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 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…
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The 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…
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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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Since its adoption in 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) ‘working definition of antisemitism’, has been primarily used to censor pro-Palestinian activism and scholarship. The definition has been amply critiqued for its vague formulation of antisemitism: “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.” More…
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I was invited by the Revue Movements to contribute a reflection on the so-called war in critical race theory and how it plays out in Australia [in French] « La race imprègne de façon immuable la politique d’accaparement inhérente à la souveraineté blanche patriarcale, qui est souvent invisible et passée sous…
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As you know, unless you have been living under a rock (!), a war on something being named ‘critical race theory’ has been waged since the end of 2020. There are many explanations for the meaning of this, some of which I hope to be able to shed light on…
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I reviewed How To Lose Friends and Influence White People, a book being marketed as an antiracist manual, by Media Diversity Australia founder, Antoinette Lattouf. There is a concerning trend of so-called trade books referencing the brutal state murder of George Floyd as a vehicle for discussing issues of diversity…
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One of my many jobs is supervising maths homework. At the top of each exercise sheet is the command to ‘Show all working out’. I was thinking about this when reflecting about the common failure within academia to show the traces of our work, the lines that connect us to…
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To mark the 25th anniversary of the Council of Europe’s European youth Campaign against racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance “All Different-All Equal”, Gavan Titley has edited a series of essays including one of mine in which I reflect on my role as co-coordinator with Yael Ohana of the European Youth…
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