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The Room of Silence
Eloise Sherrid This video I have to admit, shock me to my core and has opened or re-opened some quite traumatic episodes I had as a student studying in France, UK or Netherlands, in university where I was sometimes the only black person in the classroom.Some passages still resonate and unleash in me a weird…
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Witness: unconscious bias
UCU This short video is very efficient with a very provocative format stating the unconscious bias for what is a “get out of jail” card that many people use to defend themselves from racism for example.The fact that there is still this term around despite the years of awareness of systemic racism is in fact…
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Hahn Tapper (2013) ‘A pedagogy of social justice education: social identity, theory and intersectionality’
I find this article fascinating as it resonates with my views and value as a practitioner, social designer and educator. I found this article laid out a lot of ideas or concepts, I had difficulties formulating. One of the teaching angles I try to apply regularly is to my lessons but also when writing new…
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Interview with Saffron Mustafa – Shades of Noir
This interview embodies perfectly some of the concepts discussed in the previous resource while giving a unique voice to someone affected by the question of faith, minority identity and intersectionality when it comes to identity, religion and beliefs while touching on the theme of discrimination. Here we get perfectly Modood’s passage in Religion in Britain:Challenges…
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Kwame Anthony Appiah Reith lecture on Creed
Kwame Anthony Appiah’s lecture was extremely interesting in the approach that Faith is both very personal and also influenced by its representation by media and stereotypes. Its interpretation can be fluid depending on the context, the familial context and the community where it is practised. “Religious identities so often connect us with the oldest stories”…
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Religion in Britain: Challenges for Higher Education
After reading Multiculturalism, Minority Identities and The Public Sphere, it was clear that we could question the notion of inclusivity and respect the “differences” in the University while there are still terms such as BAME applied to university statistics and shared every year. As a person of colour, I found Calhoon’s essay problematic as it…
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These three case studies make a particular echo to my life as a Black woman afro-descendant several aspects evocate resonate with similar experiences of racism, micro aggression and discrimination both in public/private life and the professional sphere.The reading was difficult and aswell familiar and this familiarity disturbs (or raise a colere sourde as we say…
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Deaf Accessibility for Spoonies: Lessons from Touring Eve and Mary Are Having Coffee’ by Khairani Barokka
One sentence stuck with me :Finally, I feel my pain is truly understood. This sentence echoes the idea that when pain is invisible, it cannot be fully understood or taken into account as a disability and would require extra explanation or convincing by the person suffering just echo with me and make me ask how…
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Confronting the Whitewashing Of Disability
This conversation looks at a very controversial hashtag to unravel the multiple layers of systemic racism and display perfectly the intersectionality through which one single person can be marginalized and discriminated against.This article brings to light the gaps in representation and the importance to have role models or reference through media as a step to…
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Christine Sun Kim
The first word that comes to mind for me is Fascinating.Christine Sun Kim’s work feels urgent and a breath of fresh air on the reflection on disability, this notion of ownership of the sound or the idea of what sound is – good sound – bad sound – annoying sound -pleasant sound etc…There is in…