Remi Olokun

‘Paki’. ‘Go back to where you came from.’ ‘You’re not British.’ These phrases aren’t unique to one individual’s experience. They are phrases common to the experience of being South Asian in Britain. Almost as if your identity being questioned because ‘you don’t look British’ is a rite of passage. The constant dehumanisation and villainisation of South Asians in British media has resulted in this harmful rhetoric seeping into the mindsets of the wider British public. From Kirandeep Kaur to...

Hey everybody, welcome to March’s Squad Spotlight. I'm Eden, and today we are catching up with fellow Squad Ambassador, Stefano Di Rico Thank you so much, Stefano, for agreeing to be interviewed. So, how did you get involved in the Squad? I think it was the evening before the General Election, and I went to a Democracy Café that MLMS was hosting in partnership with Headspace, as someone I've worked with before had posted about it. I remember meeting Dan and Paris that evening and being told...

Trad wives. Deepfakes. Manosphere. Lexicons which seemed unknown to us ten years ago are now in our everyday jargon. As the world changes (a bit too fast), and AI and social media seem to hold a tight grasp on the running of our lives, it is no wonder that women’s rights are affected. From the far-right rallies we have seen sweep across the nation, to the increase in misogynistic content on social media and the loss of bodily autonomy in the USA, the rise in fascism we have seen has cast a...