I was delighted to have been invited by the LIME Network and Professor Lilon Bandler to speak on a panel on racism and health education as part of the 2021 Staying Connected conference along with Donna Cormack, Marcia Anderson, Donald Whaleboat and the brilliant chairing of…
In Week 12, we will have a guest lecture from author of Radical Skin, Moderate Masks, Dr Yassir Morsi. Watch Yassir discuss his book together with author of The Muslims Are Coming!, Arun Kundnani here:
I’ve tried to use TikTok. It is full-on the hardest thing ever to get right, so I am not sure how many videos I will actually end up producing! However, as a conversation started for Week 1 of The Racial State, I have produced a TiTok…
In Week 2 of The Racial State, we discuss how race and racism are constructed, how racialisation operates and what effect race and racism have on everyday lives. Part of what those affected by racism have to navigate and cope with are the endless opinions about…
Thanks to the 500+ people who signed the Open Letter coordinated and written By Andrew Brooks (with some inout form me). The letter calls out the Australian Senate’s rejection of critical race theory. It was published in Overland Magazine. The signatories of this letter oppose the…
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…
The Masters of Research course I run at Western Sydney University is back, beginning on July 23. As usual if you want to come along (face-to-face only) or are along with us, you are welcome. Usually, the course has a special theme. In 2019 that was…
Debbie Bargallie and I wrote about the Australian right’s attack on Critical Race Theory as a signalled by Liberal senator and Assistant Attorney General, Amanda Stoker’s pressure on the Australian Human Rights’s Commission to drop a recent tender after it invoked ‘anti racism’ which she said…
Andrew Brooks has reviewed Why Race Still Matters for the Sydney Review of Books. I am very grateful for the care he took to relate to the book through a wide engagement with the politics of race in colonial Australia and what it means for his…
UPDATE: You can now watch a recording of this event here I will be speaking online about ‘Antisemitism and the Proxification of Antiracism’, the subject of the 4th chapter of Why Race Still Matters to the University of Edinburgh Race.Ed seminar series on February 17. The…