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Race critical understandings of methodology

This blogpost complements two I have already published in the Understanding Race series on questions of methodology in doing research that works critically with and against race as an analytical tool. In The place of race in developing epistemologies and methodologies I work through the issues raised in the slides…

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Newsletter No. 2

I have decided to move to SubStack to host my occasional newsletter. Please subscribe if you like! You can read it here

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Radical Antiracism Today Seminar 4: Abolition Revolution

Join us on Wednesday September 13 (7PM AEST / 10AM GMT) to discuss Abolition Revolution with authors Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean. They will be in conversation with Maria Giannacoupoulos. Register here. About the book: George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist shockwaves. Calls to defund the police…

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Towards a Grammar of Race: Radical Antiracism Today Seminar 3

I am delighted to share the recording of the 3rd ‘Radical Antiracism Today: New books in abolitionist, anticolonial, international antiracism‘ series with you. This event saw Quah Ee Ling in conversation with Mahdis Azarmandi and Garrick Cooper, two of the contributors to a volume published in Aotearoa New Zealand on…

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Australian Complicity in Israeli Apartheid – A Webinar

I’ll be chairing this webinar organised by Jews Against he Occupation and Tzedek Collective, Sydney with leading Palestinian activist and writer Omar Barghouti and best-selling Australian journalist, writer and film-maker Antony Loewenstein on Australian Complicity with Israeli Apartheid on Thursday September 28 7pm-8.30pm AEST. Please register here to join us.

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Understanding changing conceptions of race with Du Bois’ ‘The Concept of Race’

“Perhaps it is wrong to speak of it as ‘a concept’ rather than as a group of contradictory forces, facts and tendencies.’ W.E.B. Du Bois, The Concept of Race, 1940: 67 I think this year has got off to a good start on Understanding Race, the Masters course I have…

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Why aren’t we all crying from the rooftops about Blockade Australia?

Forgive me if I haven’t noticed because, you see, I have had to remove myself from Twitter, but I am informed on good authority that there hasn’t been much tweeting about Blockade Australia.  Returning almost a year after the Colo raids, when the environmentalist direct action group were arrested en…

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My new mailing list

As many people are experiencing, Twitter is becoming an unsafe and unproductive space especially since the take over by Elon Musk. As someone whose work has taken her far from her original networks, it has been an important space of education and solidarity building for me. However, it has become…

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Radical Antiracism Today: Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand

The third seminar in the Radical Antiracism Today: New Books in Abolitionist, Anticolonial, Internationalist Antiracism will take place on June 14 at 7PM Australian EST. Quah Ee Ling will be in conversation with Mahdis Azarmandi and Garrick Cooper, two of the contributors to Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa…

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