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The Tip of the Tip of the Iceberg: Trump’s Rhetoric on Migration

Posted on February 6, 2017February 6, 2017 by Gabriela Benazar Acosta by Gabriela Benazar Acosta

There are three medium to long term options for the victims of large scale displacement: integration, resettlement or voluntary repatriation. Let’s be clear here, according to UNHCR figures, only 1%…

Audio Postcard: A Day in the After School Life at the Arab-American Family Support Center

Posted on November 30, 2016August 1, 2017 by Bianca Rogers by Bianca Rogers

One of the outside organizations that Engage Media Lab, a student organization here at The New School, works with is the Arab-American Family Support Center. New School students have been…

Safety Pin Activism: It’s Not So Easy

Posted on November 14, 2016November 14, 2016 by Shona Kambarami by Shona Kambarami

There has been wide criticism in America of importing the post-Brexit idea of allies wearing a safety pin in solidarity with minorities, as a response to the heartbreaking election of Donal Trump. In general, the…

Opinion: Yup, that’s racist.

Posted on November 4, 2016November 6, 2016 by Shona Kambarami by Shona Kambarami

I was in a class this week when my professor used the word “blacks”. It is an informal class at a liberal college and she is a left-leaning, informed teacher…

Faith, Family, and Fiesta in Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Posted on October 5, 2016March 9, 2017 by Rachel Stevens by Rachel Stevens

Situated on Brooklyn’s Western edge alongside the Bay Ridge Channel and informally spanning 36th to 65th streets, Sunset Park hosts one of the most ethnically heterogenous populations of the borough.…

Make the Wrongs, Right: Migrant Domestic Workers

Posted on September 26, 2016October 5, 2016 by Farrah Tonnos by Farrah Tonnos

“I just wanted to help my family” A small yet powerful statement uttered from the mouth of Cecile, a Filipino domestic worker formerly stationed in Dubai. After meeting this woman at…

Islamophobia in Mainstream Media

Posted on September 16, 2016October 5, 2016 by Bianca Rogers by Bianca Rogers

How have mainstream media and pop culture made it easier for Islamophobia to rear its ugly head now more than ever? What can we do to change this script and…

Pharmaceutical Patents under TRIPS: Diminishing the Right to Health

Posted on September 14, 2016October 5, 2016 by Zahra Mustamand by Zahra Mustamand

Over 2 billion people—an overwhelming majority of which live in developing countries, do not have regular access to essential medicines because they are unavailable or unaffordable according to a 2014…

Rent-A-Womb

Posted on September 14, 2016September 14, 2016 by Shona Kambarami by Shona Kambarami

The International Gestational Surrogacy Market is a form of Exploitation “Our miracle baby is finally here,” wrote Tyra Banks, on announcing the birth of her first child by gestational surrogate…

‘Vagina’ in Latin is Still ‘Vagina’

Posted on February 25, 2016September 14, 2016 by Matthew Kosinski by Matthew Kosinski

The apple of my eye is the apple that I eat and shit daily. And the next day shit again. I take the sins of men with me to…

Should I wear makeup because I’m a feminist or in spite of being a feminist?

Posted on February 16, 2016September 14, 2016 by Kelsey O'Hara by Kelsey O'Hara

Women in the workplace face conflicting expectations when it comes to makeup, from what makes them comfortable personally to vague rules spouted by the media. I rifled through the internet and my…

ABOUNADDARA: The Right to the Image

Posted on December 7, 2015September 14, 2016 by Shona Kambarami by Shona Kambarami

What is a revolution? If you ask Charif Kiwan, the exiled Syrian and one of three named members of Abounaddara, he would answer that, in the case of Syria, it…

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