In recent years, Swedish women belonging to a post-migrant generation have made their voices against racism and social inequality prominent within public debate. Engaging in segregated economically deprived suburbs, these make use of art order counter stereotypical narratives themselves communities. Based on interviews from two research projects, Accessing Utopia Gendered Islamophobia Sweden, t...

Following its formation in 2013, Black Lives Matter (BLM) has evolved into an important social and political movement. However, the organization’s efforts to oppose racial inequality police brutality through protest routinely have been met with a violent response by law enforcement, including employment of various “less-lethal” weapons. This article aims explore analyze ways which tear gas used...

This research attempted to delve into the Indonesian and English lecturers’ views on othering experiences through metaphorical lens. The data collection employed interviews with ten lecturers teaching at two public universities in Aceh, Indonesia. were recorded transcribed, further analyzed using Johnson Lakoff’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) where a metaphor is referred understanding experi...

Much Gothic literature touches upon the concepts of familial injustice, disconnect from origin, and ill-treatment "monstrously-othered" or abandoned child. Certain works fiction mirror those judicial discourses that involve contentious issues unknown ancestry, not least anonymous gamete donation cross-border surrogacy. Three novels in particular see their characters rendered monstrous by law, s...