from their origins and rich histories.
Perhaps each diasporic recollection of home, its sounds and sights, has to be filtered through a foreign lens. Equally, in the opposite direction, I will keep a keen ear for whatever chords sound like the Carnatic raga, and whatever words sound like my rusty mother tongue.
As the war on Gaza enters its sixth month — and 76th year —- Palestinian women and girls find themselves condemned to immense period poverty.
From an insider’s perspective, the rampant misogyny is something that I’ve been exposed to since a child. As a person born female, from an early age you are told what your place is as a woman.
Being settlers in a colony like Australia means we find ourselves engulfed within the colonised narrative of Indigenous bodies, land rights and sovereignty.
Protesters gathered on Gadigal Land in Sydney yesterday to condemn Albanese’s public holiday and push for the abolition of the monarchy.
Honi soit qui mal y pense. Shame upon he who thinks evil of it.
Grammarly was designed mostly to be used in business rather than academic contexts, proving its service as a colonial project targeted to the teleology of late-stage capitalism.
