"Black people do not need allies. We need people to stand up and take on the problems borne of oppression as their own, without remove or distance.”
Gay, Roxanne, 2016. On Making Black Lives Matter.
Hopefully you have seen that @wellcometrust Culture, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team have an open call to bring on board 20 Associates to work with us as we continue to drive our EDI strategy.
Here's a bit more detail on what we are looking for...
#RLUK22 VIDEO | Addressing structural, cultural & digital inequalities of libraries
@karinenrose on ableism & politics of inclusivity
@MerrileeIAm@OCLC on vision for anti-racist reparative description practices
@Dr_Sarah_P on impact of digital poverty
https://t.co/I9fQi6foN5
To close the first day of #RLUK22 we have a panel on positive change and addressing inequalities in our libraries, chaired by Kate Price @QMlibrary & presentations by Karine Larose @GoldsmithsUoL , @MerrileeIAM@Dr_Sarah_P
Make The Library Loud by @tangledfibres addresses navigating the power structures of the library as a person of color with hearing loss. Michelle shares her insights on supporting library users with hearing loss by centering disabled BIPOC experience. https://t.co/vKhxPotb8T
A major part of how structural whiteness operates is it deputizes white ppl to behave as legal agents of the racist police state. White ppl are invited to participate in mass surveillance of nonwhite ppl, to monitor our motions & act w/ violence if we trespass into white space 1/
Frankie Chappell on intellectual contributions of black women to the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp - esp via Wages for Housework, a network devised by Salma James. Also King’s Cross Women’s Centre for Peace Collective. #AintIAWomanGoldsmiths2021 in collaboration with ICwS
Dr Shamara Alhassan: Rasta womanism created new discursive frameworks which put gender justice central to the Rastafari movement. At #AintIAWomanGoldsmiths2021 in collaboration with Institute of Commonwealth Studies
"The micro-management or overburdened with higher expectation to perform when compared to White peers. The subtly of being undermined, patronised, and gaslighted....."@Elizabe52012199
https://t.co/pOwm3NgOdc
Yep, sound familiar! 😞
Ahead of the start of Black History Month on Friday, my colleague, @Elizabe52012199 @GoldsmithsLib has written an excellent and inspiring blog on the experiences of Black women in HE.
https://t.co/pOwm3NgOdc
Sabina Nessa was murdered as she walked home. Why is this not top of the news. We should all be furious. After Sarah Everard we said #nomore yet dozens of women have been killed since then. When is this going to end? #sayhername https://t.co/9kB6lB3PjK