Debbie Bargallie and I have produced a guide to racial literacy, ‘Key Concepts and Definitions for Building Racial Literacy.‘ This guide contains 28 definitions and 5 longer explainers of key concepts about race, racism, antiracism, colonialism, and anticolonialism. While the guide was produced with the australian context in mind, it…
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The Radical Antiracism Today seminar series hosted by Culture & Society at Western Sydney University invites you to celebrate the publication of Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies: Breaking the Silence, edited by Debbie Bargallie and Nilmini Fernando and published in the Decolonizaton & Social Worlds series at Bristol University Press. REGISTER HERE The…
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A 3-part interview I did with Radio Blue Mountains Rights, Rorts and Rants show in May 2024.
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I was asked to give a guest lecture in my colleague Arunima Das’ course, Politics of Sex & Gender: Gender & Race. I was especially delighted as Arinima was my PhD student and to has been such a joy working alongside her now as a colleague at Western Sydney University.…
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A seminar held at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University on 11 November 2024 with Ronit Lentin, Amani Haydar and myself, and chaired by Juan Francisco Salazar. How do academics and cultural workers draw attention to the collusion by their institutions without falling into the trap…
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This 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…
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It 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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I wrote on SubStack about being ‘as well as can be expected’
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Since 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.
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I 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…
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I 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…
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I spoke to Andy Fleming and Cam Smith on the Yeah Nah Pasaran podcast about Gaza and why, among other things, actual direct action is not the same as talking about direct action.
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