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Various oil portraits of Victorian women blur into each other, overlapping and blending in unsettling ways; all of them looki

August 15, 2024

“Everything a Woman Ought to Know”

byKatie Dancey-Downs

A film still from Astonishing Little Feet, a short film about Afong Moy by Maegan Hoaung. We see the back of the actress play

February 7, 2024

What Did Afong Moy Dream About?

January 20, 2022

Edited out of history: the Jewish women who fought the Nazis

byRokhl Kafrissen

June 15, 2021

'The Pursuit of Love': a sanitized portrait of the Nazi-loving Mitford sisters

June 10, 2021

'A lack of compassion': Canada’s shameful history of medical colonialism

byToula Drimonis

May 27, 2021

The fascism is already here, but we can't see it through the lens of exceptionalism

byAnna Lind-Guzik

December 4, 2020

'Potential Histories: Unlearning Imperialism': a review of Ariella Azoulay's new book

August 9, 2019

Who will write our history? The world looks away while Idlib awaits its fate

byElizabeth Tsurkov

July 19, 2019

Back to the future: How Palestine can pull itself out of the 1980s

June 6, 2019

This is how China's political dissidents keep historical memory alive

byJessica McKenzie

May 24, 2019

Make bilingualism great

byRokhl Kafrissen

Poster for Aurat March 2018

March 15, 2019

Pakistan’s feminist revolution: the second generation