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Siobhan McGuirk

Siobhán McGuirk is an academic, Red Pepper co-editor, and editor of Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry (PM Press, 2020)

Siobhán McGuirk is an academic, Red Pepper co-editor, and editor of Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry (PM Press, 2020)

  • A group of people look up at a statue of a horse made from scrap metal, with roads and buildings in the background. The statue is in Jenin, Palestine

    Art in atrocity: Palestine and the destruction of culture

    Palestinian artists are being silenced in Gaza and all around the world. Their work must continue speaking volumes, says Siobhán McGuirk

  • On the steps of a government building, protestors hold signs for (a young girl smiling in the foreground) and against (a mixed-age crowd in the background) same-sex marriage

    Right to divorce

    As right-wing parties threaten LGBTQ+ communities, we must defend hard-won legal rights while still fighting for a more radical liberation, says Siobhan McGuirk

  • Against a yellow background there are images of the Empire Windrush ship, a colonial-era British Subject passport and stamp, and the 1968 Nationality Act

    Embedding racism: a brief history of border violence

    Siobhan McGuirk charts the development of UK borders and citizenship policies since the early 1900s

  • A child lies in a hospital bed, alert and smiling up at a man, Aneurin Bevan, and two women dressed in nurses uniforms typical of the 1940s, on the first day of the National Health Service

    Anchors for hope: The uses of nostalgia

    Nostalgia can inspire action towards a more just society, says Siobhan McGuirk, if we remember without romanticising socialist victories past

  • Six people pose in brightly coloured clothes and balaclavas

    Riot daze

    In the current political climate, despair come easy. From Pussy Riot to queer cabaret, we must find hope in one another, argues Siobhan McGuirk

  • A man with a bandaged face and a traffic warden uniform standing guard with a rifle in a still from the 1984 film Threads

    Navigating the apocalypse through popular culture

    From plague and pandemics to zombies and ‘cli-fi’, apocalyptic narratives have long reflected and shaped the anxieties of our age, write Siobhan McGuirk and Marzena Zukowska

  • A grand white building with columns – the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre

    A real ‘culture war’ rages in Ukraine

    Russia targeting Ukrainian museums follows a long history of imperial powers looting and despoiling cultural wealth, argues Siobhan McGuirk