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The rhythms that broke Bashir: how Sudan’s music shaped a revolution
Music created the networks, identities and spaces of trust that made collective political action possible in Sudan’s 2019 revolution.
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Ulysses in isiZulu: why an African translation of the classic Irish novel matters in today’s world
Writers from very different places can grapple with the same questions.
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When ‘man’ didn’t mean humanity: How language excluded women for centuries
Language that fails to explicitly name women has historically excluded them. And that exclusion is an active, reversible mechanism that’s now resurfacing.
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How an El Niño becomes a super El Niño
Climate expert Ioana Colfescu talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about predicting the impact of El Niño.
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Why the UK government needed to apologise for its role in historic forced adoptions in England
In a religious culture rooted in shame, up to half a million children in the UK and Ireland were put up for adoption without their mothers’ consent.
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Smartphones are helping filmmakers tell the stories the movie industry overlooks
I wanted to make a film about solo parenting in all its messiness, the highs, but also the lows. I shot with my smartphone, almost daily, for nearly two decades.
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Immigration and asylum bill: why yet another attempt to overhaul the system won’t work
If passed, it will be the fifth immigration act adopted in five parliamentary sessions.
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State of emergency in Crimea as Ukraine focuses pressure on ‘jewel in Putin’s crown’
Crimea has been the symbol of the success of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But now the peninsula is becoming isolated as Kyiv intensifies its attacks.
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Confessions II: why Madonna still matters
There are many more female artists in the 2020s than the early 1980s, but none is as iconoclastic as Madonna, more than 40 years on from her debut.
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The Bayeux tapestry and the hidden history of the women who embroidered it
The 70-metre embroidery will be displayed at the British Museum from September.
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How did it feel to be an American colonist in 1776? Probably itchy, achy and slightly nauseated
The medical tools of the Revolutionary period help flesh out the picture of what physical well-being felt like for people living in the American colonies 250 years ago.
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Alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs, yet its presence is ubiquitous in social settings and celebrations
Despite growing evidence of alcohol’s harms, it remains deeply embedded in social norms and cultural rituals, both in the US and abroad.