Silence is violence: practical lessons in allyship
I cannot be the only brown woman who’s been flirting with total despair, watching the British media dust off its well-rehearsed script of complete denial every time the R word has been mentioned over these past few months. We now live against a backdrop where race “debates” have become a mainstay of the media circuit, […]
The Worrying Rise of the Well-Intentioned White Person™
My stomach lurched when I saw #CharitySoWhite trending on Twitter a few months ago. Having worked and volunteered in the sector intermittently for the past six years, the thread made for disappointingly validating scrolling. But whilst the stories shared caused a collective clutching of pearls among my white counterparts, I’d be lying if I said […]
