Race, Power and Prejudice

difference between ethnicity and race

Why are white and black listed as ethnicities?

When working through some feedback forms to tie up a funding grant, part of the information we asked of the participants was their ethnicity. Why do we ask for ethnicity? We ask for information about a persons ethnic group because we monitor who benefits from projects and services to ensure we’ve targeted the right demographic and to make …

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working with power in cohesion work

How to centre those with less power in cohesion work

There came a point throughout my work around cohesion that I stopped caring. Not about the goal or about people in general, but about the people whom our work was centred around; the people whose perceptions and judgements we thought we needed to change in order to achieve better cohesion and in turn benefit the realities of oppressed …

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white supremacy terrorism

When white supremacy is mainstream, is it time to focus on less tolerance, not more of it?

The playing out of the last few days since the terrorist attack against Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand has been really difficult to process.  A white supremacist terrorist and self described fascist, shot and killed over 50 Muslims in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, citing the president of the country with the third largest military …

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how to be an ally

How to be a better ally even when you feel marginalised

Allyship and being an ally are phrases often heard within social justice circles and from people that claim titles like liberal, woke or conscious. Sometimes it’s from people who have a conscious or subconscious desire to make up for years of being the opposite. Years of casual racism and intolerance. But what does it truly mean …

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what is gaslighting

How to identify and respond to gaslighting

When we talk about difficult topics we will almost definitely cross paths with people who are vocal in their disagreement of our perspective and position on that subject. By ‘difficult topic’, I mean something that people literally find hard to discuss because of their own social circumstances, ignorance or lack of understanding due to lack …

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