Placing “Vote No” leaflets under doors at the time of Australian referendum to make Australian Communist Party illegal 1951. I was 9 years old.

When I was growing up in North Carolina, it was still very segregated. I must have been 5 years old when my mum explained racism to me and told me […]

When I was a child in the 1970s/80s, I remember heated discussions between my father and his brother in law. After a meal the talk often turned to politics, Thatcher’s […]

given tape-worm test in first grade to take home (in Taiwan) being corrected / shamed to speak a language correctly

A teacher at school was handing out womens rights stickers. When we got into class, everyone realised they had no idea why they were wearing them. Our teacher told us […]

Great-Grandad comments Unaware offensive terms (Racism)

Round my family table when mu northern grandad told me about Margaret Thatcher closing down the mines when he used to work there. Learning about the womens rights to vote […]

My earliest memory was my mother saying we could all be killed in a nuclear war when explaining what the Cuban Missile Crisis was about.

Occupy Central when I studyed in the H.D, Stand for the Umbrella Movement and Hong Kong Federation of Students, to fight for our right to vote, choosing the Chief Executive […]

My first political memory was when I was about 8 years old. I came home and found my mum in the kitchen crying while listening to the radio. I asked […]