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A rallying cry
I spent many years trying to ignore my blackness. A futile effort growing up in an almost all-white area of rural Britain. The differences were not just in how I looked but also in the experiences I had and would continue to have for the rest of my life.
In a world where racism exists, we can’t ignore race. The US as a country has been forced to realize this through viral videos of the killing of black people, and the galvanizing power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has become a global force.
Black Lives Matter has become a rallying cry for a generation of black activists around the world, from the US to the UK, Australia to Brazil – as featured in this month’s The Big Story.
As they build links across borders, one of the most empowering things about these struggles is that they make their blackness a source of strength, building on a long history of black resistance. There are so many stories to tell – many more than would fit in this magazine.
Elsewhere, we explore other forms of resistance – including the bravery of an indigenous lawyer in Mexico, fighting to protect her community from oil companies; and, after five years, we revisit Mozambique where landowners are continuing to resist being bought out by foreign firms. n
This month’s contributors include:
Vanessa Martina Silva lives in São Paulo, Brazil. She is a journalist, bureau chief of Brasil de Fato and co-founder of Diálogos do Sul magazine.
Jamilah King is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently the rac e and justice reporter at Mother Jones, and previously worked at Mic and Colorlines.
To celebrate IWD this month, Myriad is publishing a feminist hat-trick: The Inking Women celebrates 250 years of women cartoon and comic artists; Marie Duval rediscovers the life and work of a ground-breaking Victorian cartoonist; and Ruth Figgest’s gloriously wry debut novel, Magnetism, unfolds an entangled motherdaughter relationship. Candida Lacey and Corinne Pearlman for Myriad and the New Internationalist Co-operative Amy Hal for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org
Celebrating International Women’s Day… Myriad’s merger with New Internationalist means we can look forward to some excellent feminist books including, later this year, a new edition of Joni Seager’s bestselling Atlas of Women and Sohaila Abdulali’s conversation-changing What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape.
Girma Berta is a selftaught, award-winning artist from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is an advocate for young people ‘taking control of their own stories’.
Kam Sandhu is a freelance journalist and editor of Real Media, a co-operative dedicated to public-interest journalism.
Use code IWD18 to get 10% off The Inking Woman until 15 April at ethicalshop.org
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