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Muslim Job Candidates Face Discrimination

Posted on Tuesday, 30 May, 2017Thursday, 21 May, 2026 by Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

A Middle Eastern woman wearing a pink hijab stands in a room, with her arms crossed

A new study shows women with “Muslim” names have to send 1.4 times as many job applications as women with Anglo-sounding names to be considered by employers, and women in hijab need to send 4.5 times as many applications.

Whitewashing White Supremacy

Posted on Sunday, 4 December, 2016Monday, 25 May, 2026 by Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

The back torso of a white man in a painter's white overalls, holding a white bucket, getting ready to paint and empty room

White supremacy is an ideology promoting the racial superiority of white people. One of the key ways white supremacy retains its power is through language that “naturalises” white dominance, making the current social order seem natural, normal, and logical. The recent editorial direction by the New York Times of how to refer to the “alt right” plays into white supremacist ideology, by sanitising its political aims and making its ideology more palatable.