@dr_iwi@EqualitySusan Historically excluded? @CharBoultonNE used this term in a presentation at the AdvanceHE EDI conference earlier this year and I use it often now.
People from Bangladeshi and Pakistani backgrounds are over three times more likely to live in the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in the UK. Less than 25% of working-class people from Bangladeshi and Pakistani backgrounds make it into professional jobs.
YES! So pleased for her. Never before had I heard music as profoundly satisfying and unique as hers. Recommend all South Asian folx on here to give her a listen 🇵🇰
@_dxrxthy_ “We have a world where our learning, teaching and understanding of who or what is worthy…” - yeah, we (hate I have to use this plural pronoun) really paid attention :/
Cultural competency training can’t provide the experience of feeling confident that a healthcare professional can, if required, (correctly) recognise and address one’s cultural background. Homogenous Wellbeing services are not transcendent to this but rather, fails its students.
@_dxrxthy_ Fk! My heart goes out to you, Doz. I wonder if these structures rely on you being way too fking good for it - so as to be excused of never qwhite giving the due consideration you and other poc need. Notwithstanding that, you were, are, and will always be too good for ‘us’. <3
Islamophobia is not only rampant in the Conservative Party, it’s rife within British politics more widely.
So if you oppose Islamophobia, speak out when Muslim Labour colleagues and I raise it, not only when the Conservatives are guilty of it.
@D4NT4KY1 (original) virtue signallers with a shamelessly unbounded capacity to abnegate responsibility - feels awfully current within the empire loving, English polity today.
Of course, not least and sickeningly so, those academics who benefitted by willingly rejecting Williams’s thesis, perpetuating the idea that Britain, European economic growth had nothing to do with slavery & colonialism
Racism is not “contrary to the British tradition” — How many non-Black academics have been (unduly) credited to making any links between capitalism & slavery, off the back of this suppression? I wonder. https://t.co/7JVsiEu9kV
I reckon asking candidates underrepresented in your workforce — what their strengths are/why they are a ‘good fit’ — disadvantages them, as frankly the ones overrepresented have had the privilege of not dealing with an impostor syndrome; discussions at work!