Rescued from the Fire, by Abdullah Nazir Uhuru was given to me by a sister I’d met through work and was one of those books that sat on my shelf for months before I picked it up. When I finally did it was the type of read you don’t want to put down until you’ve finished. I related …
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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 …
Every so often one meme or another circulates attempting to define white privilege using simple and palatable concepts. One in particular reads that white privilege ‘doesn’t mean your life isn’t hard, it means your skin colour isn’t one of the things that makes it hard’, and I don’t disagree. But that’s only the very start of a …
The Hate U Give is a 2018 movie based on a novel by Angie Thomas. It’s an intense, upsetting and provocative film that should spark multiple conversations (or debates). Here’s what I thought of the movie. Minor spoilers below. The movie centres around a scene where a young black man is shot by a policeman …