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Racial Capitalism & Gaza

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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Last in the Radical Antiracism Today online seminar series: Rehearsals for Living

Please join us for the 6th and final seminar in the Radical Antiracism Today: New Books in Abolitionist, Anticolonial, Internationalist Antiracism online seminar series. Thursday 16 November at 9 AM-10.30 AM AEDT / 5PM Wednesday (Toronto) Register here About this event: Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson join us to…

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Talking about race and decolonisation with a genocide going on

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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Ruth Wilson Gilmore joins us for Radical Antiracism Today

I am delighted to announce that Ruth Wilson Gilmore will be joining us on October 19th at 9 AM (Sydney) / October 18th 6PM (New York) to discuss her book Abolition Geography for the 5th instalment of our online seminar series, Radical Anti-Racism Today: New books in abolitionist, anticolonial, internationalist…

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Not Racism™, the Voice Referendum and white progressive anxiety

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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Abolition Revolution: Radical Antiracism Today

We were delighted host Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean in conversation with Maria Giannacopoulos for the fourth in our seminar series, Radical Antiracism Today: New books in abolitionist, anticolonial, internationalist antiracism. Under discussion was Aviah and Shanice’s brilliant and thought-provoking, but also highly practical, book Abolition Revolution. Please…

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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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