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 essay examines two sets of coronavirus-prevention guidelines issued by New York City’s health department in early spring 2020. The advised residents not to touch their faces “unless” they had washed hands but them masturbate “especially if” hands. Those recommendations reshaped Yorkers’ relationship bodies and, so doing, contributed a new permutation biopower. Drawing on several theories b...

Since the Stonewall uprisings, there has been greater social acceptance of homosexuality within Western contexts. Nevertheless, those who are at intersection more than one minority identity continue to face prejudice and discrimination, including homophobia racism. Though increasing work regarding experiences sexual people colour (POC), a lacuna remains British Muslim South Asian men integratio...

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of non-Muslim nurses caring for Muslim patients in Saudi Arabia. The study sought to understand from the perspective of nonMuslim nurses what it is like to care for Muslim patients in a religiously and culturally conservative society. The study is positioned within a framework of theories about transcultural nursing care and is primarily ...

The growing number and diversity of Muslims in the United States and Western Europe challenge clinicians and researchers to understand this population's perspectives and experiences regarding health and biomedicine. For information about Muslim patient populations, clinicians and researchers routinely consult medical literature. To examine how this literature portrays Muslims, we conducted an e...

virtual colonialism (ameli, 2011) is reflecting a new trend of colonialismin the virtual space parallel to the physical space. according to ameli(2007), withthe “dual spacization” of life,the imperial powers like the united states of americatake the advantage of the synchronization and translocality of the virtual space toexpand their realm of imperial power through the “attraction” and “persua...