This is a beautifully written but structurally flawed critique of global displacement. Nation of Strangers suffers from a jarring blind spot by attempting to equate the author’s jet-setting, privileged exile with the harrowing reality of the truly stateless.
Category: Colonialism
Silicon Valley’s Benin Bronzes: The Shared Logic of Museum Looting and AI Scraping
We must recognize that the fight against unregulated, predatory AI models is not merely a niche legal battle over copyright infringement or digital licensing. It is a deeply political, inherently decolonial struggle. It is a continuation of the exact same resistance that indigenous and colonized communities have been waging for centuries against the institutional forces that seek to commodify, centralize, and erase human history.
Recognising Palestine: The Ghost of Britain’s Past
Lest we forget, the British and its fellow white European colonisers carved up the whole of Africa, and parts of Asia, creating borders and nations that are still in conflict today. What is the point of even learning history in Britain, if in 2025 we are still making the same mistakes as 1884. White men don’t get to tell us how to govern our lands. Sudan, Congo, Kashmir, and Palestine are live examples of the conflicts imperialism has left in its wake. Our blood is not cheap and our resistance is defined by us, not your recognition of us.
This Hybrid Reads 