Human rights and justice

Human rights and justice
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Hidden in translation – Jewish resistance to Spanish empire
Translation as a powerful form of resistance: how a 16th-century Sephardic Jew conquered the colonial narrative from Spain
by Flora Cassen

Disability
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A few simple steps could empower the world’s largest minority
What makes people like me disabled is not our bodies but the societies we live in. Let me inspire a rethink in your attitudes
by Paras Shah

Anger
guide
How to be angry
Anger is a fuel that’s dangerous when out of control. But managed well, it can energise you to identify and confront problems
by Ryan Martin

Artists and art history
film
Should art heal the centuries of racial violence and injustice in the US?
Directed by Taylor Rees

Civic life
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The origin story of a slogan, ‘the personal is political’
What the radical-feminist origins of the slogan ‘the personal is political’ can tell us about language in our own divided age
by Guy Stevenson

Hallucinations and delusions
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Philosophy can help us connect, even in the face of psychosis
How phenomenological tools can help foster a relationship of true listening between clinicians and people with psychosis
by Rosa Ritunnano & Kasim Qureshi

Habits and routines
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Prison life puts the ‘time work’ we all do into sharp relief
Trapped in an ocean of time, prisoners exemplify the human impulse to take temporal experience into our own hands
by Michael G Flaherty

Progress and the future
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Over-optimism about racial justice is widespread and harmful
Achieving racial justice takes work, but narratives of ever-unfolding progress can make it seem as if the job is already done
by Michael Kraus