I tried to watch Go Back to Where You Came From on SBS last night, but when they got to the border camp in Jordan, where 200 of the 4 million-and-rising refugees fleeing Syria arrive by the day, I welled up. Every time I picture the camps I cry. Appearing in my newsfeed a littleContinue reading “Don’t stop the boats, stop the injustice”
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Colonisation in Reverse
Louise Bennett (1919-2006) I’m sharing a poem I first came across in the 80s when I was studying a course with the Open University, UK, called, ‘Third World Studies.’ It was a brilliant multidisciplinary introduction to the North South divide. Hats off to the OU for that seminal moment in my life. The 80s seemContinue reading “Colonisation in Reverse”
Isobel Blackthorn 