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A graphic essay based on Chapter 2 of Why Race Still Matters has been published by The New Socialist. Visit the site for close ups! Take a tour on Prezi ‘I’m not racist but…’ Why is this conversation starter always followed up with the most egregious recitations of racism? This…
Comments closedFor Week 6 of Politics, Power and Resistance we build upon our learning on Indigenous resistance and Deaf Palestinians, as well as Capitalism and the Coloniality of Power to discuss how Indigenous people and Palestinians in australia are building solidarity and resistance. Indigenous people living under settler colonial rule in…
Comments closedThis week Politics, Power and resistance is joined by Dr Ryan Al-Natour. Dr Al-Natour is a Palestinian-Australian scholar who is a lecturer in the School of Education at Charles Sturt University. Ryan has qualifications in Auslan (Australian Sign Language) and is very active as an interpreter (in training) for the…
Comments closedIt has been a slow start to the semester as I have been down with Covid. Workplaces are noxious when it comes to the spread of the virus which I caught a particularity nasty bout of at a meeting held in an airless and overcrowded room. The mantra of personal…
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Comments closedSince the start of the genocide in Palestine, a group of staff and students have been organising for Palestine at Western Sydney University. You can find a link to our activities, including the open letter signed by over 430 staff and students here.
Comments closedI helped co-edit a blog series over at the Identities blog on Gaza, Solidarity and the Right to Protest. The series brings together five posts by Ronit Lentin, Clive Gabay and Rachel Solnick, Waqas Tufail and Sherene Fernandez, Tom Six and Anna-Esther Younes. You can access each of these fantastic…
Comments closedI published an article in Black Agenda Report based on the talk I gave to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the publication of Black Marxism: The making of the Black radical tradition by Cedric J. Robinson. I hope to share a redcording of the event at which I was honoured…
Comments closedPlease join us for the 6th and final seminar in the Radical Antiracism Today: New Books in Abolitionist, Anticolonial, Internationalist Antiracism online seminar series. Thursday 16 November at 9 AM-10.30 AM AEDT / 5PM Wednesday (Toronto) Register here About this event: Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson join us to…
Comments closedI was asked to speak at the Structural Inequalities in the Clinical Neurosciences Course Conference, St George’s University of London on 3 November 2023. Here are my remarks. I would like to thank Jeremy Isaacs, Catherine Doogan and the team of the MSc in Clinical Neuroscience Practice for inviting me to…
Comments closedI am delighted to announce that Ruth Wilson Gilmore will be joining us on October 19th at 9 AM (Sydney) / October 18th 6PM (New York) to discuss her book Abolition Geography for the 5th instalment of our online seminar series, Radical Anti-Racism Today: New books in abolitionist, anticolonial, internationalist…
Comments closedThe lead-up to the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to parliament is replete with text-book case after text-book case of what I have called ‘Not Racism™’. Not Racism is something anyone who has faced racism knows about. In an article I published in 2017 on the subject, the title the editors…
Comments closedWe were delighted host Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean in conversation with Maria Giannacopoulos for the fourth in our seminar series, Radical Antiracism Today: New books in abolitionist, anticolonial, internationalist antiracism. Under discussion was Aviah and Shanice’s brilliant and thought-provoking, but also highly practical, book Abolition Revolution. Please…
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