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A message to students and staff observing Ramadan from the Muslim Chaplain at SOAS.
We need to see the history and complexity of transgender ‘visibility’ to consider its role in the movement towards liberation.
We’ve always been here but now we’re more visible. Shut down the bigots when they speak up to make space for trans voices.
India’s ‘neutrality’ on Ukraine has raised eyebrows abroad, which could harm cooperation with other nations in the long-term.
Do you want to study but aren’t quite ready for a Masters? A Pre-Masters gave me the opportunity for a more gradual transition.
“Legally speaking, slavery does not exist but it’s traces, it’s ghosts very much continue to exist to this day.”
Amid climate and oceans crises, Africa faces devastating consequences if it does not implement sustainable blue economic policies very soon.
Translated literally, Ohanami means ‘looking at flowers’. It’s a unique part of Japanese culture dating back more than a thousand years.
This Friday, musicians from around the world will come to SOAS to play a Concert for Ukraine. We asked them what they see the role of music as being during difficult times.
