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Georgina Bolam

Red-faced over ‘blackface’: Racism in Malaysia

by Georgina Bolam

If you’re searching for the latest national embarrassment hot on the heels of a ridiculous campaign funded by the Health Ministry to “prevent” gayness, look no further.  Malaysia has got you covered with a Raya (the Malaysian term for Islam’s Eid holiday) video of such high production value and big names, that you have to wonder… how […]

Appreciation or appropriation? The cultural trends infiltrating the fashion industry

by Georgina Bolam

Go to any festival this year, and you’ll be confronted by hordes of white, middle-class youth rocking bindis and faux-Kente-printed shirts. The vast majority have probably never been near India or Ghana. I doubt they’re clocked on to black history or pan-Africanism or are well versed in Hinduism. But does that matter? Well, increasing numbers […]

Sex, drugs and… Netflix – “narco-soaps” in Mexico and Colombia

by Georgina Bolam

Eccentric tales of shady drug bosses and glamorous women assassins are the staple of Mexican and Colombian primetime television. But the latest “narco-soaps” about the countries’ drug gangs have sparked a debate about just how much of that dark reality should be broadcast into living rooms night after night. The latest narco-show to air is […]

Making sense of the Black Lives Matter movement

by Georgina Bolam

The least disputable measure of a bad week is any seven-day period that requires a body count at the end of it. More common than the deaths of Dallas police officers are the unwarranted killings by police of two black men, Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana. I’d like to think that […]

What to expect from Theresa May

by Georgina Bolam

The Tory leadership contest has come to a shuddering halt. How a relatively new and completely untested MP could effectively end up going head to head for the most senior position in British politics, seemingly unprepared for the battle ahead, is beyond comprehension. On Monday night, Tory MPs did not raucously celebrate Theresa May’s elevation […]

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