The New Context

The Student Journal of International Affairs at The New School

Shona Kambarami

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Safety Pin Activism: It’s Not So Easy

There has been wide criticism in America of importing the post-Brexit idea of allies wearing a safety pin in solidarity with minorities, as a response to the heartbreaking election of Donal Trump. In general, the  critique has been valid – it’s too easy a form […]

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Opinion: Yup, that’s racist.

I was in a class this week when my professor used the word “blacks”. It is an informal class at a liberal college and she is a left-leaning, informed teacher who is usually pretty cool. So I didn’t think it […]

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Rent-A-Womb

The International Gestational Surrogacy Market is a form of Exploitation “Our miracle baby is finally here,” wrote Tyra Banks, on announcing the birth of her first child by gestational surrogate on Instagram. Even more remarkable is that their first child […]

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ABOUNADDARA: The Right to the Image

What is a revolution? If you ask Charif Kiwan, the exiled Syrian and one of three named members of Abounaddara, he would answer that, in the case of Syria, it is a demand for dignity.   Abounadarra is an anonymous […]