I was asked to speak at an important event organised by the Italian University workers for Palestine Network to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2025, Proteggere la Memoria: la Shoah, Gaza e la storia (Protect Memory: the Shoah, Gaza and History). 27 January has been the annual International Day of…
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I’ll be using SubStack to write about various matters. Lately I have written on why it is dangerous for antiracist groups to advocate for legislating against ‘hate crimes’ and the bizarre case against journalist Antoinette Lattouf by her former employer, the ABC, which suggested that because it is difficult to…
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My new book, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy, will be out on May 20 2025 with Pluto Press. As Robin D.G. Kelley puts it, ‘anti-wokeness is the perfect example of the functioning of the racial regime.’ Taking the reader beyond the distracting framings of culture wars and…
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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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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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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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