politics
Stories that show what it means to be a person of colour navigating systems not made for us.
![If immigrants shrugged in Britain](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/GALDEM_BritainShrugged-1.jpg)
If immigrants shrugged in Britain
![Why hasn’t there been more coverage of Hurricane Matthew and Haiti?](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/14494630_1813962842220979_194211551298013891_n.jpg)
Why hasn’t there been more coverage of Hurricane Matthew and Haiti?
![As anti-immigrant rhetoric rises refugees suffer – and we can see it all on social media](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/refugee.png)
As anti-immigrant rhetoric rises refugees suffer – and we can see it all on social media
![Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee: imprisoned for writing an unpublished story in Iran](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/article-0-0BA1EC68000005DC-689_634x419.jpg)
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee: imprisoned for writing an unpublished story in Iran
![gal-dem in conversation with Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/10504930_820876712108_6766945751726219376_o.jpg)
gal-dem in conversation with Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
![‘We’re only allowed to claim Britishness if we adhere to respectability politics’](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/unnamed.jpg)
‘We’re only allowed to claim Britishness if we adhere to respectability politics’
![Oxford University’s first disabled African scholar is being prevented from beginning his studies](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/eddie.jpg)
Oxford University’s first disabled African scholar is being prevented from beginning his studies
![On being a black woman in political spaces](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Diane_Abbott_MP_delivering_her_keynote_speech_Children_and_public_health_putting_families_at_the_heart_of_policy_cropped.jpg)
On being a black woman in political spaces
![How can we better understand the traumatic births of WoC?](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/mom-and-newborn-baby-baby-feet.jpg)
How can we better understand the traumatic births of WoC?
![Voices from the Black Lives Matter #Shutdown in London](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/13938533_10154132978316281_2701774473899434876_n.jpg)
Voices from the Black Lives Matter #Shutdown in London
![Why Black Lives Matter in the UK](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Cm774gKXgAA_qMa-1.jpg)
Why Black Lives Matter in the UK
![Borderline Personality Disorder and me](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/tumblr_o9ssh9WeMy1ux87ado3_1280-2.png)