Topic: Digital media
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‘It is the politics of visibility’: the community archives saving their histories from erasure
Marginalised communities have long fought to preserve their own stories and provide an alternative to the Eurocentric, colonial archive
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Why are we still competing in the ‘hygiene olympics’?
The cleanliness trend is rooted more in a performative display of wellness rather than reality or science
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From Swahili to Yoruba, African communities in the UK are keeping their languages alive
With the help of cultural groups, apps and dedicated YouTube channels, a growing number of people are learning the mother tongues of their families
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The enduring myth of the no-go zone
The idea of urban areas where law, order and state power have broken down has long been used against marginalised groups — but in recent years it has taken on a powerful anti-Muslim quality
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Community groups remind the world about Sudan’s forgotten war
Overshadowed by other international conflicts, an ongoing humanitarian disaster has been widely neglected by western governments and media outlets
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Maysoon Zayid Q&A: ‘I became a comedian because I was a drama queen’
The comedian on the discrimination she’s faced as a Palestinian-American since 7 October
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I’m not a typo, so why does autocorrect keep changing my name?
A new campaign is calling for tech companies to stop othering people and erasing our names
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My Ramadan: Beth Botham
As a recent convert to Islam, Beth Botham is documenting her first Ramadan through TikTok, sharing her spiritual journey with her online community
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‘Overwhelming’ bias revealed in new report on UK media’s coverage of Israel-Palestine conflict
Researchers at the Centre for Media Monitoring analysed more than 200,000 news items in the month following 7 October and found coverage to be ‘disproportionately biased towards a pro-Israeli framing and narrative’
