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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I am delighted to hare the recording of my conversation with Anna-Esther Younes, chaired by Max Haiven at the Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin in June 2023!
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Podcaster, poet, author and organiser, Too Black, from one of my favourite podcasts, The Black Myths Podcast, joined me to talk about the documentary, ‘The Pendleton 2: They Stood Up’ and the Defence Committee to Free the Pendleton 2. The Pendleton 2 are John “Balagoon” Cole & Christopher “Naeem” Trotter.…
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For the second in our series we were joined by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean to discuss their collection, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Writing, with Andrew Brooks. A wide ranging discussion that tethered these 20th century writings and the activism and theorisation of their authors to movement building…
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On April 19, we held the first in the Radical Antiracism Today seminar series with Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley, in conversation with Debbie Bargallie on their book Fractured: Race, Class and Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics. I am delighted to share the recording with you. (I apologise…
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I invited Black Peoples Union National President, Yuin man, Keiran Stewart-Assheton to present to The Racial State in Week 6 when we discuss the colonisation of the continent of Australia. In a short but encompassing talk, he addresses the history of Indigenous peoples, the impact of colonisation, Australia’s position as…
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I am posting this on the International Trans Day of Visibility 2023 in love and solidarity with all people resisting the violences of gender, often with their own lives. May we do all we can to fight to protect them. Political transphobia has been on stark display over the last…
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I was delighted that PhD researcher, Black Studies scholar and all round legend, Khadijah Diskin agreed to do a short interview with me about the The Limitations of ‘White Privilege’ Khadijah has previously written about this topic and so I was eager to ask her to share her critique with…
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This week’s focus is the Coloniality of Power. I begin by establishing what is at stake using Russia’s current war on Ukraine as an example. It has not escaped notice that the approach to the 3 million Ukrainian refugees who have so far fled the country has been markedly different…
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In the last while I have participated in two events that have given me the chance to speak about the fourth chapter of my book, Why Race Still Matters, ‘GoodJew/Bad Jew’. On November 24th, I spoke at the opening panel of the German Rat für Migration’s annual conference, ‘Body and…
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I was delighted to gave been invited by Luke De Noronha to chat with Gargi Bhattacharyya about matters of race online at the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation. We focused on their approach to racial capitalism in their book Rethinking racial Capitalism which…
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