Every time I read about the events in America, I am taken aback by the unfurled dogmatism of the US conservatives. When I read about the leaked document Supreme Court that is poised to eliminate federal protections for abortion as we know it, my emotional palette moved from rage, confusion, and despair, to shock.

We are far from the colonial period when there was a sharp stratification of who was thought to deserve medical aid, but the residues of European imperialism are still evident.

This essay explores the history of modern gynecology and the role that Black women played.

Infertility stung me. During my two-year efforts to get pregnant, I sought insights from family and friends.

For International Women’s Day, I wanted to think about how to work towards ending gender discrimination in science.

Carolyn Lazard and I discussed avant-garde film, Blackness, and disability.

What a new German-language film tells us about what it means to find love as a queer person of colour

Who cleans the world? Depending on who you ask, the question isn’t so direct. Some might think about their own household and reflect on the person who never cleans the toilet or the person who happens to be too busy to do the dishes.

Many know about the Black Panther Party's iconic fashion—the berets that rested on their illustrious Afros or their well-fitted Black attire that created unity on their marches. But few have looked closely at the Black Panthers' political iconography, which anchored their radical politics to their understanding about land, colonialism, and space.

On a chilly late November afternoon, 150 people gathered at Lübeck airport in Schleswig-Holstein to be injected with a substance they had been told would protect them from Covid-19. The unauthorised vaccine was developed by Dr Winfried Stöcker, who didn’t carry out proper clinical trials but did test it on himself.

During my final episode with the Decolonization in Action Podcast, I interviewed Zoé Samudzi and we spoke about Black radical politics, German colonial science, and more.