Monthly Archives: June 2025

Unit 2 – Blog post 3: Racial visibility // Structural blindness

Coming to the UK, I was struck by how openly ethnicity and religion are requested in university applications. As I wrote in my previous blog post on religion, this was unsettling. In France, where I grew up, collecting racial data … Continue reading

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Unit 2 – Blog 2: Faith, Belief and the Weight of Intersectionality: Between Laïcité (french model of secularism) and Inclusion

Kwame Anthony Appiah (2014) provocatively states that “there isn’t such a thing as a religion,” citing, among others, a Jewish rabbi who does not believe in God. Religion, he argues, is often a reductive label applied to complex cultural, historical, … Continue reading

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Unit 2 – Blog 1: Disability and Intersectionality: Systemic Barriers and Shared Responsibilities

UAL defines disability in line with the Equality Act 2010 as “a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on a person’s ability to do normal daily activities” (UAL, 2023). UAL also adopts the social … Continue reading

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