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Our #Allyship Community Learning Series was delivered today by @_TheOtherBox.
The session gave advice on how workplaces can improve their allyship to be inclusive & equitable whilst giving tips for individuals to use daily to be better allies.
Look at some highlights below👇
Out 17 Mar: Allelujah - a heartwarming, touching story about navigating old age & tackling important social issues like NHS cuts in the UK w Jennifer Saunders & newcomer @BallyGill_. This is a huge win for #SouthAsianRepresentation! Watch the trailer here: https://t.co/SuTc2THuSR
I am grateful for @amiera_tales & @noorafiraq, Layla F. Saad's "Me and White Supremacy", @_TheOtherBox , @ARDTakeAction for opportunities to broaden my perspective. We're all in a White Supremacy and sometimes get it wrong BUT we must keep working to be better 2/2
Actor and Author @DavidHarewood sits down with our CEO and Founder Sima Kumar - The conversation focuses on David’s book, Maybe I Don’t Belong Here. Listen to the powerful, 15-minute conversation between the children of immigrants here 👉🏽 https://t.co/uK5Z98rndE
...which has traditionally always focussed on white spaces, normalises Diwali as part of the cultural landscape because the world is already diverse. (4/4)
#CondeNastTraveller#Diwali#LondonEvents#TheOtherBox
Last night our co-founder @Leyyax attended a Diwali celebration hosted by @cntraveller with author @poornabell at @TheSavoyLondon. The event was a testament to what happens when South Asian women are placed in a position of leadership: Representation. #Representationmatters (1/4)
It was an honour to have Other Box represented in a room with so many smart & beautiful people. To see Diwali celebrated via a live event hosted by a luxury travel magazine... (3/4)
White-passing privilege only exists because a white-supr*macist system puts whiteness at the centre of power, while people of the global majority, particularly in the West, are marginalised and minoritised.
#DiversityDictionary#WhitePassing#WhitePassingPrivilege
DIVERSITY DICTIONARY: WHITE-PASSING. When a person of the global majority (Black, indigenous or person of colour) is mistaken for being white. This could be by accident, based on assumption by others, or it may be a deliberate choice (more on that below)
#diversitydictionary
It’s important not to over-simplify the complexities of passing as white. White-passing privilege is not the same as white privilege. This is explored in films like Passing (@Netflix adaptation of 1929 novel by Nella Larsen) and novels like The Vanishing Half by @britrbennett