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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In class I’ve been asked why people say white people have privilege. So, let’s talk about it. Here’s my TikTok video and the script below: @racialliteracysolidarity ♬ original sound – RacialLiteracySolidarity The concept seems to have come from Peggy McIntosh’s 1989 essay, ‘White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack’. Peggy McIntosh’s list…
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Week 3 of The Racial State is on Whiteness, White Possession and White Supremacy. The philosopher of race, Helen Ngo has written a very good article discussing the potential problems with the concept of white privilege, ‘On white privilege, white priority and white supremacy’. I have adapted her essay to…
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I gave this talk a year ago, just after so-called ‘Harmony Day’. Thinking about white supremacy and white crisis’today so I thought I’d post it here in case of it’s of any use. My 8-year old daughter was getting ready for ‘Harmony Day’ the other day, laying out her Indian…
Comments closedI was happy to have been asked to speak alongside Uncle Ken Canning at Politics in the Pub in Sydney in March 2018. You can watch the video of the talk here:
Comments closedThe racism of the Brexit campaign set the scene for the murder of Jo Cox. Her brutal killing is continuous with Breivik’s Utoya massacre. Then as now the peddlers of hate, from the those who ‘bravely’ spoke of the failures of multiculturalism, to those inciting hooligans to taunt refugee children …
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