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Soprano Pretty Yende has been chosen to perform at the coronation of UK monarch King Charles III. Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images

February 23, 2023

Pretty Yende, a South African opera star with a voice that shatters glass ceilings

Wayne Muller, Stellenbosch University

Performing at the coronation of King Charles III will be just one of many firsts for the activist soprano.

The UK’s high potential individual visa demonstrates short-sightedness about the experience, insights and skills that graduates from the global South could bring to the UK. Shutterstock

June 21, 2022

UK work visa for elite graduates is exclusive and based on flawed assumptions

Orla Quinlan, Rhodes University

The UK is offering an elite visa for well-off graduates from elite institutions to stay temporarily in the UK.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks in Toronto’s Pride parade in June, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

June 8, 2022

Challenging the whiteness of queer organizations

Cameron Greensmith, Kennesaw State University

Decolonial work is necessary. Queer people, communities and organizations have a responsibility to work toward undoing historical and contemporary wrongs.

Many cities have used spikes on ledges and other spaces to prevent (usually homeless) people from sleeping or sitting on them. from shutterstock.com

August 5, 2018

Designed features can make cities safer, but getting it wrong can be plain frightening

Paul Cozens, Curtin University

Design principles, known as ‘crime prevention through environmental design’, are used all over the world to make cities safer. But some of these principles can be discriminatory and hostile.

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