Creative Equity Toolkit

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Article

Screenshot showing an Aboriginal man with a yellow headband in front of a yellow protest banner

Explainer: what is systemic racism and institutional racism?

Article that unpacks issues around systemic and institutional racism, after Joaquin Phoenix called out systemic racism in this BAFTA acceptance speech.

'“Systemic racism”, or “institutional racism”, refers to how ideas of white superiority are captured in everyday thinking at a systems level: taking in the big picture of how society operates, rather than looking at one-on-one interactions.'

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  • 4.5 minute
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  • Published: 2020
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Mary Frances O'Dowd, The Conversation

Film

Explaining privilege to children through a race

Host Marc Fennell demonstrates the concept of privilege to the students through a race with the help of Olympian, Bendere Oboya. The ground-breaking school program is designed to provide a class of primary school students with the tools to identify racial bias and make positive change.

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  • 3 minute
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  • Published: 2023
    Country: Australia

  • Author: ABC iView, Marc Fennell, Bendere Oboya

Report

FECCA Position Paper: Best Practice for Countering Racism in Australia

FECCA's recommendations on the elements of an anti-racism policy, including focusing on covert racism, giving tools to people to act when they witness racism and challenging myths.

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  • 25 minute
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  • Published: 2010
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia

Article

Female artists earn less than men. Coming from a diverse cultural background incurs...

Artists all over the world, regardless of their gender, earn considerably less than professionals in occupations requiring similar levels of education and qualifications. But there’s an additional income penalty for artists who are female, as well as women of colour. However this is has some good news: The gender gap is not replicated among remotely practising First Nations artists in Australia.

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  • 5 minute
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  • Published: 2022
    Country: Australia

  • Author: David Throsby, Katya Petetskaya, Sunny Y. Shin

Support Network

Field

A 'journal of socially engaged criticism', Field looks at the relationship between art and social, political, economic and cultural spheres. It frequently looks at issues such as colonialism, displacement, gentrification, nationalism and resistance.

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  • Published: 2024
    Country: USA

  • Author: Field

Research

Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building

A monograph responding to how American community building can maintain or reinforce power inequities and racially-biased policies. Features definitions of community building, racism, internalised racism, white privilege; goals, process and strategies for interventions; and tips for evaluation and multi-racial partnerships.

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  • 60 minute
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  • Published: 2005
    Country: USA

  • Author: Maggie Potapchuk, MP Associates and Sally Leiderman, Center For Assessment And Policy Development