Creative Equity Toolkit

Pardon your expression

Reaction to the announcement of a $150,000 grant for five emerging arts critics that went exclusively to white Australians.

'While the Herald is ready to acknowledge that the arts sector has a diversity problem and publishes suggestions on how to resolve the problem, it has no qualms about investing one hundred percent of its grant money from the Copyright Agency and the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas into exclusively developing the work of white Australian culture critics'

Paying Attention to White Culture and Privilege: A Missing Link to Advancing Racial Equity

An article examining recent trends by American philanthropic foundations focusing on diversity and inclusion. Advocates and provides tools for a further step in philanthropic investments and leadership: addressing white privilege and white culture through dialogue, reflection, and action on racial equity.

Pointless Diversity Training: Unconscious Bias, New Racism and Agency

Research into the effectiveness of unconscious bias training.

'The latest fashion of ‘unconscious bias training’ is a diversity intervention based on unproven suppositions and is unlikely to help eliminate racism in the workplace. Knowing about bias does not automatically result in changes in behaviour by managers and employees.'

#Publishingpaidme: authors share advances to expose racial disparities

Article on the #publishingpaidme movement which aims to highlight disparities in the payment of black and white authors. Nearly 3000 writers have disclosed their payment alongside demographic data.

'Malorie Blackman, the UK’s former children’s laureate and author of the Noughts and Crosses series, wrote that she had “never in my life received anything like the sums being posted by some white authors”.'