Author: camilabassi
Expanding our understanding of racism and anti-racist politics (Dr Camila Bassi, Professor Alastair Bonnett and Kenan Malik)
Multiracism by Professor Alastair Bonnett, Not So Black and White by Kenan Malik and Outcast by Dr Camila Bassi, while in some respects very different books, share one common goal: to expand our enquiry and understanding on the nature of racism and the anti-racist project. Multiracism is an empirically rich exploration that traverses the globe to re-conceptualise the origins and trajectories […]
Racist anti-Zionism: the boycott of Third Rock
Let’s start with some fundamental political positions: 1948 was the moment when Israeli Jews took up the right to national self-determination on territory already occupied by Palestinian Arabs, and 1948 (the Nakba) was the moment when Palestinian Arabs were denied their right to national self-determination on the same territory; the Israeli state and military occupation […]
On gender critical feminism, anti-trans ideology and ‘the Jewish question’
This presentation explores the fusion of anti-trans ideology with ‘the Jewish question’. It seems remarkable to me that those who see and call out antisemitism on the Left have remained so silent for so long about a mainstream propaganda text of gender critical feminism ridden with a transphobic and antisemitic conspiracy theory.
Feminism and the Rise of the Far Right: Kavita Krishnan and Sian Norris
Below is a full recording of the opening plenary of All The Rage! 2024, an annual socialist feminist event organised by Workers’ Liberty. Guest speakers: Kavita Krishan (author of “Fearless Freedom”) and Sian Norris (author of “Bodies Under Siege”).
Freaks of nature: on anti-trans viscerality
Within anti-trans discourse that assumes the voice of reason and science, one frequently finds imagery inciting a visceral affect of revulsion, which drives and reinforces a narrative of threat. In this GB News footage below on the case of Lia Thomas, one finds an academic voice of reason and science interpolated with (from GB News) […]
Anaemic On A Bike 