Category: Politics & Current Affairs
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The Hypocrisy of the EU in the Palm Oil discourse: an ASEAN perspective.
Women & Politics Postgraduate Officer Fara is currently studying MSc Global Affairs (with regional focus in MENA). She also works for an Environment NGO and has previously interned at the UN (Humanitarian Agency). In her free time, she is a total podcast-enthusiast, runs a food blog on Instagram (follow @wholesomebites_), and is almost always singing!…
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‘Tis Pity He’s A Sexual Predator: Roman Polanski and other stories
Saga Jaubert is a final year War Studies & History student, particularly interested in how national security, intelligence, and nationalist politics shape international conflicts. In terms of non war-related interests, she also enjoys literature, theatre, and music, but hates the occasional small talk about Brexit. [Featured Image: Black and white photograph of an audience in…
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The Glass Cliff & the Election of Sanna Marin
Francesca Verge is a first year International Relations student at KCL. She loves music, her dog and is interested in languages, having grown up in a multicultural family. She hopes to help the empowerment of women around the world, and was inspired by a high school anthropology class on gender theory. [Featured Image: A person…
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‘Popular as a Victim, Forgotten as a Defendant’: Injustice in Women’s Capital Defense Trials
Valentina Meo is a third year in History and International relations that loves to travel, read, and debate in Model United Nations. [Featured Image: An animated white gavel above an animated white syringe against a red background.] This piece is the first part in a multi-part series on injustice in women’s capital defense trials. Recently,…
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Hillary Clinton at KCL: Gutsy Woman or ‘Limousine Liberal’?
Contributor Diya Nair is a Masters student at LSE, who is interested in post-colonial feminism and the intersection of culture and gender identity. [Featured Image: Shows the stage set in the large lecture theatre in Bush House for the World Questions launch event. There are two empty chairs, and an orange screen behind reading ‘Hillary…
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UK: 100 Years of Women in Law
Eliška Stroehlein is a third year English Law – French Law student at Panthéon-Assas University Paris II with an interest in international law, queerness, and representation. [Featured Image: A faceless cartoon with long black hair wearing a white collar shirt and a black robe, holding a gavel and a folder. They are standing against a…
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Climate Change Movements – Why Are They White Dominated?
Assistant Features Editor Sagal Hassan is an MSc student in Global Affairs and a recent International Relations and History graduate. She is interested in history, international development and politics particularly regarding East Africa and the MENA region. [Featured Image: Extinction Rebellion protestors at a rally with their signature bright green, pink, and white signs.] During…
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Gender, Intersectionality, Politics & Current Affairs, Structural Sexism, Taboos, Violence Against Womxn
The Misogyny Behind Mass Shootings
Valentina Meo is a third year in History and International relations that loves to travel, read, and debate in Model United Nations. [Featured Image: A woman dressed in jeans and a tie-dye t-shirt, holding up a white sign with red writing saying “Enough is Enough”. In the background a group of people consisting mainly of…
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Why Climate Justice Must Be the Response to Climate Change
Contributor Eliška Stroehlein is a third year English Law – French Law student at Panthéon-Assas University Paris II with an interest in international law, queerness, and representation. [Image Description: a set of scales covered in greenery sit to the right of a green field, there is a blue sky with white clouds in the background]…
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Our Rights Won’t Remain
Contributor Eliška Stroehlein is a second year English Law – French Law student with an interest in international law, queerness, and representation. [Image Description: twelve yellow women’s symbols arranged in a circle on a navy blue background] AN: This article was researched and written over several weeks and finalised in the last week of February…
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Student Activism in the Era of Toxic Politics: Banning to Blacklisting
Current Events Reporter Isa Betoret García is a second year War Studies and History student attended the recent meeting with the Queen on March 19th. The same day, at least 10 KCL students had their student IDs blocked from entrance into any campus with the explanation that they were considered ‘security threats’. [Featured Image: Queen…
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Redefining Representation: Colonial Classrooms
Moshka Mehta first year International Relations student from India. In her free time she likes to address the issues of colonisation, representation and feminism. Currently struggling through studies and the angst of adulthood. [Featured Image: Two KCL students sitting and speaking in the Strand courtyard.] Just this morning, I was attending a lecture of International…
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