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 was touched to have been awarded the School of Humanities and Communication Arts Researcher of the Year award 2020 at my institution, Western Sydney University. The prize was awarded for the paper, ‘Looking As White: anti-racism apps, appearance and racialized embodiment’, published in the journal Identities, and soon in…
Comments closedSlam, the latest movie by my partner, writer-director Partho Sen-Gupta, is playing at the Sydney Film Festival on June 15 & 16 2019. Described by Rough Cut as, ‘upend[ing] the anodyne images that dominate Australian cinema’ and named in Dirty Movies top ten films of 2018, Slam is an unapologetically…
Comments closedJustine Humphry and I have launched a new website for our work on digital antiracisms. Please visit to stay abreast of events, publications and other initiatives including the recent visit tp Sydney of Jessie Daniels, author of White Lies and Cyber Racism. Save
Comments closedThis post has had to have been updated to another death of a young man – a victim of state racism leading directly to the neglect of his health and ultimately the loss of his life – on Nauru on May 11 2016. Rakib – from Bangladesh, died of multiple…
Comments closedI was asked by the Campaign to Stop the Deportation of Luqman Onikosi and Luqman himself to write an article drawing attention to his case and, crucially, to the infiltration of the border into all realms of life. Luqman is adamant that this campaign not be framed in the individualist…
Comments closedMy talk on antisemitism and philosemitism has been translated into French by Grégory Bekhtari for the French journal, Contretemps. L’article récent d’Houria Bouteldja du Parti des indigènes de la république, « Racisme(s) et philosémitisme d’État », tentait d’éclairer le récit national autour de l’antisémitisme à travers le soutien occidental à l’État d’Israël.…
Comments closedI am happy to present the trailer for Sunrise, the beautiful film by my partner, the Indian director Partho Sen-Gupta. The film premiered at the Busan International Film Festival, Mumbai Film Festival, Dharamshala Film Festival, the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights and has just been announced in…
Comments closedI was pleased to find out that my article, ‘Post-Race, Post Politics: the paradoxical rise of culture after multiculturalism’ made the list of ‘most-read’ articles among Taylor and Francis journals. The article was published in Ethnic and Racial Studies in which I have two more articles appearing over the next…
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The Case for Open Borders
This article was originally published in Overland on August 5, 2013. Underlying Bernard Keane’s article – ‘“Let them all come” is “stop the boats” for progressives’ – is a deep sense of indignation about the idea that Australians are racist. The oft-repeated argument is that elitist, disconnected, latte-sippers tut-tut over…