Decolonise, Defy, Disrupt

Mainstream narratives of the trans and gender-diverse people tend to focus on resilience in the face of hardship. It is time to move past this one-dimensional narrative and ask why the hardships never seem to go away.

Viewpoint: When the power to kill thousands lies at the push of a button, who gets to decide who is disposable?

No area is safe in the Gaza Strip and no one is safe in the Gaza Strip; this is the necropolitics of Genocide.

Viewpoint: Cognitive dissonance and public delusion have been weaponized to drive Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

This article looks at the effects of armed conflict on healthcare systems in Gaza at the intersection of international humanitarian aid, settler colonialism and the ethics of war. Since October 7, 2023, there has been a systemic assault on the health services in Gaza, rooted in colonial expansion. I begin with an overview of human rights and the concept of medical neutrality. This is followed by biopolitics within Gaza and the contradictions in international law regarding the ethics of war. Explained through the lens of historical revisionism, postcolonial theory and biopolitics, I attempt to highlight how healthcare systems are increasingly becoming targets of armed conflict in Gaza as a war strategy.

“The power to narrate, or to block other narratives from forming and emerging, is very important to culture and imperialism, and constitutes one of the main connections between them.” -Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism

Why it’s okay to self-soothe when a genocide needs our attention